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 The Rolling Stones are an English rock band that rose to prominence during the British Invasion of the 1960s.They are one of the longest running and most successful acts in show business. Still recording and touring, they have sold 240 million albums worldwide. Every album of theirs containing primarily new studio material has placed in the top 5 of U.S. charts. They also routinely gross more than any other act the years they tour.
The band came into being in 1962 when former schoolmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards met Brian Jones, who replaced the band's original name Blues Incorporated with the title of the Muddy Waters song "Rollin'
Stone".
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By the time the Rolling Stones
began calling themselves the World's Greatest Rock & Roll
Band in the late '60s, they had already staked out an
impressive claim on the title. Read more...
The Stones' song "Start Me Up" was used by Microsoft to launch their Windows 95 operating system. Some critics noted that the group who epitomised the way that rock 'n' roll commercialised earlier rhythm and blues by delivering it to a global audience provided the soundtrack for the corporation, which did the same with software. (Critics of Windows also noted the song's lyric "You make a grown man cry.")
The Rolling Stones had previously never licensed their music for commercial use. According to legend, Microsoft founder Bill Gates asked Jagger how much the rights to the song would cost; rather than refuse outright, Jagger replied with $14 million, a sum that he thought would be outrageously high. However, Gates immediately agreed to the amount.
In 2002, The Rolling Stones released Forty Licks, a greatest hits album that spanned their career, that contained four new songs. The same year, Q magazine named The Rolling Stones as one of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die."
The group played during the half-time of Super Bowl XL. The show followed in the same vein as the Super Bowl XXXIX half-time show featuring Paul McCartney, with the band playing "Start Me Up," "Rough Justice," and "Satisfaction." Before performing "Satisfaction," Jagger made an uncharacteristic comment on their longevity: "This one we could've done for Super Bowl I."
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