Why the Rolling Stones are the greatest rock band ever

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Why the Rolling Stones are the greatest rock band ever

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Founded in 1962 the Rolling Stones are one of the most famous rock groups in the world.
Leading the British Invasion of bands that became popular in the US in the 60s, The Rolling Stones are stage legends embodying the "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll" lifestyle.
Especially during the late 1960s, no other band came to embody the image of the hedonistic rock band more than the Stones. Groupies and heavy drug use were par for the course.
Even today, they keep on rolling: The Stones are still touring, 60 years after the band played their first-ever gig, at London's Marquee Club on July 12, 1962. The idea of a farewell tour popped up a few times, but they kept on rocking. Despite their age, they never failed to put on spectacular shows.
This Arts Unveiled episode dives into the Stones' Cosmos and digs deeper into how the Rolling Stones became so legendary. We have spoken to fans, music journalist Ernst Hofacker and documentary filmmaker Clare Tavernor and dug up some interviews from our archive to understand what makes the Stones timeless legends.
0:00 Intro
1:38 Musical innovation
6:31 Their rowdy, rebellious style
10:29 The cultural influence
14:18 An inspiration to other bands in other genres
15:33 Their great live shows
17:49 A history with many twists of fortune
22:48 Conclusion
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@danielmeara9376 10 ай бұрын

The Stones, hands down, hands that held the drum sticks, that played open tuning guitar; and voice that strutted the essence of wondrous rock and roll.

@thomaspage8621 Жыл бұрын

The Rolling Stones, always.

@RollingStoneZzzzz 10 ай бұрын

I saw the Stones and the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in 64. I always liked them. However 🤔 when I started to play their music on guitar thats when I recognized the genius of Keith and his guitar work. I was there to see it ALL!...The Stones...The Greatest Rock and Roll Band...Ever!❤😉👍🏻

@roddyd5673 Жыл бұрын

The Rolling Stones were, are and always will, be the Greatest Rock and Roll band in the world.

@gogoyubari366 Жыл бұрын

And The Beatles.

@mikebarooshian7255 Жыл бұрын

@@gogoyubari366 not The Beatles there overrated the best bands are The Rolling Stones and The Dave Clark 5

@freakbennett2263 Жыл бұрын

NŰFF SĂĮD, jűs sāyīn !😎✌️😎!

@Paul_G73 8 ай бұрын

@@gogoyubari366 🤣

@Luthermutt_Notwell 8 ай бұрын

@@gogoyubari366Better than Beatles, one which most were rubbish and dull by today's standards.

@stevencalhoun8723 11 ай бұрын

Greatest Band of all time 🎉❤🎸 🎸🎸

@Mikevdog 11 ай бұрын

Charlie Watts didn't agree

@Paul_G73 8 ай бұрын

@@Mikevdog Charlie Watts said he wouldn't play for any other band.

@Luthermutt_Notwell 8 ай бұрын

@@MikevdogThe Drummer Ringo Starr is an amiable, likeable scouser. Unfortunately, what he is not is a good drummer. In fact, he wasn’t even the best drummer in The Beatles. I’ve heard all the revisionist nonsense about Ringo’s abilities over the last few years, but that’s all it is: nonsense. By contrast, Charlie Watts was a fantastic drummer. His minimalist style in The Rolling Stones often hid his natural jazz style, but what he did in the Stones is always, always perfect.

@RicksterGbot 8 ай бұрын

@@MikevdogCharlie Watts did. Beatles troll. 🧌

@dindjarin7185 8 ай бұрын

Beatles were a bubblegum pop band. Their albums were overproduced .

@mikedem755 11 ай бұрын

Stones are the greatest!

@vuk96zj 10 ай бұрын

Still putting out masterpieces (Sweets Sounds of Heaven). Can't wait to hear the rest of the new album

@albrechtkonrad5496 11 ай бұрын

As you named it already! would please welcome the ROLLING STONES!!!

@dedehook304 11 ай бұрын

The ROLLING STONES for ever

@maryettamoody5079 9 ай бұрын

From Mississippi. Love muddy waters love stones been in my life sense Ed Sullivan in 60 loved the old honkry tonkmusicft Miss love the stones best band ever my husband age

@mathstar4176 4 ай бұрын

After their founder Brian Jones died, the band kept going, in 2024 they are still going. God bless them, they are such a thrill. " Darling did you get a thrill ?" She said Yeah!!! How British..........❤❤❤

@NewarkBay357 4 ай бұрын

The Rolling Stones, forever.

@jeremywanner4526 2 ай бұрын

Zeppelin,I love the stones as well.Zeppelin just moves me more.

@SargonofQueens Ай бұрын

They lasted ten years.

@bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477 Жыл бұрын

DW with the impartial take as always

@Luthermutt_Notwell 8 ай бұрын

Beatles THEIR ALBUMS WERE RIDICULOUSLY OVERPRODUCED.

@SargonofQueens 9 ай бұрын

Not arguably. The Rolling Stones are the best rock n roll band in the world. What other groups have achieved this kind of accomplishment? Have a hit album in all six decades? They outlasts all of them. The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Guns N’ Roses, Queen were good rock groups, but they all short lived. They are the GOAT.

@jamesgordon2805 8 ай бұрын

Only thing is the Beatles did more in 8 years than the Stones have done in 60 years and the Stones are still playing second fiddle to the Beatles as they always have done!

@SargonofQueens 8 ай бұрын

@@jamesgordon2805 That’s your opinion. The truth is the Beatles are gone. Ceased to exist.

@jamesgordon2805 8 ай бұрын

@bijindesu7784 And they have just had the biggest selling vinyl this century! They may be physically split up 53 years but they will never be gone. And their back catalogue is still the best that rock music has ever produced!. That's generally regarded as a fact not an opinion!

@SargonofQueens 8 ай бұрын

@@jamesgordon2805 That doesn’t say they are the greatest rock n roll band in the world now. They are gone! Gone! Gone!

@jamesgordon2805 8 ай бұрын

@@SargonofQueens The Beatles will never be gone. Their musical legacy will always be here

@hudsonsilver4482 Ай бұрын

To me beatles off course

@trajan6927 Ай бұрын

The Stones deserve title greatest rock n roll band of the last 60 yrs. The Who are greatest live band the last 60 yrs. The Beatles band of the 60's, most successful and influential. Zep band of the 70's. Stones greatest concert draw.

@Aristipp-ng5fu 7 күн бұрын

After all this time there is no need any more to state the obvious.

@RicksterGbot 8 ай бұрын

Beatles were a bubblegum pop band. Their albums were overproduced .

@DWHistoryandCulture 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us and our community.

@RicksterGbot 8 ай бұрын

Let’s face it. Lennon and McCartney were good with a melody, but certainly weren’t the musical geniuses everyone thinks. A large percentage of the arrangements and innovative instrumentation were down to their producer, George Martin. Strip away a lot of that stuff, and many of the songs don’t stand up anywhere near as well as the best of The Stones.

@DWHistoryandCulture 8 ай бұрын

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@Luthermutt_Notwell 8 ай бұрын

The Beatles may have been a fairly good live band, but they threw a strop somewhere around 1965 because the screaming was too loud, and they couldn’t hear themselves properly. The Stones would have just bought bigger amps. Let’s face it, from the footage available, it’s clear that The Beatles weren’t anywhere near the Stones league as a live band. The Stones were, probably even still, the greatest live act in rock n’ roll.

@DWHistoryandCulture 8 ай бұрын

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@fredricclack7137 Жыл бұрын

🚫!!! TOOL; LZ; 🐝😂

@luciensartikilledjohnf.ken1689 7 ай бұрын

(cough) Led Zeppelin (Cough)

@Luthermutt_Notwell 8 ай бұрын

Find Let it Bleed is thousands times better than Let it Be. Keep crying, Lennon boy fans.

@DWHistoryandCulture 8 ай бұрын

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@fredricclack7137 Жыл бұрын

🐝 Copiers 🚫 as 👍😆

@jonnyhead Жыл бұрын

English woman "Yknow yknow yknow yknow yknow yknow" 😅

@rudrohalder210 Жыл бұрын

I dislike this a lot.

@RicksterGbot 8 ай бұрын

John lennon used to beat them up.

@dindjarin7185 8 ай бұрын

John Lennon is the greatest wife beater of all time. ❤️

@toddbyrnes2199 15 күн бұрын

By far The Rolling Stones are the Greatest Rock and Roll band in the world EVER. They never quit they never gave up the torch

@Mikevdog 11 ай бұрын

They really broke up in the 80's and came back. They weren't together the whole 60 years and some have died.

@stephenkerensky710 9 ай бұрын

Wasn`t Altamont overshadowed by the Charles Manson Clan mass-murder?

@Luthermutt_Notwell 8 ай бұрын

Helter Skelter lyrics blood over walls. Those beatles fellas should be in prison as well.

@thinthin54 9 ай бұрын

After The Beatles broke up, the stones became the greatest band in the world.😁😛😜🤪

@kavilavano4433 9 ай бұрын

@Paul_G73 8 ай бұрын

@@kavilavano4433 Stones are better than beatles. Listening wise. 🎶

@RicksterGbot 8 ай бұрын

Beatles were bubblegum pop music

@dindjarin7185 8 ай бұрын

Beatles were a bubblegum pop band. Their albums were overproduced .

@Luthermutt_Notwell 8 ай бұрын

Harrison was an awful guitarist. Beatles couldn't play their instruments at all. Ponces. 😂

@gagardtaer7670 Жыл бұрын

😮😮whattt!! Juan de la Cruz band!! Not rolling stones 🤣😂🤣

@rangers94ism Жыл бұрын

Why do Rolling Stones fans have to lie about the Beatles in order to validate their favorite band? The Beatles were never clean cut. When they came to the US critics complained about the length of their hair. Later they wrote a song with the lyrics, "you better run for your life if you can little girl, hide your head in the sand little girl, catch you with another man that's the end little girl." As for 'dirty' sounding songs, I guess you never heard of the White album that is chock-full of them. Revolution 1, Helter Skelter, and Everybody's Got something to hide except for me and my monkey. Please stop pretending that the Stones didn't copy the Beatles on every album. It's pathetic

@pavlovdog3906 Жыл бұрын

Beatles are not a rock band.

@mikebarooshian7255 Жыл бұрын

@@pavlovdog3906 the Beatles are overrated who ever thinks the Beatles are the best has poor taste in music The Rolling Stones are the best who ever Doesn’t like the stones they don’t like music

@RICHBLACKCOCK Жыл бұрын

@@mikebarooshian7255 U r clearly delusional.

@encoreunefois1X 11 ай бұрын

Why do many Beatles fans and many Stones fans have this dogmatic view that you can only be a fan of one of them? Victims of silly media campaigns over the years. I love them both. The Beatles were better at some things IMO such as songwriting. The Beatles never had the swagger and drive of the Stones. They are different in manty ways and quite similar in others. You may not like both or you may prefer one over the other but it reeks of bitterness and insecurity to feel one has to try to put the other down, in my most humble opinion that is.

@alejandroalvarez9971 9 ай бұрын

"Yer blues" is Beatles copying the Stones. Sweet dreams

@Imsteppenwolf 9 ай бұрын

So the Stones are the greatest rock band ever because of their longevity as a band? They stopped evolving early into the game. Will never be close to the Beatles. Just listen to Rubber Soul and what the Stones made around that time. Then, you listen to Revolver and compare it to what the Stones made around the same time... and on and on, all the way till Abbey Road. No comparison, at all...

@DWHistoryandCulture 9 ай бұрын

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@Luthermutt_Notwell 8 ай бұрын

The Beatles Wrote the Worst Song Ever…Official In 2004, a BBC released poll voted Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, the worst song ever. That’s because it is. Although Octopuses’ Garden runs it close…and Hello, Goodbye isn’t exactly the work of genius either.

@Luthermutt_Notwell 8 ай бұрын

Harrison was an awful guitarist. Beatles couldn't play their instruments at all. Ponces. 😂

@RicksterGbot 8 ай бұрын

Beatles were an overrated bubblegum pop band.

@jamesgordon2805 8 ай бұрын

Well said mate. I love the Stones but there not in the same league as the Beatles and they never!

@jamesgordon2805 10 ай бұрын

The Beatles are still the biggest selling band of all time. And still called the greatest and most influential band ever.

@Paul_G73 8 ай бұрын

Being the biggest selling band doesn't make you better. Mister Blobby sold more #1 songs than Led Zeppelin and The Who combined. Does it make him better.

@jamesgordon2805 8 ай бұрын

@@Paul_G73 Regarding Mr Blobby Zeppelin and the Who it certainly does not, but that doesn't alter the fact that that the Beatles ARE the biggest selling band ever and ARE often called the greatest and most influential band ever, a band with a back catalogue that is unmatched by anyone.

@Paul_G73 8 ай бұрын

@@jamesgordon2805 It's opinions, really. I'm not a fan of these "the most..." "The best..." Arguments, anyway. It's really naive and ignorant to assume any artist holds paramount. I often find most of these arguments are fuelled by an individuals perspective taste, so it's often personal and not universal. Particularly with the Beatles as many proclaim them as the greatest or most relevant in a number of areas on a regular basis due to their success. Before any Beatlemaniacs attack me, let me state that I don't believe anyone deserves that status on any part of music. What happens if Garth Brooks takes over sale units from Beatles and if Taylor Swift continues, she will have more album sales and #1 than Beatles.

@Luthermutt_Notwell 8 ай бұрын

@@jamesgordon2805 The Beatles may have been a fairly good live band, but they threw a strop somewhere around 1965 because the screaming was too loud, and they couldn’t hear themselves properly. The Stones would have just bought bigger amps. Let’s face it, from the footage available, it’s clear that The Beatles weren’t anywhere near the Stones league as a live band. The Stones were, probably even still, the greatest live act in rock n’ roll.

@jamesgordon2805 8 ай бұрын

@paulg6302 Good points mate! The thing is the Beatles completely changed the whole course of popular music, you only have to listen to it before 1962 and then listen to it in 1970 when the Beatles split up, it was a completely different musical landscape!. Even if Garth Brooks or Taylor Swift eventually outsold the Beatles I don't think anybody would be silly enough to say their better than the Beatles! In fact the last time I looked the Beatles are still miles in front of everyone. It's the Beatles music that is timeless which is why every generation gets it, they have done every genre imaginable from Pop to Folk to country to Jazz to Blues, to ballads to psychedelic to Heavy metal to Avant-garde. They went out when they were on top and left a body of work that has been covered by everyone from Sinatra to Oasis! There have been great bands from The Stones to Led Zeppelin who I also like but the Beatles musical output leaves them all in the shade and what's more astounding is that they accomplished all this in 8 years!

@Shuvra161 Жыл бұрын

Everyone knows the beatles were the greatest.hell even jagger knows that😂

@Paul_G73 8 ай бұрын

Beatles 😂 aye okay, buttercup.

@Shuvra161 8 ай бұрын

@@Paul_G73 brian jones literally ripped off the beatles in broad daylight.. only short sighted stones fan can ignore this fact.

@Paul_G73 8 ай бұрын

@@Shuvra161 Brian Jones didn't. He wanted an r & b type of band.. Plus, Beatles weren't famous when Stones started. Can't ignore the facts.

@Shuvra161 8 ай бұрын

@@Paul_G73 man you're more stoned out than kieth and David bowie combined. Get some sense man. You're embarrassing yourself.

@Luthermutt_Notwell 8 ай бұрын

@@Shuvra161The Novelty Songs When you’re five or six years old, ‘Yellow Submarine’, ‘When I’m Sixty Four’, ‘Here Comes The Sun’ and the like are fantastic songs. In pretty much the same way as ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb’ is fantastic poetry. The fact is, though, that The Beatles novelty songs are, frankly, embarrassing. They’re generally awful music hall pastiche with - in far too many cases - the tone deaf Ringo singing. The Stones avoided this trap and thank God for that.

@starsright4872 Жыл бұрын

Never rated Rolling Stones since after 1969. After the death of Brian Jones they went down hill so fast and let's be honest they never had any decent hits after. Jones was the innovator and real brains and a real fresh of ideas person. This group were basically shite, wind and total crap after that. I do wish they would stop playing. It was all over more than 50 years ago.

@RICHBLACKCOCK Жыл бұрын

@starsright4872 The ROLLING STONES died on JULY 3 1969. COTCHFORD FARM.

@Mikevdog 11 ай бұрын

And, the disco period. Ughhhh.

@encoreunefois1X 11 ай бұрын

The period between 1968 and 1972-3 is widely considered one of the most significant runs of albums in all of pop-rock history. I guess it takes all sorts to make a world..

@albrechtkonrad5496 11 ай бұрын

So they went down that hill around 55 years??? It must be a huge hill 🤣😂🤣

@Luthermutt_Notwell 8 ай бұрын

@arkg8597 Жыл бұрын

The Beatles is #1, not roooooling stoooooones

@robertgutierrez1864 Жыл бұрын

Who ?

@mikebarooshian7255 Жыл бұрын

@@robertgutierrez1864 The Rolling Stones and The Dave Clark 5

@encoreunefois1X 11 ай бұрын

The Beatles were better songwriters but they weren't really a rockband. By some measures, you could easily claim the Stones are No.1 but this is also true of Led Zepplin, perhaps Pink Floyd, and I'm sure there are others. Where do we place Bob Dylan? He did blues, folk, rock n roll. What about AC/DC? How can we compare them to the Beatles or Queen.? You like what you like, no point in being all delicate because you don't agree with the assertion that the Stones are No.1. Maybe they are but probably not. Let's all just relax.

@Paul_G73 8 ай бұрын

It's opinions, really. I'm not a fan of these "the most..." "The best..." Arguments, anyway. It's really naive and ignorant to assume any artist holds paramount. I often find most of these arguments are fuelled by an individuals perspective taste, so it's often personal and not universal. Particularly with the Beatles as many proclaim them as the greatest or most relevant in a number of areas on a regular basis due to their success. Before any Beatlemaniacs attack me, let me state that I don't believe anyone deserves that status on any part of music. What happens if Garth Brooks takes over sale units from Beatles and if Taylor Swift continues, she will have more album sales and #1 than Beatles.

@Luthermutt_Notwell 8 ай бұрын