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Great Britain · Arts / Music. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

112Records
1960–2005Date range
17Named people
3Places

Chronological records

1960

Mick Jagger1960

London · Arts / Popular Music

Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Dick Taylor form the band Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys, pre-cursor of the Rolling Stones

Mick Jagger1960

London · Arts / Popular Music

Keith Richards and Mick Jagger both attended the Dartford Maypole County Primary School, the two become reacquainted while Richards is attending the Sidcup Art School and Jagger is a student at the London School of Economics

Keith Richards1960

London · Arts / Popular Music

Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Dick Taylor form the band Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys, pre-cursor of the Rolling Stones

Keith Richards1960

Sidcup · Arts / Popular Music

Keith Richards and Mick Jagger both attended the Dartford Maypole County Primary School, the two become reacquainted while Richards is attending the Sidcup Art School and Jagger is a student at the London School of Economics

Dick Taylor1960

London · Arts / Popular Music

Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Dick Taylor form the band Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys, pre-cursor of the Rolling Stones

1962

Mick Jagger12 July 1962

London · Arts / Popular Music

The Stones have their first gig at the Marquee Club with Jagger, Richards, Jones, Stewart, bass player Dick Taylor (later of The Pretty Things) and drummer Tony Chapman. The group plays its first gig at the Marquee club in London, billed as "The Rollin Stones"

Brian Jones12 July 1962

London · Arts / Popular Music

The Stones have their first gig at the Marquee Club with Jagger, Richards, Jones, Stewart, bass player Dick Taylor (later of The Pretty Things) and drummer Tony Chapman

Keith Richards12 July 1962

London · Arts / Popular Music

The Stones have their first gig at the Marquee Club with Jagger, Richards, Jones, Stewart, bass player Dick Taylor (later of The Pretty Things) and drummer Tony Chapman

Dick Taylor12 July 1962

London · Arts / Popular Music

The Stones have their first gig at the Marquee Club with Jagger, Richards, Jones, Stewart, bass player Dick Taylor (later of The Pretty Things) and drummer Tony Chapman

Bill WymanDecember 1962

London · Arts / Popular Music

Bill Wyman officially joins the Rolling Stones

Tony Chapman1962

London · Arts / Popular Music

The Stones have their first gig at the Marquee Club with Jagger, Richards, Jones, Stewart, bass player Dick Taylor (later of The Pretty Things) and drummer Tony Chapman

Mick Jagger1962

London · Arts / Popular Music

The Rolling Stones lineup settles down to Jagger, Richards, Stewart, Jones, Taylor, and drummer Tony Chapman

Brian Jones1962

Ealing · Arts / Popular Music

As Keith Richards tells it, Jones came up with the name the "Rollin Stones" (later with the g) while on the phone with a venue owner, "The voice on the other end of the line obviously said, What are you called? Panic. The Best of Muddy Waters album was lying on the floorand track five, side one was Rollin Stone"

Brian Jones1962

London · Arts / Popular Music

This record states: Jagger and his childhood friend Keith Richards had met Jones when he and Paul Jones were playing Elmore James "Dust My Broom" with Korner's band at the Ealing Jazz Club, Jagger brought guitarist Richards to rehearsals.

Brian Jones1962

London · Arts / Popular Music

This record states: Jones places an advertisement in Jazz News (a Soho club information sheet) of 2 May 1962 inviting musicians to audition for a new R&B group at the Bricklayers Arms pub.

Brian Jones1962

London · Arts / Popular Music

This record states: Pianist Ian "Stu" Stewart is the first to respond, later singer Mick Jagger also joins this band.

Brian Jones1962

London · Arts / Popular Music

This record states: Richards then joins the band.

Brian Jones1962

London · Arts / Popular Music

Jones comes up with the name "The Rollin Stones" (later with the g)

Brian Jones1962

London · Arts / Popular Music

Jones leaves Cheltenham and moves to London where he becomes friends with fellow musicians Alexis Korner, future Manfred Mann singer Paul Jones, future Cream bassist Jack Bruce and others who make up the small London rhythm and blues and jazz scene & becomes a blues

Brian Jones1962

London · Arts / Popular Music

Jones recruits Ian "Stu" Stewart and singer Mick Jagger into his band - who, with Jagger's childhood friend Keith Richards, met Jones when he and Paul Jones were playing Elmore James "Dust My Broom" with Korner's band at The Ealing Club.

Brian Jones1962

London · Arts / Popular Music

The Rolling Stones lineup settles down to Jagger, Richards, Stewart, Jones, Taylor, and drummer Tony Chapman.

Brian Jones1962

London · Arts / Popular Music

musician, for a brief time calling himself "Elmo Lewis", and playing slide guitar.

Keith Richards1962

London · Arts / Popular Music

The Rolling Stones lineup settles down to Jagger, Richards, Stewart, Jones, Taylor, and drummer Tony Chapman

Ian Stewart1962

London · Arts / Popular Music

The Stones have their first gig at the Marquee Club with Jagger, Richards, Jones, Stewart, bass player Dick Taylor (later of The Pretty Things) and drummer Tony Chapman

1963

Charlie WattsJanuary 1963

London · Arts / Popular Music

Charlie Watts officially joins the Rolling Stones

Eric Eastman1963

London · Arts / Popular Music

As the Stones grow, they come to the attention of Andrew Loog Oldham, who meets them at the suggestion of Record Mirror music writer Peter Jones, and becomes, with Eric Eastman, their co-managers

Brian Jones1963

London · Arts / Popular Music

Oldham's arrival marks the beginning of Jones slow estrangement from the band, one which saw his prominent role diminished as Oldham sought to shift the Stones's centre from Jones to Jagger and Richards

Peter Jones1963

London · Arts / Popular Music

As the Stones grow, they come to the attention of Andrew Loog Oldham, who meets them at the suggestion of Record Mirror music writer Peter Jones, and becomes, with Eric Eastman, their co-managers

Andrew Loog Oldham1963

London · Arts / Popular Music

As the Stones grow, they come to the attention of Andrew Loog Oldham, who meets them at the suggestion of Record Mirror music writer Peter Jones, and becomes, with Eric Eastman, their co-managers

Andrew Loog Oldham1963

London · Arts / Popular Music

Oldham coins the phrase "Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone?".

Andrew Loog Oldham1963

London · Arts / Popular Music

Oldham, who had worked as the Beatles publicist, was an admirer of Anthony Burgess novel A Clockwork Orange, as well as the film Expresso Bongo, cultivated an image for the band as unruly and slightly menacing.

Andrew Loog Oldham1963

London · Arts / Popular Music

Runs into an inebriated John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who give him their barely finished song I Wanna Be Your Man which becomes an early Stones hit.

Andrew Loog Oldham1963

London · Arts / Popular Music

The Beatles visit the Rolling Stones at a London show and help connect the Stones with manager Andrew Loog Oldham.

1965

Mick Jagger12 June 1965

Arts / Popular Music

Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"

Mick Jagger1965

Arts / Popular Music

Prompted by Oldham, Jagger and Richards become more prolific songwriters and the US version of 1965s Out of Our Heads contains seven original songs, including the classic "(I Cant Get No) Satisfaction"

Andrew Loog Oldham1965

Arts / Popular Music

Prompted by Oldham, Jagger and Richards become more prolific songwriters and the US version of 1965s Out of Our Heads contains seven original songs, including the classic "(I Cant Get No) Satisfaction"

Keith Richards1965

Arts / Popular Music

Prompted by Oldham, Jagger and Richards become more prolific songwriters and the US version of 1965s Out of Our Heads contains seven original songs, including the classic "(I Cant Get No) Satisfaction"

1966

Brian Jones1966

Arts / Popular Music

Jones produces, plays on and writes the soundtrack for the film "Mord und Totschlag" (aka "A Degree Of Murder"), an avant-garde German film with Anita Pallenberg

Allen Klein1966

Arts / Popular Music

Problems with Andrew Loog Oldham's drug abuse led to the sale of his interest in the Stones to Allen Klein

Andrew Loog Oldham1966

Arts / Popular Music

Problems with Andrew Loog Oldham's drug abuse led to the sale of his interest in the Stones to Allen Klein

Anita Pallenberg1966

Arts / Popular Music

Jones produces, plays on and writes the soundtrack for the film "Mord und Totschlag" (aka "A Degree Of Murder"), an avant-garde German film with Anita Pallenberg

1967

Brian JonesMarch 1967

Arts / Popular Music

This record states: Anita Pallenberg, Jones's girlfriend of two years, leaves him for Richards when Jones is hospitalised during a trip the three made to Morocco, further damaging the already strained relations between Jones and Richards, as tensions and.

Brian JonesMarch 1967

Arts / Popular Music

This record states: Jones's substance use increase, his musical contributions become sporadic, he becomes bored with the guitar and seeks exotic instruments to play, and is increasingly absent from recording sessions.

Anita PallenbergMarch 1967

Arts / Popular Music

Jones girlfriend Anita Pallenberg runs off with Richards while Jones is hospitalised, damaging Jones and Richards friendship

Keith RichardsMarch 1967

Arts / Popular Music

Jones girlfriend Anita Pallenberg runs off with Richards while Jones is hospitalised, damaging Jones and Richards friendship

Brian Jones10 May 1967

London · Arts / Popular Music

Jones is arrested for drug possession on 10 May 1967, shortly after the "Redlands" incident at Richards Sussex home, authorities find marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamine in his flat & he confesses to marijuana use but claims he did not use hard drugs

Mick Jagger1967

Arts / Popular Music

"We Love You" is released, a thank you for loyalty shown by their fans during their drug trials, seen as a barbed attack on their perceived persecutors: the News of the World, the Metropolitan Police. A new psychedelic album, which Jagger envisions as the groups equivalent of the Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, eventually be released as Their Satanic Majesties Request, during a threat of imprisonment

Brian Jones1967

Arts / Popular Music

"We Love You" is released, a thank you for loyalty shown by their fans during their drug trials, seen as a barbed attack on their perceived persecutors: the News of the World, the Metropolitan Police

Brian Jones1967

Arts / Popular Music

Anita Pallenberg, Jones's girlfriend of two years, leaves him for Richards when Jones is hospitalised during a trip the three made to Morocco, further damaging the already strained relations between Jones and Richards, as tensions and Jones's substance use increase, his musical contributions become sporadic,

Brian Jones1967

Arts / Popular Music

Clips in the promotional film for "We Love You" show Jones slumped and barely able to keep his eyes open, most likely due to the effects of Mandrax (quaalude)

Brian Jones1967

Arts / Popular Music

Jones girlfriend Anita Pallenberg runs off with Richards while Jones is hospitalised, damaging Jones and Richards friendship.

Brian Jones1967

Arts / Popular Music

The 1967 albums Between the Buttons and Their Satanic Majesties Request showcase Jones multi-instrumental talents throughout.

Brian Jones1967

Arts / Popular Music

he becomes bored with the guitar and seeks exotic instruments to play, and is increasingly absent from recording sessions.

Andrew Loog Oldham1967

Arts / Popular Music

Oldham departs as manager & producer of the Rolling Stones in late 1967

Keith Richards1967

Arts / Popular Music

This record states: "We Love You" is released, a thank you for loyalty shown by their fans during their drug trials, seen as a barbed attack on their perceived persecutors: the News of the World, the Metropolitan Police.

Keith Richards1967

Arts / Popular Music

This record states: A new psychedelic album, which Jagger envisions as the groups equivalent of the Beatles Sgt.

Keith Richards1967

Arts / Popular Music

This record states: Jones girlfriend Anita Pallenberg runs off with Richards while Jones is hospitalised, damaging Jones and Richards friendship.

Keith Richards1967

Arts / Popular Music

This record states: Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, eventually be released as Their Satanic Majesties Request, during a threat of imprisonment.

1968

Brian Jones21 May 1968

Arts / Popular Music

This record states: 105 in costs and told him: "For goodness sake, dont get into trouble again or it really will be serious".

Brian Jones21 May 1968

Arts / Popular Music

This record states: Jones is arrested a second time on 21 May 1968, for possession of cannabis, which Jones said had been left by previous tenants of the flat.

Brian Jones21 May 1968

Arts / Popular Music

This record states: he is facing a long jail sentence if found guilty owing to his probation, the jury find him guilty but the judge had sympathy for Jones. instead of jailing him he fines him pounds 50 plus pounds.

Mick JaggerMay 1968

Arts / Popular Music

With personal relations between Jones and Richards increasingly frayed, the release of the single "Jumpin Jack Flash" and, later the year, the album Beggars Banquet (UK #3; US #5), see a return to the bands blues roots. Aided by up-and-coming producer Jimmy Miller, Jagger and Richards produce some of their most memorable work, including "Sympathy for the Devil" and the distorted acoustic guitar-driven "Street Fighting Man"

Brian JonesMay 1968

Arts / Popular Music

With personal relations between Jones and Richards increasingly frayed, the release of the single "Jumpin Jack Flash" and, later the year, the album Beggars Banquet (UK #3; US #5), see a return to the bands blues roots

Jimmy MillerMay 1968

Arts / Popular Music

Aided by up-and-coming producer Jimmy Miller, Jagger and Richards produce some of their most memorable work, including "Sympathy for the Devil" and the distorted acoustic guitar-driven "Street Fighting Man"

Keith RichardsMay 1968

Arts / Popular Music

With personal relations between Jones and Richards increasingly frayed, the release of the single "Jumpin Jack Flash" and, later the year, the album Beggars Banquet (UK #3; US #5), see a return to the bands blues roots. Aided by up-and-coming producer Jimmy Miller, Jagger and Richards produce some of their most memorable work, including "Sympathy for the Devil" and the distorted acoustic guitar-driven "Street Fighting Man"

Brian JonesDecember 1968

Arts / Popular Music

Jones last formal appearance with the Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, part concert, part circus-act film organized by the band, but not released for 25 years

Mick Jagger1968

Arts / Popular Music

Aided by up-and-coming producer Jimmy Miller, Jagger and Richards produce some of their most memorable work, including "Sympathy for the Devil" and the distorted acoustic guitar-driven "Street Fighting Man".

Mick Jagger1968

Arts / Popular Music

Rolling Stones release the album, "Beggars Banquet".

Mick Jagger1968

Arts / Popular Music

With personal relations between Jones and Richards increasingly frayed, the release of the single "Jumpin Jack Flash" and, later the year, the album Beggars Banquet (UK #3; US #5), see a return to the bands blues roots.

Brian Jones1968

Arts / Popular Music

Jones last formal appearance with the Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, part concert, part circus-act film organized by the band, but not released for 25 years.

Brian Jones1968

Arts / Popular Music

Jones's last substantial sessions with the Stones occurs in spring and summer of 1968 when the Stones produce "Jumpin Jack Flash" and the Beggars Banquet album

Brian Jones1968

Arts / Popular Music

The 1968 album Beggars Banquet and the 1969 Let it Bleed album has Jones mostly missing, instead featuring guitar weaving by either Richards alone or with session musicians such as Ry Cooder and Dave Mason.

Brian Jones1968

Arts / Popular Music

With personal relations between Jones and Richards increasingly frayed, the release of the single "Jumpin Jack Flash" and, later the year, the album Beggars Banquet (UK #3; US #5), see a return to the bands blues roots.

Dave Mason1968

Arts / Popular Music

The 1968 album Beggars Banquet and the 1969 Let it Bleed album has Jones mostly missing, instead featuring guitar weaving by either Richards alone or with session musicians such as Ry Cooder and Dave Mason

1969

Mick Jagger8 June 1969

Arts / Popular Music

At the suggestion of pianist and road manager Ian Stewart, the Stones decide to add a new guitarist and Jones is visited by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts and told the group he formed would continue without him.

Mick Jagger8 June 1969

Arts / Popular Music

Jones is forced out of the band after a late-night visit to his rural home from Jagger, Richards and Charlie Watts to be replaced by twenty-year-old jazz-influenced guitarist Mick Taylor, from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.

Brian Jones8 June 1969

Arts / Popular Music

At the suggestion of pianist and road manager Ian Stewart, the Stones decide to add a new guitarist and Jones is visited by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts and told the group he formed would continue without him

Brian Jones8 June 1969

Arts / Popular Music

The Stones decided that following the release of the Let It Bleed album (scheduled for a July 1969 release in the US) they would start a North American tour in November 1969, however, the Stones management was informed that because of his drug convictions Jones would not receive a work

Brian Jones8 June 1969

Arts / Popular Music

permit, at the suggestion of pianist and road manager Ian Stewart, the Stones decided to add a new guitarist and on 8 June 1969, Jones was visited by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Charlie Watts where he was told that the group he had formed would continue without him.

Keith Richards8 June 1969

Arts / Popular Music

At the suggestion of pianist and road manager Ian Stewart, the Stones decide to add a new guitarist and Jones is visited by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts and told the group he formed would continue without him

Ian Stewart8 June 1969

Arts / Popular Music

At the suggestion of pianist and road manager Ian Stewart, the Stones decide to add a new guitarist and Jones is visited by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts and told the group he formed would continue without him

Charlie Watts8 June 1969

Arts / Popular Music

At the suggestion of pianist and road manager Ian Stewart, the Stones decide to add a new guitarist and Jones is visited by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts and told the group he formed would continue without him

Brian Jones9 June 1969

Arts / Popular Music

Jones releases a statement announcing his departure

Mick Taylor9 June 1969

Arts / Popular Music

Jones is replaced by 20-year-old guitarist Mick Taylor (formerly of John Mayalls Bluesbreakers), who starts sessions with the Stones right away

Mick Taylor13 June 1969

Arts / Popular Music

unveiled to the media during a press conference in Hyde Park

Mick Jagger3 July 1969

Arts / Popular Music

Honky Tonk Women is released, coinciding with the death of Jones, and remains the bands last number 1 single in the UK

Keith Richards3 July 1969

Arts / Popular Music

Honky Tonk Women is released, coinciding with the death of Jones, and remains the bands last number 1 single in the UK

Mick Jagger1969

Arts / Popular Music

Rolling Stones release the album, "Let It Bleed"

1970

Mick Jagger1970

Arts / Popular Music

Rolling Stones release the album, "Get Yer Ya-Yas Out"

1971

Mick Jagger1971

Arts / Popular Music

Rolling Stones release the album, "Sticky Fingers"

1972

Mick Jagger20 February 1972

Arts / Popular Music

Rolling Stones release the album, "Milestones"

Mick Jagger14 April 1972

Arts / Popular Music

Rolling Stones release the single, "Tumbling Dice" which reaches no 5 in the UK charts

Mick Jagger26 May 1972

Arts / Popular Music

Rolling Stones release the album, "Exile On Main Street"

Keith Richards26 May 1972

Arts / Popular Music

Rolling Stones release the album, "Exile On Main Street"

Mick Jagger20 November 1972

Arts / Popular Music

Mick Jagger sings on Carly Simon's "You're so Vain"

1973

Mick Jagger18 June 1973

Arts / Popular Music

Martha Hunt files an application in a London Court claiming Mick Jagger is the father of her daughter Karis

Keith Richards26 June 1973

Arts / Popular Music

Arrested in Chelsea for possession of cannabis

Keith Richards20 August 1973

Arts / Popular Music

"Angie" is recorded in Jamaica, it reaches no 2 in the UK charts

Mick Jagger31 August 1973

Arts / Popular Music

"Goat's Head Soup" is released, reaches no 1 in the UK and US album charts

Keith Richards31 August 1973

Arts / Popular Music

"Goat's Head Soup" is released, reaches no 1 in the UK and US album charts

Keith Richards24 October 1973

Arts / Popular Music

Fined 205 pounds for possession of cannabis and possessing an unlicensed firearm

1974

Mick Taylor12 February 1974

Arts / Popular Music

It is announced that Mick Taylor will be leaving the Rolling Stones

1975

Ronnie Wood22 March 1975

Arts / Popular Music

Ronnie Wood joins the Rolling Stones for a recording session in Munich

Ronnie Wood14 April 1975

Arts / Popular Music

It is announced that Ronnie Wood will join as a guest on the Rolling Stones tour of America

Mick Jagger13 June 1975

Arts / Popular Music

Rolling Stones release a compilation, "Made in the Shade"

Keith Richards13 June 1975

Arts / Popular Music

Rolling Stones release a compilation, "Made in the Shade"

1976

Bill Wyman26 February 1976

Arts / Popular Music

Bill Wyman releases his solo album, "Stone Alone"

Ronnie Wood28 February 1976

Arts / Popular Music

It is announced that Ronnie Wood has joined the Rolling Stones

Mick Jagger20 April 1976

Arts / Popular Music

Rolling Stones release the album, "Black and Blue"

Keith Richards20 April 1976

Arts / Popular Music

Rolling Stones release the album, "Black and Blue"

1997

Mick Jagger1997

Arts / Popular Music

Rolling Stones release the album, "Bridges to Babylon"

2005

Mick Jagger2005

Arts / Popular Music

Rolling Stones release the album, "A Bigger Bang"

Names involved

Allen KleinAndrew Loog OldhamAnita PallenbergBill WymanBrian JonesCharlie WattsDave MasonDick TaylorEric EastmanIan StewartJimmy MillerKeith RichardsMick JaggerMick TaylorPeter JonesRonnie WoodTony Chapman

Provenance

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