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1. Brian Jones, the guitarist and one of the founding fathers of the group, before becoming the idol of English teenagers and teen idol as one of the infamous Rolling Stones, had to work in the sports section of the Whitleys of London. Before he was expelled for stealing
2. When they met on the No. 2 platform in Dartford, between teenager Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, there was a group when it turned out that both of them loved the music blues obsessively; Richards' attention was drawn to the album of Muddy Waters, which Jagger brought with him to London. He was supposed to start his studies at the London School of Economics. Richards went to the art school of Sidcup Art College.
3. Director Martin Scorsese has used the song "Gimme Shelter" three times in his films. We heard it in "Boys from the gang", "Casino" and "Infiltration". Scorsese – author of these paintings as "Taxi Driver", "Raging Bull" or "Streets of Misery" – is a declared fan of The Rolling Stones. In addition to the films that are now the classics of American cinema, he is also the author of "Shine a Light", recording the Stones concert at the Beacon Theater in New York in 2006
– Jagger do not even remember to have recorded some numbers in the soundtrack of Casinos! – the director laughed, who used only Long Long While stones, Heart of Stone, I can not get satisfaction, Sweet Virginia and You don? do not hear ". ". And, of course, "Gimme Shelter". In two versions – studio and concert.
4. Behind the camera, during the shooting of "Gimme Shelter" (1970) sat George Lucas – later creator of "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones". The film is recording the free performance of Stones at the Altamont Racecourse, advertised as the "Second Woodstock". The concert was turned into a fight, when the band of Hell's Angels – hired by the team as a protection – drugged addict on the black fan who died of injuries with a knife. The film, which is supposed to show triumph and unite rock and roll, has turned into an epitaph for the '60s, the era of "flower-kids", believing that the world can be saved with music.
The drummer at the first concert of the Rolling Stones was not Charlie Watts; with Stones played Mick Avory, later playing in The Kinks. Some sources say that on July 12, 1962, Tony Champman played at the Marquee Club in London with Jagger, Richards and Jones. Watts joined the group in January 1963, when Chapman slammed the door, not liking the blues – for Jagger and Richards being the highest sanctity – and complaining of low and uncertain incomes. He founded his own group The Preachers.
6. Despite the rivalry between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the musicians of both groups became well known and helped each other. Jagger and Jones took part in the recording of "Baby You're A Rich Man" from The Beatles, Lennon and McCartney sang in "We Love You". The song "I Wanna Be Your Man" was graciously presented by The Beatles to fellow Rolling Stones, while they were tired of inventing original songs. "I want to be your man", according to Lennon, is a "recoil" of the Beatles. Although the Stones were not invited to the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" party, Richards, Wyman and Jones broke into the band without being invited.
While working on the album "Exile on Mn Street", Stones wrote texts using the Surrealist and Dadaist method, spied on by the American writer William S. Burroughs – they displayed fragments of the finished text and arranged them with a new one
. In the video of the song "Anybody Seen My Baby?", Who promoted the album "Bridges to Babylon" from 1997, she played Angelina Jolie, 22 years old.
9. In addition to the career of singer The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger has also flirted with film – he has starred in films such as "Freejack" (1992) and "Ned Kelly" (1970). In 1978, he appeared in the production of "Gunpowder Wing", playing the role of Antonin Artaud, one of the most famous avant-garde theater artists.
10. Journalist, screenwriter and prose writer, Terry Southern – author of the scripts for "Dr. Strangelove" and "Easy Rider" – he dreamed that the Stones would be played by a group of young criminals from Anthony Burgess's "Mechanical Orange" novel, for the adaptation that he had made in Stanley Stanley Kubrick in 1971. Jagger was supposed to play the lead role of Alex DeLarge – Malcolm McDowell finally played the role.
11. In 1969, in an interview with Melody Maker, Mick Jagger confessed: "I do not expect to live until a late age, I just have a feeling."
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