22 April 1939
Birth of Simon Napier-Bell
Birth of Simon Napier-Bell
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Birth of Simon Napier-Bell
Jagger and his childhood friend Keith Richards meet Jones when he and Paul Jones are playing Elmore James "Dust My Broom" with Korner's band at the Ealing Jazz Club
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"
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