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In the 1960s, the world was literally choked with a musical wave from the British Isles: the number of rock and roll bands that conquered the musical Olympus is incalculable.

The euphoria around the Beatles was part of their live performances. February 9, 1964 The Beatles' first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show was watched by more than 70 million people. The Beatles tour in 1965 started at the stadium in New York - Shea Stadium became the most crowded venue for a musical event, there was a full house. The show became the most profitable in the history of the then show business. Similarly, the Beatles were met in ten other cities in the US and Canada.

When the Beatles attempted to replicate this success in 1966 by planning 13 cities on the tour, only stadiums were chosen as venues. While the tour was generally financially successful for the Beatles, some of the shows failed to sell. So, for example, Shea Stadium in New York was filled to 11,000 with a total of 55,600 seats. The Beatles' final show on August 26, 1966 in San Francisco included only 25,000 tickets out of an available 42,500, and its promoters lost money.

Beatlemania fatigue, John Lennon's controversial comments on various sensitive topics for Americans, and statements like "The Beatles are more popular than Jesus Christ" were probably not the least of the reasons for the drop in sales. Ultimately, after the incident at Dodger Stadium, the Beatles promised they would be done with touring. Forever and ever.

A month after the sensational Woodstock festival in August 1969, the Rolling Stones attempted an open-air repeat to complete their 1969 US tour.

The free concert, featuring Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and the Rolling Stones, was originally supposed to take place at San Jose State University, Golden Gate Park, and the Sears Point site, but each venue ended up turned out to be unsuitable. At the last minute, a venue owner in Altamont near Livermore, California offered his racing stadium as a concert venue.

The organization of the event took place in a short time, managers could not organize security, and as a result, after dark, the crowd became uncontrollable. A hallmark of the Altamont festival was an abundance of drugs and violence, including the murder of 18-year-old Meredith Hunter, as well as three accidental deaths: two people were hit by cars who fled after the incidents, and one drowned in an irrigation canal. The Grateful Dead, who originally planned to perform, refused to play at all due to the increase in violence.

Rolling Stone magazine later wrote, "It went so badly that the Grateful Dead, the main organizers and initiators of the festival, didn't even bother playing. The worst day in the history of rock and roll is December 6th, the day everything “ideally” went downhill.” In addition to serious property damage, many visitors were injured and many cars were stolen and then abandoned.

Hunter's mother sued the Rollings and demanded $10,000 in damages from them, and it wasn't until 2006 that the grave where Hunter was supposedly buried received a headstone.

Ringo Starr, or Richard Starkey, was born on July 7, 1940 in a family of workers from Liverpool. He worked literally from the cradle. At the age of six, he was hospitalized when inflammation of the appendix led to peritonitis and 12 weeks of coma. In total, Ringo was stuck in the hospital for a year. He did not do well at school, he was practically illiterate. Walked most of the time. At the age of thirteen, he came down with tuberculosis, which required another long stay in the hospital, where he entertained himself by playing homemade percussion instruments.

By the time he recovered, it was pointless to continue schooling, and at the age of sixteen he got his first job in the British railway system.

He was fired after failing a medical exam and was fired from his job as a ship's bartender for the same reason.

At seventeen, Ringo received his first set of hand drums from his stepfather and a job as a carpenter's apprentice. By 1960, Starr had become a member of one of Liverpool's most popular bands, the Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, a group looking good enough to get a three-month deal at a holiday park in Wales for £20 a week.

Unfortunately, Ringo had to choose between his carpentry and his musical career. Despite the pleas of his parents and fiancée, Ringo chose show business.

He would be torn between Wales, Hamburg and Liverpool for two years before accepting an offer to join the Beatles - and play with them for the first time eighteen days before the band's first EMI recording began on September 4, 1962.

Beatles producer George Martin was so disappointed with Ringo's performance that he had to replace him on the band's second record a week later, when Starr was only credited with the tambourine on "Love Me Do" and the maracas on "Please, please me". Starr should have been fired, but his Liverpool roots and easygoing nature did the trick - he was quickly adopted by the rest of the band and eventually became an integral part of the most famous quartet in the history of music.

Jimmy Miller, a legendary music producer who has been associated with many world-class musicians, but none of them has become cooler than the Rolling Stones.

The Rolling Stones, tired of trying to make the "psychedelic sound cooler than the Beatles", were ready to return to where they started and decided to work with Miller in 1968.

Together they would record "Beggars Banquet", "Let It Bleed", "Sticky Fingers", "Exile On Main Street" and "Goats Head Soup".

Miller was more than just a producer, contributing to the unique sound and occasionally playing various drums on various Rolling songs. Miller even appeared on You Can't Always Get What as "Mr. Jimmy", a song where he played drums.

Unfortunately, like many in the Rolling Stones' circle, Jimmy Miller fell victim to heroin use and the musicians parted ways in 1973. He would continue in the music industry and die of liver failure in 1994 at the age of 52.

An obituary in The New York Times listed several of Miller's surviving relatives, including "Sister Judith of New York."

Later, Miller's sister, Judith, as a staff correspondent, will write several articles for the newspaper, where she will tell that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction and chemical weapons", that he is able to start acting. Several members of the Bush administration, including Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice, will repeatedly quote Miller's journalism article in an attempt to justify the US invasion of Iraq.

Judith Miller will eventually be fired from The New York Times when it is revealed that her articles on Iraq were false and likely due to her association with Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff Lewis Libby. She was just being used... After Judith Miller was even detained because of her refusal to testify in the Valerie Plame case (also involving Libby).

In the great history of the Beatles, there is a page that, on the one hand, had a very negative impact on the relationship between the members of the group, on the other, perhaps most clearly demonstrated the clash of interests between art and big business. It's about a dramatic fight for the music publishing company Northern Songs Ltd. This treasury of the Beatles repertoire hides in its bins about 270 compositions written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney from 1963 to 1973, and brings in millions of dollars annually. Alas, the Beatles have long since lost control of their own songs.

Beatles manager Brian Epstein's amateurish decision was to give fifty percent of the initial publishing rights to a music publisher named Dick James. As a result, the British conglomerate ATV became the main owner of Northern Songs, until the Australian corporate raider Robert Holmes seized power in 1982 and took over Northern Songs.

Finally, the savior of the Beatles song catalog was Michael Jackson, who was informed by Paul McCartney of the value of the songs... Jackson was so engrossed in buying this asset that he not only raised the price to $47.5 million, but was ready to appear publicly at an Australian charity telethon and let Holmes' sixteen-year-old daughter choose one of the songs to which she retains ownership.

Although Robert Holmes presciently suggested "Yesterday", Catherine Holmes chose "Penny Lane", which she owns to this day. And Kathy's father died of a heart attack in 1990 at the age of 52.

Keith Richards' struggle with heroin began in the 1970s and lasted ten years. Coping with a serious addiction while touring and recording albums was quite a physical challenge, requiring numerous trips to rehab centers, constant medical examinations and monitoring.

At least, according to Rolling Stones memoirist Tony Sanchez in his book, "Richards even received treatment at an expensive Swiss clinic that promised a quick process of removing heroin from the blood through a complete blood transfusion."

Richards was allegedly in rehab during the 1973 tour. The story was told by Victor Bockris in Richards' 1992 biography, with great attention to medical detail.

However, during an interview, Richards admitted that he himself created the myth about his "rehab" - the musician was annoyed, trying to explain that he was coping with the drug problem, and came up with a story about the centers. He thought the legend was so ridiculous that no one would believe it. He was wrong!

On April 28, 1966, four violins, two cellos and two violas recorded the melody for the Lennon-McCartney song "Eleanor Rigby". The fee for eight musicians was paid according to the rate of the Union of Musicians and amounted to 9 pounds per brother. Although both Paul and John were in the studio, George Martin, who wrote the music, conducted the octet.

This would be the only Beatles song they didn't play on themselves. And also the first composition that does not contain the words "I, me, mine, you, you, yours", and the first Beatles song about a person in the third person. Although "Eleanor Rigby" peaked at number 11 on the US music charts, the song became number one on the "B" side of "Yellow Submarine", a much bigger hit at the time both songs were released.

The Beatles differed from most bands in the 1960s in that they wrote their own songs. On their early albums, the Rolling Stones recorded cover versions of songs written by other musicians. By the end of 1963, both groups knew each other, and when the Rollings were looking for new material to record, Paul McCartney suggested his newly written song "I Wanna Be Your Man", which the Rollings quickly recorded. Their second single was released on November 1, 1963.

Although this song was never on any albums or compilations, it turned out to be a real hit and gave the band the strongest momentum. The Beatles recorded "I Wanna Be Your Man" on their second album three weeks after the release of The Rolling Stones' single. And Ringo Starr sang it.

John Lennon recalled in 1980:

It was a one time song. There were only two versions of this song - Ringo and The Rolling Stones. It shows how important we thought it was: we wouldn't give them anything really worthwhile, would we?

Here is the only example of the interaction of two groups in the entire history of their existence.

When the Beatles released their "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album, listeners quickly jumped at the acronym supposedly hidden in the title of the song "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds". Given the overall psychedelic concept of what was going on, "L-S-D" was easy to read in an innocent title.

But John Lennon always said that LSD had nothing to do with the title of the song. Instead, he claimed that one day his four-year-old son, Julian, came home from kindergarten with an intricate pattern. John asked what it was and what the name of the drawing was, and the son quickly replied that it was a girl from his kindergarten, "Lucy... in the sky, with diamonds."

Lennon thought it was a brilliant title and quickly made a song with Paul McCartney, where he added a couple of phrases, because of which the track became a psychedelic classic. When John and Cynthia Lennon divorced in 1968, Julian lost touch with Lucy O'Donnell. Even as a teenager, Lucy was unaware of her role as the inspiration for one of the Beatles' major hits.

In 2009, when Lucy is diagnosed with lupus, Julian Lennon learns about her condition. He will be in constant contact with her until his death and will tell you that she is the same Lucy from the song.

At the end of September 2009, a long-lost drawing of Julian was bought at auction by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour.

Keith Richards is known as a man who repeatedly got into a variety of very serious troubles - from drug incidents to fires, traffic accidents and falling from a palm tree in Fiji, followed by an emergency flight to New Zealand, an operation that eliminated the consequences of a craniocerebral injury, and titanium screws for memory, with which they literally assembled, like a puzzle, the skull of an indefatigable musician.

But Richards himself claims that all this was nothing compared to what happened to him at a concert in Sacramento on December 3, 1965. Richards leaned over to sing in chorus one of the verses of the song, and his guitar came into contact with an ungrounded microphone. A flurry of sparks and an electric crack that sounded like a gunshot knocked the guitarist off his feet, and the discharge was so strong that the guitar strings simply melted.

The show was immediately halted and Richards was taken semi-conscious to the nearest emergency room. The only thing he remembered after the incident, one of the doctors said: "Well, he will either wake up or die." Another doctor opined that the rubber soles of Richards' new Hush Puppies shoes helped reduce stress and survive. Despite the Rolling Stones' panic, Richards came to his senses and played the next night in San Jose.

John Lennon left the home of his mother, Julia Lennon, and moved in with his aunt Mary "Mimi" Smith when he was five years old.

Julia and Mimi were two of the five sisters of Annie and George Stanley. Due to family disapproval, Julia secretly married merchant seaman Alfred Lennon in 1938 when she was twenty-four years old. The civil ceremony took place without the participation of the bride's family.

John Lennon was born on October 9, 1940 while his father was on a flight. Julia Lennon later gave birth to a daughter by another man, and in June 1945 she was taken in by a Norwegian couple. Until 1964, John Lennon would not even know about the existence of his sister.

When Julia Lennon began to live with John "Bobby" Dykins, 2 more girls were born. Julia Lennon never divorced Alfred Lennon and "lived in sin" with Dykins, Mimi aggressively disapproved of this behavior and convinced Julia to let her raise John.

Nevertheless, Mimi and John constantly communicated with Julia. Just after one of these encounters, on July 15, 1958, Julia Lennon was hit by a drunken police officer as she walked from Mimi Smith's house to the nearest bus stop.

At the age of 17, John Lennon was very upset by the death of his mother and never recovered from it. His music and lyrics largely reflect these emotions. And in honor of his mother, he named his first child, Julian.

In 1972, Rolling Stone magazine commissioned Truman Capote to accompany the Rolling Stones on one of the band's most successful and most infamous US tours. Mick Jagger had just married Bianca Macias in France in May 1971, and the couple began to cultivate a new "high society" style that was a serious challenge to the rest of the Rollings and a reason to behave indecently to say the least.

Capote traveled with his companion Lee Radziwill, Jackie Kennedy's sister, the Rolling Stones immediately nicknamed them "Trumpets" and "Princess Radish." Capote responded with mutual hostility: he spoke badly of the Rollings' music, behaved arrogantly, kept himself apart and did not much dream of getting backstage.

In Dallas, after Capote and Radziwill refused to participate in a night of drinking, Richards broke into Capote's room and painted ketchup all over the room... No wonder the sensitive Truman left the tour shortly after, and the article was never written.

John Lennon left Britain for good on August 31, 1971. Several reasons are given for deciding to move to New York, not least of which is the hostility of the British press towards Yoko Ono, especially her artistic activities, which was considered somewhat burdensome. Yoko was also in the middle of a U.S. legal battle to establish custody of her daughter from a previous marriage. In October 1971, the Yoko Ono exhibition in New York was to be held, and therefore a short stay in the USA seemed very appropriate for the couple.

They originally stayed at the St. Regis, and then realized that New York was a pretty nice city, which eventually influenced Lennon's decision to rent an apartment in Greenwich Village.

Unfortunately, the Nixon administration at this very moment began a long process to deport John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and it was obvious that if Lennon left the US during this process, he would never be able to return to the states.

John and Yoko successfully fought the U.S. government, they were eventually able to have their first child, Sean, become an American, and John himself was granted citizenship in 1976.

Once his immigration status was resolved, Lennon plunged into a period of seclusion, which ended in 1980. In early December 1980, in one of his weekly phone calls to Aunt Mimi Smith, John Lennon began discussing an imminent return to England. A few days later, on December 8, 1980, he died in New York, never returning to his homeland ...

Like many stars before them, the Rolling Stones were forced to leave Britain in the 1970s for reasons of tax breaks: paying 93% of the tax deductions from their fees seemed incredible.

So the four settled on the Cote d'Azur in France, where each of the members of the group settled in his villa. Keith Richards rented Villa Nellcote, in Villefranche-sur-Mer, a 16-room mansion and one of the most impressive homes in the area. The villa was used as the headquarters of the Gestapo during the war, and images of the swastika are still in the cellars.

It was the basement of the Rydards villa that was decided to be used as a recording studio. The equipment was put down and partially into the rooms. Produced by Jimmy Miller. The jams and rehearsals were mostly Richards, Taylor, Jimmy Miller and Bobby Case (on saxophone). Jagger came from Paris, where he lived with his pregnant wife. However, after six months of such work, the Rollings almost completely lost their expensive equipment and left the hospitable villa.

The mixing of the record was completed in 1972 in Los Angeles at Sunset Sound Studios. Double album Exile on Main St. released in May 1972. Many called the album the best creation of the Rollings. The villa stood empty for a long time, reminding the locals of Keith Richards's tumultuous time here. It is now owned by a Russian who denies any trace of the Rollings living in the mansion.

When John Lennon's aunt Mimi Smith's modest home in the suburbs of Liverpool became a pilgrimage destination for raucous fans, it was sold. Instead, Lennon bought his aunt a small bungalow in the south of England. Mimi Smith lived there until her death. And it was here that she was caught by a phone call, from which she learned that Johnny had died, and that he had not had time to rewrite the house in her name.

Legally, Yoko Ono was now the owner of the property, which greatly upset Mimi Smith - after all, Lennon's wife could at any time sell the house and drive the old aunt out of there.

However, until her death on December 6, 1991 at the age of 85, Mimi Smith lived here. What was the financial relationship between Yoko Ono and Mimi Smith after John's death remains unknown, but the house has gradually fallen into a terrible state in the last 10 years. Yoko Ono flew to Smith's funeral and put the house up for sale the same day. It was sold to a local developer and then demolished in 1994.

The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones(English "rolling stones" or "tumbleweeds") - a British rock band that formed on July 12, 1962 and competed in popularity with for many years. The Rolling Stones, an important part of the British Invasion, are considered one of the most influential and successful bands in rock history. The Rolling Stones, who, according to the plan of manager Andrew Loog Oldham, were to become a "rebellious" alternative to The Beatles, already in 1969 during the American tour were advertised as "the greatest band in the world" and (according to Allmusic), managed to maintain this status to this day. .

Influenced by Robert Johnson, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters, The Rolling Stones' musical style has taken on individual traits over time; the author duo Jagger-Richards eventually received worldwide recognition.

Facts about The Rolling Stones

1. The Rolling Stones have the world's most powerful Electro-Voice live set.
2. The image of bright red lips and a brazen protruding tongue, which became the trademark of The Rolling Stones, was not invented by Andy Warhol, as many mistakenly believe because of the first appearance of this logo on the cover of the 1971 album Sticky Fingers, designed by Warhol (and very non-standard: on the sleeve of the record were jeans from the waist to the knees with a real zipper, under which the buyer found the very protruding tongue), and by a lesser known designer John Pash in 1970.
3. It is widely believed that Mick Jagger is the author of the world-famous phrase "Sex, drugs and", but in fact it belongs to Ian Dury.
4. The song "Sympathy for the Devil" was written under the influence of Mikhail Bulgakov's book "The Master and Margarita". Before writing the song in 1966, Mick Jagger himself imagined himself to be none other than Woland, but the book was only translated into English (Marianne Faithful gave Mick this book).
5. On the cover of the album "Sgt. Pepper "s Lonely Hearts Club Band" of the group is depicted, including a rag doll with the inscription: "Welcome the Rolling Stones".
6. In the video for The Rolling Stones song "Anybody Seen My Baby", Angelina Jolie had one of the first roles in her acting career.
7. World's first Rolling Stones museum built in Germany
8. Already at the age of nine, Keith Richards sang for the first time in front of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain - as part of a children's choir that performed at her coronation ceremony in 1953.
9. Once Jones, Jagger and Bill Wyman publicly peed on the wall of a gas station, for which they were arrested; at the photo sessions, the musicians dressed up in provocative women's dresses.
10. In 1968, Mick Jagger tried his hand at cinema, starring in the cult film "Performance" directed by Nicholas Reg, which was released only in 1970.
11. A concert in Hyde Park, two days after the death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones in 1969, attracted more than 250,000 spectators. During the show, Jagger released several thousand white butterflies into the sky.
12. The portrait of Mick Jagger appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine a record number of times - 15. The first time it happened on August 10, 1968 in the 50th issue.
13. The Rolling Stones earned the most for an advertising campaign: Microsoft paid the group $8 million to perform the hit "Start Me Up" in a commercial for Windows 95.
14. In their 42nd year of existence, The Rolling Stones, record holders of longevity in rock music, embarked on one of the longest Bigger Bang tours of their career, lasting 14 months. The group donated $1 million of their royalties to the Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund.
15. The Rolling Stones top the list of the highest paid artists and bands in the world for private performances.
16. Keith Richards has about 3,000 guitars in his collection, but currently only plays ten. He plans to open a museum of his guitars.
17. The 1994 album Voodoo Lounge brought The Rolling Stones their first two (and so far last) Grammy Awards. It was named the best rock album, and the video for the song "Love Is Strong" was named the best short video.
18. Guitarist Keith Richards, who celebrated his 60th birthday in 2003, was called the biggest brawler in the history of rock music by viewers of VH1. As a consistent conductor of the principle "sex, drugs, rock and roll", he is ahead of such competitors as Ozzy Osbourne, Tommy Lee and the Gallagher brothers.
19. The records of many famous rock bands ( , ) were recorded in the band's mobile studio, known as the Rolling Stones Mobile.
20. The Rolling Stones performed twice in Russia: August 11, 1998 in Moscow, just before the default, and July 28, 2007 in St. Petersburg.
21. When playing the role of Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, Johnny Depp tried to imitate the walk and manner of speaking of Keith Richards, who is one of his favorite musicians. In the film "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End", at the request of Depp, the musician played the father of Jack Sparrow - Captain Teague.
22. The song "She's a Rainbow" was used in advertising for Sony products.
23. In 2005, the song "Angie" was used by the Democratic Union of Germany in Angela Merkel's election campaign. Interestingly, without permission from The Rolling Stones or their agents. However, the legal issues of the party managed to settle with the German copyright management agency.

An Illustrated History of Rock Music by Pascal Jeremy

Rolling Stones - the more disgusting the better

Compare the deep and favorable impression left by the Beatles at the Palladium in 1963 with that Rolling Stones in the same place in 1967. According to a long tradition, in the finale of this show, all participants climbed onto the carousel, grimacing idiotically and waving their hands in front of TV cameras. The Beatles have already ridden this carousel. And the Rolling Stones… This is what the Daily Mirror wrote on January 23, 1967: “Last night there was a scandal at the London Palladium: the Rolling Stones refused to ride the traditional carousel at the end of the Sunday TV show. The scandal began 2 hours before the start of the show, during rehearsals. "They insult me ​​and everyone in general," shouted the director of the show, Mr. Albert Locke. Mick Jagger said after the show, "The carousel is not an altar, it's bullshit."

Could this scowling young man be as popular as Paul McCartney? Is his group second only to the Beatles? And could they achieve such popularity by annoying adults, insulting the authorities and generally spitting on everyone and everything? They could and indeed did.

Rolling Stones were the second head of the two-headed pop creature of the 60s. Compare two clippings from the same newspaper, the Daily Mirror, which has the largest circulation in England. When the prim right-wing Daily Telegraph denounced Beatlemania sternly, the Mirror was quick to defend the shaggy foursome: "You have to be a very stupid retrograde not to like the crazy, noisy, funny, beautiful Beatles." A year later, in August 1964, the same Mirror itself acted as a stupid retrograde, smashing the Rolling Stones: “British parents are now unanimous in their hostility to these shaggy personalities. They symbolize rebellion against parents." The Stones and the Beatles were at opposite ends of the spectrum, and the press did everything to oppose them, trying to downplay and gloss over any wrongdoings of the Beatles and exaggerate the slightest deviation of the Stones from recognized norms. They were probably shocked to learn that the Stones and the Beatles are good buddies, and that the Beatles even helped their "rivals" early on in their careers by giving them the song "I Wanna Be Your Man."

And yet, from the very beginning, there was a serious style difference between these two groups. While the Beatles drew their inspiration from rock and roll and smooth black music, the Stones looked to the earlier, rawer tradition of the blues and, especially, rhythm and blues.

Both bands followed much the same path early on, playing in small clubs in front of a clique of their fans and gradually expanding their circle of fans. But the Beatles started earlier and learned faster. They reluctantly, but still compromised - if not in music, then in clothes, crammed into stylish suits, although they felt uncomfortable in them. As John said: “We were ashamed that we were in suits and so clean. We were afraid that our friends would consider us traitors, however, this was partly true.

When Stones manager Andrew Oldham suggested that they change into neat, clean suits for their first TV appearance on the very prestigious Thank You Lucky Star program to promote their debut CD, Come On, he was met with furious resistance. The Stones just couldn't imagine themselves in the same neat suits. Oldham pleaded, “We have to compromise. TV is not used to people like you. If you come in the same clothes that you perform in clubs, you will not even be allowed into the building.

He managed to win them over. But that didn't help either. A letter from one TV viewer appeared in the newspaper: “I have been watching TV for a long time, but I have never seen such a vile spectacle as the Rolling Stones.” Then Oldham decided: seven troubles - one answer, abandoned attempts to remake the Stones and began to build their public image just on their "vileness". When later asked by a reporter what attracted him to the Stones, he replied, “The music. Sex. The fact that in a few months the public will get fed up with the Beatles and demand something else. I felt that a certain part of the public was hungry for the opposite of the Beatles. The Stones were such an antipode ... In those years, the mass media inspired the public: you could invite the Beatles to your place for tea, but not the Stones.

Based on this cunning message, Oldham, with the active help of his wards, did everything to present them in the most bad light possible. Long before Johnny Rotten and his fellow Sex Pistols defied public morality, Jagger, Bill Wyman and Brian Jones were tried and fined for defiant behavior by urinating on a gas station wall.

During 1963, as the Beatles soared higher and higher, the Stones drew attention not to their music or even Jagger's disturbing stage manner, but to their "Neanderthal" appearance and antisocial behavior. Their first single was a solid, very "raw" version of the little-known Chuck Berry song "Come On" ("Come on"). What to choose for the next single, they did not know. The fact is that they needed a hit that would allow them to gain a foothold in the twenty and win wider recognition. There was nothing suitable in their rhythm and blues repertoire. And then they gratefully accepted the song “I Wanna Be Your Man” from the Beatles, despite Jagger’s caustic remarks that if the Beatles “sold out”, then they themselves are not going to “serving in front of aristocrats who dream of dressing us in terry suits and cutting our hair.” us hair."

"I Wanna Be Your Man" ("I Wanna Be Your Man") is a song from the album "WITH THE BEATLES", where it was performed by Ringo. This is fast, but rather artificial and sugary rock. For the Stones, it was, in fact, a compromise - one they swore never to make. The song was a hit, climbed into the Top 20, and the Stones began their long, controversial, sometimes tragic, but always exciting career. They got into the highest echelons of glory.

In February 1964, the Stones released their third single, which finally established their star status. "Not Fade Away" was the song on the back of Buddy Holly's hit single "Oh Boy". Holly played it in his usual bubbling, hiccupping style, but the Stones worked it out their own way, breaking the melody into staccato chords, adding a wailing blues harmonica (despite the critics' attack, it was still popular!) and heightening the roughness with Jagger's sloppy, slurred voice. .

The sound attracted attention, but it was not the novelty of the sound that attracted the Stones, but Jagger's unusual stage style: his fluid body movements and overtly sexual poses. This annoyed many, but most of the public was delighted. Actually, these were the attempts of a third-rate comedian trying to stir up the audience. The press and other mass media brought down streams of abuse on Jagger. It seemed that all adult England was seized by anti-Stone fever. Journalist Maureen Cleave, a chronicler of many pop events of the 60s, once described Jagger very correctly: “His wild appearance, long hair, huge mouth, slender hips, caricatured girlish face - all this was perceived differently by different people. He was unsociable, impudent, no one knew anything about him, he just stood there, leaving everyone to build their own theories about him.

The image was obvious: aggressiveness, coldness, ugliness. But teenagers liked it. Hits followed one after another: in 1964 "It's All Over Now" and "Little Red Rooster" came out - both of which were reworkings of American rhythm and blues numbers. The only thing the Stones lagged behind the Beatles in was that they didn't write their own material. But in 1965, Jagger and Keats Richard rectified the situation by writing "The Last Time", and then - "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" - "(I Can't Get) Satisfaction" - magnificent in causticity and causticity. (There are few satirical lines in the history of pop as compact and poignant as this: "This man tells me, 'Your shirt could be whiter!' This is not my man - he smokes a different brand of cigarettes.") by Stone Skip

The Rolling Stones Since 1964, the Rolling Stones have been considered the best party music. Their infectious melodies made everyone rise and dance. The band's lack of contemporary hits in no way reflected on their popularity. As long as Mick, Keith and Charlie can stand,

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Those who do not know such mastodons of the world rock scene as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones can turn around and leave right now. But if you are a reasonable person who has lived in an apartment with a TV for at least a week, then you 100% must have heard the names of these great bands. If you are a fan of their work, then you must have seen their photos more than once, but these are unlikely. While a huge number of photographers spent kilometers of film to sell these photos to fans and representatives of the media, there were pictures that their manager kept in his piggy bank priceless historical footage. Tour manager Bob Bonis kept photos of the Beatles and Rolling Stones tour from 1964-1966 for a long time to suddenly appear in 2015 and offer them to anyone who wants to buy them on eBay. The auction will feature around 5,000 photographs, most of which have never been made available to the general public. We invite you to take a look at the most interesting pictures of the very first tour of the Beatles and other tours from 1964 to 1966 in the USA, which were accompanied by Mick Jagger and his "rolling stones".

Upon arrival, the Beatles went straight to the Hollywood Bowl Hotel, only to be surprised to find that their reservation had been canceled as the management decided that the rabid fans would simply smash the hotel to smithereens. Fortunately, the musicians were offered to stay in their mansion (pictured) by actor Reginald Owen. The Beatles stayed at the mansion for exactly 4 days, after which they set off on the next stop of the tour.

McCartney and Lennon prepare to perform backstage, Detroit, Michigan on August 13, 1966

John Lennon during practice with George Harrison, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 16, 1966

John Lennon performing in Portland, Oregon, 1965

Young Keith Richards and Mick Jagger pose for a photo

Paul McCartney on a flight from St. Louis, Missouri to New York, where they were scheduled to perform at Shea Stadium on August 23, 1966

Mick Jagger in front of a packed house during a performance

John Lennon, wearing his signature glasses and striped jacket, rests backstage at Shea Stadium, New York, on August 24, 1966.

Paul Macartney reading a newspaper on an airplane

Paul McCartney smiles for the camera during a concert at a packed arena in Bloomington, Minnesota on August 21, 1965.

Mick Jagger in tight red swimming trunks at the Betsy Hotel in Miami during the band's US tour

Due to the Beatles mania at the time in the United States, for the Beatles their very first tour turned out to be extremely successful, which cannot be said about the Rolling Stones, who called their tour nothing but a "disaster".