The Rolling Stones

People do not know they are listening to timeless music until it is fifty years later and younger generations are still listening to the music their parents once listened to as a teenager. My dad listened to the Rolling Stones since he was a young teenager and many people still listen to the music that came out when he was in high school. Although, The Rolling Stones are unfading, new, urbane bands have come out such as One Direction. In fifty years, the adolescent may be listening to One Direction. The Stones perpetuated their success which inspires bands like One Direction to use them as an exceptional precedent. The Rolling Stones and One Direction are both extremely successful bands that would be nowhere without their frontmen, Mick Jagger …show more content…
Mick was born on July 26, 1943 in Dartford, Kent, England as Michael Philip Jagger. He was raised in a middle-class home by his parents, Joe and Eva Jagger, in what he thought was a protected environment ("Jagger" 1). In what would be an extremely significant person later on in his life, at five years old Jagger met Keith Richards, future band mate, on the playground at primary school. They went to separate schools but would meet later on and make a massive stature in music for generations to come ("Jagger" 2). In 1962, Mick graduated from Dartford Grammar School. Then, on a government grant, he went to college at the London School of Economics ("Jagger" 2). Similarly, Harry Edward Styles was born in Evesham, England but raised in Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, England on February 1, 1994. Like Mick, Harry was raised in a middle class home by parents Anne Cox and Des Styles, who divorced when he was seven ("One" 3). Styles attended Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School. Unlike Jagger, Harry finished his education after the GCSEs because his career had taken off ("One" 3). Although Mick Jagger and Harry Styles had alike upbringings, their start ups and careers were quite different. In contrast, Jagger and Styles's careers started relatively different. As a perfect illustration of fate, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards met by chance on a train and mused over their primary years but …show more content…
Like Jagger, Harry also coined his band's name, One Direction. The band dismally placed third on the X-Factor ("One" 1). In spite of losing, Simon Cowell intelligently signed One Direction to Syco with a deal supposedly worth two million pounds because of the potential he saw in the band. With Cowell's management team, One Direction created their first single, "What Makes You Beautiful", which broke the spell of British boy bands having trouble breaking America ("One" 1). Their debut album, "Up All Night", was one of the fastest selling albums of all time. One Direction received many attainments extremely early in their career. Unlike Mick, Styles had social media to use to his advantage to engage with fans and get his band's name out there. Social media was a major key to One Direction's success to which the Stones did not have access ("One" 1). Ever since the X-Factor in 2010, One Direction has had an unyielding gruesome schedule. For example, they have released five albums, had four world tours, three movies, four books and did promotions for each of these things. In the summer of 2015, One Direction announced that they were going on a hiatus in 2016 and credited their unrelenting schedule (Patrick 1). Mick and Harry have had tons of success, but with that came