Mick Jagger

In 1962 a new blues cover band was discovered – the Rolling Stones. Inspired musicians by artist Chuck Berry, they became the first Rock and Roll band in history. One of the defining moments of the 1960s was the Rolling Stones era, they were followed and influential towards their fans across the world. In 1962 the Stones secured a gig at the Roll-daddy club in Richmond, England where their popularity spread. The numbers of fans increased rapidly over the weekends they played at the bar, they…

to the streets for individual, concrete answers, oblivious to the criminal justice system’s seemingly tight hold on his future. Yet in the first episode of Vinyl, the latest television series by director Martin Scorsese, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, writer Rich Cohen, and producer Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos), desperation stems from obsession, a thirst for a particularly unrefined sound of liberation — that is rock and roll. Drugs are plenty, girls and guys are…

age. However, the Rolling Stones did not begin with the same as its line-up today. Scarcely, very few, if any groups have ever began that way. The Rolling Stones began as a little high school band named "Young man Blue and the Blue Boys", with Mick Jagger singing and Keith Richards playing guitar. The music they played consisted of many different covers. However the music that they played were tunes in which originated from the performers they liked at that time. During this period of time,…

The Beatles mostly sang about peace and love, experimenting with different concepts on the subject and various instruments. George Harrison introduced the sitar in some of their later albums. Originally, they started as a simple pop band and eventually grew and developed into a rock and roll band. Most of their fan base was composed of teenage girls, while the Rolling Stones attracted every one of every age. They would have to think of creative and clever ways to sneak lyrics about sex and drugs…

profession. She began with Rolling Stone magazine in 1970 as a staff photographer, though her talent became apparent rather early on, and she found herself serving as the tour photographer for the Rolling Stones in 1975, just five years later. Mick Jagger understood that he wanted his band to be documented in a very specific way, and apparently thought Leibovitz to be capable of making that happen. She was constantly around the group during the tour, experiencing it all firsthand. It was…

When listening to the radio we often we usually hear the latest songs that are the most popular or newest hit. We think of the artist and how good he or she is and when their song will be available to download so we can jam out. What we do not realize is how that song came to be. Not the song originally, but the artist and how they got their music out to the public. Some people may know that when getting a song out you may have to go to a record company and see if you are star worthy. One of the…

In his 1987 book, The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom makes the case for what he describes as higher education failing democracy through an emphasis on historicism and relativism. This academic emphasis, for Bloom, creates a paradoxical restrictive freedom in the minds and hearts of students, leaving them without a moral compass, and creating a void that can easily be filled with demagoguery. Along the way, Bloom staunchly defends elitism and ethnocentrism, attacks feminism, and lays…

Rolling Stones is a rock and roll band that originated from London. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were both friends since they were young children back in 1951. They soon lost contact when both their families moved away. Years later in October 1960, they happened to bump into each other at a train station. Jagger was a student at a school for economics in London and he had his own band called Little Boy Blues and the Blue Boys. Jagger was a huge fan of blues music and Keith Richards was…

From mod to grunge, rock singers have been defining the way fans listen to music for decades. It’s that little bit of grit and truth that makes rock’s genres so honest, captivating and real. For the most part, it is the singer’s responsibility to draw in the listener with a combination of vocal abilities and stage presence. Here are ten of the most iconic rock singers of all time, who’s voices have defined genres and defied people’s expectations. Number Ten: Debbie Harry Blondie is one of the…

putting their name and likeness on just about everything. Simmons has translated his notoriety with the band into his own reality television empire, with his longest-running show being A&E’s Gene Simmons Family Jewels. Number Three: Mick Jagger ($305 Million) Mick Jagger has spent more than five decades in the music industry as both a founding member of the Rolling Stones and a solo artist. He continues to tour with the band, who recently played the first show in Cuba since sanctions were…