July 12 1962: five scruffy youths performed for the first as a group with a name they had just adopted: The Rolling Stones; 58 years later, the Stones still roll along...
Their first single was appropriate for them; the A-side was a cover of a song written by one of their idols. US legendary rocker Chuck Berry...
The A-side of their second single was a song written by and given to them by a couple of fellow UK musician/songwriters who were shopping around their songs on the London musical circuit as a side venture in case the the group they were in, also newly minted, should fail or fall apart; the songwriters would, and their own group would go on to be legends themselves and close friends of the Stones...
A-Side first single 1963...
A-Side second single 1964 performance, live...
Interesting trivia: The Stones became the first act to ever appear on UK's Top Of The Pops when the show debuted in 1964 and the song they performed was Lennon/McCartney's I Wanna Be Your Man...
Also in 1964, Charlie Watts married his girlfriend, Shirley, and they are still together 56 years later...
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