Genres: Rock & Roll, Blues-Rock, Hard Rock, Early Pop/Rock, British Invasion, Psychedelic, Contemporary Pop/Rock, British Blues, Album Rock, British Psychedelia, AM Pop, Dance-Rock, Regional Blues Active: 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's Formed: April 1962 in London, England
Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, Rev. Gary Davis, Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Everly Brothers, Alexis Korner, Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Elvis Presley, John Lee Hooker, Arthur Alexander, James Brown, Robert Johnson, Peter Tosh, Bob Dylan Rod Stewart, Little Feat, John Mayall, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Them, Gram Parsons, The Beatles, The Animals, The Who, The Yardbirds, The Pretty Things, The Kinks, The Georgia Satellites, J. Geils Band, Jeff Beck, Manfred Mann, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Long John Baldry World Party, The Smithereens, Doug Sahm, Mitch Ryder, The Replacements, Puppies, Redd Kross, The Ramones, ? & the Mysterians, Pussy Galore, Social Distortion, The Who, The Troggs, That Petrol Emotion, Ten Years After, T. Rex, The Stranglers, Rod Stewart, Bruce Springsteen |  |
By the time the Rolling Stones began calling themselves the World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the late '60s, they had already staked out an impressive claim on the title. As the self-consciously dangerous alternative to the bouncy Merseybeat of the Beatles in the British Invasion, the Stones had pioneered the gritty, hard-driving blues-based rock & roll that came to define hard rock. With his preening machismo and latent maliciousness, Mick Jagger became the prototypical rock frontman, tempering his macho showmanship with a detached, campy irony while Keith Richards and Brian Jones wrote the blueprint for sinewy, interlocking rhythm guitars. Backed by the strong yet subtly swinging rhythm section of bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts, the Stones became the breakout band of the British blues scene, eclipsing such contemporaries as the Animals and Them.
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Release: November 17, 2009
Label: Pride
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Release: June 9, 2009
Label: Promotone
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