A Closer Look At The Rolling Stones MusicThe English band Rolling Stones has often been referred to as “the greatest rock band” in the world since being introduced as such in the 1969 American tour. Releasing 55 albums and compilations with more than 37 top 10 singles and selling over 250 million albums world wide, it isn’t hard to see why the tag stuck and is being used up to today. Rolling Stones music is a mixture of rock and roll, blues and rhythm and blues. The music has stayed within these formats since the band was founded in London in 1962 by Brian Jones who at the time was in partnership with songwriter Mick Jagger and guitarist/songwriter Kieth Richards. Rolling Stones music in the beginning adopted a more rhythms and blues style until it later moved into a more blues based rock and roll style. After releasing their first album in 1964, and several follow-ons, they have continued to this day, to record and perform live around the world. There have been several less popular Rolling Stones albums, but the band itself has never ceased to be a visible personality in the music and entertainment world. They have continued to be popular with fans and the media and have sustained productivity with their new and original music materials. Rolling Stones music has drawn a broad fan base and they have also been very influential in some of today’s rock and roll groups. This is both in the musical style, aesthetic forms and lyrical style of new rock and roll groups. Their new album “A Bigger Bang” released by Virgin Records in September 2005 features a collection of wide ranging, high powered original blues based rock songs. It is has sixteen full tracks and is the longest new album since the “Exile on the Main Street” album in 1972. The main cuts include “Rough Justice” which will aim at U.S. rock radio formats and “Streets of Love” which is the first international single in the album. There is also the “Back of My Hand” a song in the album that takes fans back to the classic rough-edged Rolling Stones rhythms and blues style. Other songs in the album include “This Place is Empty, “Laugh, I Nearly Died” “It won’t Take Long” and “Rain Fall Down”. In November of 2006, they also released a tour diary T.O.T.A ’75 which features the earlier Rolling Stones tours as far as thirty years ago. A documentary by Martin Scorsese in 2007 featured the Rolling Stones in some of their live performances in New York. It featured an audience that included a number of world leaders. Then in March the Rolling Stones announced the Europe leg of the “Bigger Bang 2007” tour. This tour will take the band to different places in Europe for the first time. On June 12, a second Rolling Stones DVD was released. It is a four-disc DVD called “The Biggest Bang”. It is seven hours long and it shows unforgettable concerts Saitama, Japan, Buenos Aires and the record breaking concert in Austin, Rio de Janeiro that gathered over 1.5 million fans from all over the world. The Rolling Stones hold the record for having more concert ticket sales than any other performer and they also hold the record for being the band with the second most attended tour in North America for all times. Their latest Rolling Stones world concert tour “A Bigger Bang” is produced by WPC Piecemeal Inc. and presented by Concert Productions International. |