| Unlike many other bands that had started out in the | | | | dedication to their music and their want to continue |
| early sixties, the Rolling Stones is still going strong. In | | | | playing that music is what these people love. For |
| fact, because the band has been around for so long, | | | | over forty years they have been playing together as |
| many of the original band members are no longer | | | | a band and continuing to share their unique style with |
| with the Rolling Stones. When originally formed in the | | | | the world. In fact, they are quite experimental in their |
| year of 1962, the band members consisted of Keith | | | | playing and have been extremely successful in doing |
| Richards, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Ian Stewart, | | | | so. Even though they are a rock and roll band, they |
| Charlie Watts, and Bill Wyman. Brian Jones would be | | | | always include many different music genres in their |
| fired from the band in 1968 and Mick Taylor, who left | | | | music. |
| the band in 1974, would take his place. | | | | Perhaps the reason why the Rolling Stones have |
| Ronnie Wood later joined the band and Bill Wyman | | | | been a success for so long is because they have |
| left the band in the early nineties. Today, the band | | | | such a passion and love for what they do. This is |
| currently consists of only four members: Mick Jagger, | | | | why they have been able to create music that has |
| Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts. Even | | | | been enjoyed for more than forty years. It is an |
| with the many changes that occurred throughout the | | | | extraordinary achievement that other bands and |
| years, including the turn over in the members, the | | | | musicians strive to do, and while there have been a |
| band continues to tour and be enjoyed for its music. | | | | few that were successful in having a lifetime career |
| The Rolling Stones focused more in rhythm and blues | | | | in music, there are few bands that have managed to |
| and rock and roll when they first started out, but | | | | entertain so well for so long. |
| were more or less labeled a rock and roll band after | | | | The ironic thing about the band's success is that in |
| a hit in the mid 1960s. From then, they went on to | | | | the beginning Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were |
| become one of the most successful rock and roll | | | | not terribly impressed with their music and were |
| bands in the twentieth century. They would create | | | | surprised when their first few songs had such a good |
| thirty albums and many compilations through the | | | | turn out. That success helped them to build their |
| years. In 1994, they made it into the Rock and Roll | | | | confidence and they kept on going after that. They |
| Hall of Fame. | | | | may have underestimated their abilities at first, but |
| Even though they continued to tour and play | | | | after some hard work they began to see what they |
| together, many of the band members also created | | | | were really capable of. |
| solo albums on the side. It is obvious through their | | | | |