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The Rolling Stones’ sax player Bobby Keys, Outlaw Country legend Waylon Jennings, and Rock & Roll originator Buddy Holly all lived in the same neighborhood in Lubbock, Texas & were friends before each was famous. Jennings & Keys both played with Holly’s backing band The Crickets (though Keys did after Holly’s death).

“Chuck Berry took them all by storm and played against their animosity. To me, that’s blues. That’s the attitude and the guts it takes.” – Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones

“Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop rock, you name it… you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones.” – Bob Dylan

“Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man of wealth and taste.” – The Rolling Stones, “Sympathy For The Devil”, 1968

“It made me sick – my name’s Keith Richards. It hardly makes it against Howlin’ Wolf or Muddy Waters, does it?” – The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards

“The sunshine bores the daylight out of me” – The Rolling Stones, Rocks Off, 1972

“I was born in a crossfire hurricane” – The Rolling Stones, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, 1968

“This Record Should Be Played Loud” – Back cover of The Rolling Stones’ Let It Bleed

“This is just a tree of life. This record is the watering hole.” – Tom Waits, on The Rolling Stones’ “Exile on Main Street”

“I was born in a cross-fire hurricane and I howled at my ma’ in the driving rain” – Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones, Jumpin’ Jack Flash (1968)

“The name of it is Rolling Stone, which comes from an old saying: ‘A Rolling Stone gathers no moss.’ Muddy Waters used the name for a song he wrote; The Rolling Stones took their name from Muddy’s song, and “Like A Rolling Stone” was the title of Bob Dylan’s first rock and roll record.”” – Jann Wenner’s Letter from the Editor, Rolling Stone Magazine Volume 1 / Issue 1, November 9, 1967

“So its about time you shut up and we let Howlin Wolf on stage” – The Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones on their Television Debut

“All the Rolling Stones was on it. All of ’em. It only took us three hours to record… And we weren’t in no hurry.” – Howlin’ Wolf on The London Sessions

The Rolling Stones’ Bobby Keys played saxophone on Elvis Presley’s hit 1962 song “Return to Sender”

In 1964, Dean Martin introduced “a new band from England”: the Rolling Stones, who played Willie Dixon’s “I Just Want To Make Love To You” at the Hollywood Palace.

The ultra-iconic instrumental at the end of The Rolling Stones’ “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin'” was originally just a post-song jam session with Bobby Keys and Mick Taylor that was left in the final recording.

During two very close sessions in 1970, Saxophone legend Bobby Keys played very similar sax solos in both The Rolling Stones’ “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin'” and George Harrison’s “Out of the Blue” from his album ‘All Things Must Pass’.

In 1971, The Rolling Stones recorded their masterpiece album “Exile on Main Street” in the basement of a French mansion called Villa Nellcôte.

The Who’s Pete Townshend got his signature windmill guitar move from watching The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards do it while warming up backstage.

The Rolling Stones paid tribute to zydeco master Clifton Chenier’s 100th birthday in 2025 by covering the accordinist’ cajun song “Zydeco Sont Pas Salés”.

The Rolling Stones famously got started because Keith Richards spotted Mick Jagger at a train station holding Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry records, which intrigued the young guitarist.

While on tour in Clearwater, Florida, The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards woke up in the middle of the night with an inspiration, recorded what would be the famous guitar riff from ‘Satisfaction’ and fell back asleep.

The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards appeared in two Pirates of the Caribbean films as Captain Teague, father of Jack Sparrow.

The Rolling Stones’ bassist Bill Wyman opened a restaurant in London in 1986 called ‘Sticky Fingers’.

The Rolling Stones’ covered Fred McDowell’s song “You Gotta Move” on their 1971 album “Sticky Fingers”.

While still a somewhat unknown musician in Lubbock, Texas, Buddy Holly attracted two young men to his orbit: future country music star Waylon Jennings and future Rolling Stones’ saxophonist Bobby Keys.

The Rolling Stones’ (future) saxophonist Bobby Keys reportedly played the saxophone solo on Elvis Presley’s 1962 hit song “Return to Sender”.

When The Rolling Stones were the hottest ticket the world and every American TV show was clamoring to capture The Stones’ first American TV appearance, the band insisted that they would only perform if bluesman Howlin’ Wolf opened for them.

Herb Alpert’s 1965 album “Whipped Cream & Other Delights” outsold The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, and The Rolling Stones as the most popular album of 1966.

In 1964, just months before the release of their debut album, The Rolling Stones recorded a TV jingle for Kellog’s Rice Krispies cereal called ‘Wake Up In The Morning’.

Beale street blues guitarist Furry Lewis twice opened for the Rolling Stones.

When The Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones died at 27 years old, The Who’s Pete Townshend and The Doors’ Jim Morrison each published poems about him, and Jimi Hendrix dedicated a song to him on TV. Hendrix & Morrison would both soon join the 27 club, with Morrison dying exactly 2 years to-the-day after Jones.

The Rolling Stones’ producer Jimmy Miller played the distinctive cowbell on the band’s 1969 track “Honky Tonk Woman”.

The Rolling Stones’ longtime saxophonist Bobby Keys was fired in the 1973 tour after missing the roll call because, according to Keith Richards, he was busy with a “bathtub full of [Dom Perignon] and this French chick”

Shuggie Otis turned down an offer from Billy Preston to tour with The Rolling Stones in the mid-1970s.

The Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones died less than a month after his unceremonious departure from the band in 1969.

After Brian Jones was dismissed from The Rolling Stones, Mick Taylor from John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers replaced him on guitar.

The Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones owned, and within eight months died at the Cotchford Farm estate in Hartfield, East Sussex, UK, where A.A. Milne created Winnie-the-Pooh.

Marshall Chess, the son of Chess Records’ founder Leonard Chess, became president of Rolling Stones Records, and later worked with Sugar Hill Records while the label was in the process of inventing Hip Hop.

David Bowie himself played that Rolling Stones-esque guitar riff on his track “Rebel Rebel”.

The Meters opened for The Rolling Stones on their 1975 Americas & 1976 European tour.

Howlin’ Wolf was ranked #51 on Rolling Stones’ 2004 list of the “100 Greatest Artists of All Time”

The Rolling Stones’ iconic tongue logo was inspired by the image of Hindu goddess Kali — and Mick Jagger’s mouth.

Drummer Charlie Watts was 22 when he joined The Rolling Stones, agreeing also to the task of designing the band’s stage sets & album sleeves.

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