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Introduction
They are the rock stars' rock stars; the group that put the sex and drugs into rock and roll. They reaped the rewards and paid the price in a career as notorious for drug abuse as it was celebrated for hit records, writes Sharon L Keene.
They were friends and contemporaries of the Beatles in an era which changed the face of popular culture. But, as any fan will recall, while the Fab Four sang I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Mick and the boys were advocating: Let's Spend The Night Together.
While Lennon and McCartney shed their leather jackets and promoted themselves as the boys next door, the Stones were quick to promote a far different image, spinning the press headlines such as: "Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone?"
The hype became legend and, at times, it threatened to run out of control: the death of Brian Jones, the Hells Angels at Altamont, the wild parties, the court cases and the countless women.
Mick Jagger has seven children by a number of partners, Bill Wyman is known for having slept with more than 1,000 women, Keith Richards was once as well known for his heroin addiction as his guitar playing, Ronnie Wood recalls his alcoholism with the words: "I'm lucky to be alive."
Yet their music was inspirational, their musicianship revered and their showmanship admired the world over.
And they lasted.
They have survived four decades, often in the face of an unforgiving Establishment and a press more interested in dwelling on their age than celebrating the fact that, even in the millennium years, we can enjoy the best the Sixties had to offer.
The fact is, they broke the mould then, and they are doing it again now, challenging stereotypes, defying expectations. Their performances are as vibrant as they were in '64 and they're still as happy playing in small clubs as packed stadiums.
The legend lives on. For now at least, they'll not fade away.
The Sixties
1936: William Perks (Bill Wyman) is born on Oct 24 in Lewisham, south London.
1941: Charles Robert Watts is born in Islington, north London, on June 2.
1942: Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones is born in Cheltenham, Glos, on Feb 28.
1943: Michael Philip Jagger is born in Dartford, Kent, on July 26 Keith Richards is born on December 18 in Dartford, Kent.
1947: Ronald Wood is born in Hillingdon, Middx, on June 14.
1948: Michael Taylor is born in Welwyn Garden City, Herts, on Jan 17.
1961: In late October, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger meet by chance at Dartford Station. Richards is on his way to Sidcup Art College and Jagger is en route to lectures at the London School of Economics. Keith is impressed by the collection of imported R&B records from Chicago, including Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry material that Mick has under his arm.
An early TV performance
Richards joins a band called Little Boy Blue & The Blue Boys the following month and, through his involvement with the group, keeps in touch with Jagger.
March 1962: A group called Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, which includes drummer Charlie Watts, begins regular Saturday night gigs at Ealing Jazz Club in west London. On Mar 17, Brian Jones turns up to watch and gives Alexis a tape of his own recordings. A week later Jones joins the group on stage.
Little Boy Blue & The Blue Boys come to the Ealing club in April to hear Blues Inc. play and are captivated by Brian's slide playing during the interval. They catch up with him at the bar after the show.
April: Jagger and Richards perform together in the guest spot at the Ealing Jazz Club on April 21. Afterwards, they talk about forming a group.
May: Brian Jones advertises in Jazz News for other musicians. Pianist Ian Stewart responds. They start rehearsing.
Disc magazine reports that LSE economics student Mick Jagger will sing with Alexis Korner's band in the evenings at the Marquee and Ealing Jazz Clubs.
Jagger takes Richards to the Bricklayer's Arms in Soho to watch Jones and Stewart in rehearsals. Jones asks Jagger to join them but he refuses - unless Keith can join as well.
Jagger leaves Blues Inc. in June to focus on the new group, which begins auditioning drummers, including Charlie Watts.
July: The music press reports on July 7 say that Korner will be cancelling Blues Inc.'s forthcoming Marquee show to take part in a broadcasting opportunity with the BBC. Taking their slot will be "Mick Jagger & The Rolling Stones" and another band (the band's name is misprinted. It should read "Rollin' Stones", the name chosen by Brian).
They perform their first gig at the Marquee Jazz Club in Oxford Street for £20 and are offered the chance to perform there again. Jagger rents a flat at 102 Edith Grove, Chelsea. Brian, his girlfriend, Pat Andrews, and Richards move in.
September: The group records three tracks at Curly Clayton Studios in London. The line-up includes Dick Taylor and Tony Chapman.
November: Taylor leaves them to continue his studies. Bass guitarist Bill Wyman considers joining the Rolling Stones after watching them at the Red Lion Pub in Surrey.
1989: New York press conference
December: Wyman successfully auditions. He later says he thinks he got the job because of the size of his amplifier.
Wyman's first Stones gig is on Dec 15. But they continue to advertise, unconvinced that the new, older member - also a father - is committed.
January 1963: Charlie Watts is recruited. The Stones secure Sunday residency at the Crawdaddy Club in the Station Hotel, Richmond, Surrey.
April: The Richmond & Twickenham Times becomes the first newspaper to write about the Stones. Its April 13 article focuses on the band's popularity, which has grown to attract a regular 300-strong audience in a matter of weeks. Their following increases on the strength of the piece.
Word spreads about the group and on April 14 The Beatles drop in for the second half of the Stones' performance. Later that night, the club's owner, The Beatles and the Stones go back to Edith Grove together.
Andrew Loog Oldham turns up at their Crawdaddy Club gig on April 28 and chats to Jagger and Jones. The Stones agree that Impact Sound, run by Loog Oldham and Eric Easton is to become their management company, on May 6.
May: Oldham tells Ian Stewart he doesn't have the right image to remain in the band. Stewart stays on as road manager, playing piano in the studio and on stage with them.
Jones signs a recording contract for the band with Impact Sound, which entitles the five members a 6 six per cent share in royalties between them.
Beatle George Harrison tells Decca A&R Chief Dick Rowe to take a look at the Stones. Oldham produces 'Come On' by Chuck Berry, which the Stones record at Olympic Studios on May 10.
They play at the News of the World charity gala at Battersea Park on May 11. They sign a two-year "tape-lease" contract with Dick Rowe and Impact Sound - the agreement means that the Stones will still own their 'masters'.
June: Come On / I Wanna Be Loved is released on Decca.
Chart entry: June, Come On reaches No 21 (UK)
A national newspaper describes them as the 'newest cultural phenomenon' - their first taste of national media coverage, which appears in June.
July: The Rolling Stones make their television debut on Thank Your Lucky Stars on July 13 performing Come On. They replicate the successful look of the Liverpool groups, by wearing identical suits. But the television station's switchboard jams with complaints about their scruffiness.
August: They appear on the TV show Ready Steady Go for the first time on Friday, Aug 23.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney visit them while rehearsing at Studio 51 and offer them a track called: I Wanna Be Your Man.
UK various artists compilation album: September, Thank Your Lucky Stars Vol.2 ft. 'Come On'.
September: Their first British tour begins in London on Sept 29, supporting Bo Diddley and the Everly Brothers. The tour ends on Nov 3.
November: the Stones release I Wanna Be Your Man.
Chart entry: November, I Wanna Be Your Man reaches No 12 (UK)
They meet singer Gene Pitney on Nov 28. Pitney releases the Jagger/Richards composition That Girl Belongs To Yesterday on Dec 20 which is produced by Loog Oldham. This is the first Jagger/Richards track released.
The band records a one-minute jingle for a Kelloggs' Rice Krispies TV ad. New Musical Express readers vote them the Best British Small Group.
January 1964: They perform I Wanna Be Your Man on the first BBC Top Of The Pops show. They then begin their second British tour in Harrow on Jan 6 (the tour ends on January 27).
UK various artists compilation album: January, Ready Steady Go features Come On and I Wanna Be Your Man.
They release an EP (extended play) on Jan 17 which features four tracks. It spends 11 weeks in the singles charts, and reaches number 15.
UK various artists compilation album: January, Saturday Club features Poison Ivy and Fortune Teller.
February: Their third tour of Britain, All Star '64, begins in London on Feb 8 (the tour ends on March 7). In February, the band releases the single Not Fade Away in the UK and the US.
Chart entry: February, Not Fade Away reaches No 3 (UK)
The Stones take part in BBC Radio's first stereo sound broadcast which instructs listeners with more than one radio to tune one receiver to a frequency for the left side and another frequency for the right. Long John Baldry hosts the Blues & Rhythm programme.
Marianne Faithfull and her boyfriend John Dunbar attend a party where she she meets Jagger for the first time. Oldham persuades her to record a song that he will produce.
April: Their fourth British tour starts in Stevenage on April 1 (the tour ends on May 31). The first Decca album is released and features only a photograph of the band on the cover with no title. This forces fans to ask for them by name in record shops. It knocks The Beatles off the No 1 spot.
UK album chart entry: April, The Rolling Stones reaches No 1.
US album chart entry: May, England's Newest Hit Makers reaches No 11.
May: The band are refused lunch at a Bristol hotel because they're not wearing ties. There are riots on May 19 in Hamilton, Scotland, when police attempt to calm 4,000 fans from storming the Stones gig at a local hotel.
UK various artists compilation album: May, Fourteen features Surprise, Surprise.
News breaks on May 27 that a Coventry headmaster has suspended 11 boys from school for wearing their hair like Jagger's.
June: The band go to New York on June 1 for their first tour of America. More than 5,000 fans greet them at JFK airport.
Their US television debut is on June 2, on a programme called The Les Crane Show.
The first US concert opens on June 5 at the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino, California. They also play Carnegie Hall before the tour ends on June 20.
The first monthly magazine about the band 'The Rolling Stones Book' is published on June 10.
Chart entry: June, Tell Me reaches No 24 (US)
Their first US network television appearance, on ABC, is made on June 13, on 'Hollywood Palace'. British fans riot at Heathrow airport as the Stones return from America and they are voted Best British Vocal Band in a Record Mirror poll. It's All Over Now is released into the British singles charts and climbs to No. 1.
Chart entry: June, It's All Over Now reaches No 1 (UK)
July: They make an unforgettable television appearance on Juke Box Jury, appearing bored, yawning, picking their noses and offering no constructive opinion on the records they're asked to review. The press has a field day, parents are horrified and the group sells even more records.
Jagger, Richards and Wyman attend the after-show party following The Beatles film premiere of A Hard Day's Night, at London's Dorchester Hotel on July 8. Two days later Bill Perks officially changes his name to Bill Wyman.
Chart entry: July, It's All Over Now reaches No 26 (US)
Two policemen are injured on the opening night of the new British tour in Blackpool. A further 30 of the 7,000 fans are hurt in the crush. A Belfast concert is abandoned after 12 minutes as hysterical girls are lifted away in straight jackets.
August: A Netherlands concert is stopped after the second song because of audience hysteria. Police cut the power in a bid to keep control.
Decca releases the EP Five by Five on Aug 14 which was recorded in Chicago in June. As Tears Go By, by Marianne Faithfull, is released.
September: The fifth British tour begins at Finsbury Park Astoria in London on Sept 5 (the tour ends on Oct 11).
The Stones are voted Best British Band in a Melody Maker poll. Not Fade Away is voted Best Single. Rugby players are hired to provide a 'human shield' from hysterical fans at a concert in Liverpool.
Chart entry: September, Time Is On My Side reaches No 6 (US)
Loog Oldham, 20, marries 18-year-old painter Sheila Klein in Glasgow.
October: Charlie Watts marries sculptress Shirley Ann Shephard in Bradford, Yorks. The Stones are banned from Belgian television following a rapturous greeting from 5,000 fans at the airport in Brussels.
They fly to New York for their second US tour on Oct 23. On Oct 25, television host Ed Sullivan declares that he won't let the Stones appear on his show again because he claims that he's shocked by their first appearance on it earlier that day.
US album chart entry: November, 12X5 reaches No 3.
November: Little Red Rooster reaches No 1 in the British singles charts but the group are banned from a BBC Radio programme for failing to honour a booking.
Chart entry: November, Little Red Rooster reaches No 1 (UK)
December: Brian Jones denies rumours that he is leaving the group on Dec 12 - the same day they are voted Best R&B Group in a British poll.
Chart entry: December, Heart Of Stone reaches number 19 (US)
Charlie Watts' book, a tribute to Charlie Parker, called 'Ode to A Flying Bird' is published.
January 1965: Rolling Stones No 2, their second album, is released on Jan 15.
UK album chart entry: January, The Rolling Stones No 2 reaches No 1.
A performance recorded for the US ABC television show 'Shindig' is broadcast. More than 3,000 fans welcome them to Sydney, Australia.
Their 1965 Australia/Far East tour kicks off on Jan 22 (it ends on Feb 17).
February: The Last Time is released on Feb 26 and holds the No 1 position for four weeks.
Chart entry: February, The Last Time reaches No 1 (UK)
March: Their sixth British tour starts in Edmonton on March 5 (the tour ends on March 1 .
On their way back from a show in Romford, Essex, Jagger, Jones and Wyman are denied use of toilets by a garage owner and urinate against one of his forecourt walls instead. The incident hits the headlines and Oldham is delighted.
Chart entry: March, The Last Time reaches No 9 (US)
US album chart entry: March, 'The Rolling Stones Now!' reaches No 5.
The tour of Scandinavia and France in Denmark begins on March 26 (the tour ends on April 1 . Bill Wyman is knocked unconscious during rehearsals by a surge of electricity caused by two microphones coming into contact. He recovers for the first show.
April: The Rolling Stones' third North American tour starts in Montreal, Canada, on April 23 (the tour ends on May 30). They are forced to leave the stage in London, Ontario, on April 26, when police turn off the power.
Despite the host's previous comments, they make another appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in New York.
May: Sheila and Andrew Loog Oldham's first child, Sean, is born. Satisfaction' is released in the USA.
Chart entry: May, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction reaches No 1 (US)
They beat The Beatles into second place in an American pop poll.
June: The EP Got Live If You Want It is released as speculation spreads that Mick Jagger plans to marry Chrissie Shrimpton. On June 15, a tour of Scotland and Scandinavia begins in Glasgow (the tour ends on June 29). The Scandinavian leg of the tour opens in Norway on June 23.
July: The press reports that summonses are being issued against Wyman, Jones and Jagger for urinating against the wall in Romford on the grounds it constitutes "insulting" behaviour. Radio Luxembourg listeners vote the Rolling Stones more popular than The Beatles.
US album chart entry: July, Out Of Our Heads reaches No 1.
Wyman, Jagger and Jones are found guilty of committing "insulting behaviour" by a West Ham magistrate following the incident at Romford Road petrol station. They are each fined £5 plus court costs. They make the front pages of all the tabloids the next day.
August: Loog Oldham launches his Immediate Records label on Aug 1. Satisfaction is released in the UK and quickly climbs to No 1 where it remains for three weeks.
Chart entry: August, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction reaches No 1 (UK)
The Stones sign a new deal with Allen Klein, which names Loog Oldham and Klein as the band's 'co-managers'.
September: Brian Jones denies British press rumours that the Stones are planning to move to the US, but confirms that he has bought a house in Los Angeles. They start a tour which includes dates in Ireland before crossing to Austria and Germany for further shows (the tour ends on Sept 17).
Brian Jones and Anita Pallenberg meet for the first time after a gig in Munich. Fans vandalise more than 50 rows of seats inside a West Berlin hall. Thirty-two fans and six policemen need hospital treatment.
UK album chart entry: September, Out Of Our Heads reaches No 2.
They start their seventh British tour on Sept 24 to promote the release of the Out Of Our Heads album (the tour ends on Oct 17).
Chart entry: September, Get Off My Cloud reaches No 1 (US)
October: Bill Wyman quashes rumours that he is planning to quit. Forty female fans require hospital treatment following a crush in the first few rows on the opening of the group's fourth North American tour in Montreal (the tour ends on Dec 5). Jones's forehead is slashed in the mayhem and Watts's jacket is torn to shreds.
Chart entry: October, Get Off My Cloud reaches No 1 (UK)
November: Just as the album December's Children is released in the US, Blast magazine speculates that Jagger is leaving.
US album chart entry: November, December's Children (And Everybody's) reaches No 4.
December: An electric shock knocks out Keith Richards on stage as he plays The Last Time at Sacramento Auditorium. Anita Pallenberg flies to join Brian Jones in California after he publicly denies their impending marriage.
Chart entry: December, As Tears Go By reaches number 6 (US)
Satisfaction' is voted Single Of The Year in a British music press poll. The band is also named Best R&B Group and Second Best Vocal Group In The World.
February 1966: The single 19th Nervous Breakdown is released.
Chart entry: February, 19th Nervous Breakdown reaches No 2 in both the UK and US.
The band fly to New York for TV appearances on February 12. Their tour of Australia and New Zealand gets underway on February 18 (the tour ends on March 2).
Cliff Richard releases the single Blue Turns To Grey- another Jagger/Richards composition. The band record new tracks for their forthcoming album Aftermath at the RCA studios in Hollywood.
March: the Stones win the Carl Alan Award for Most Outstanding Group Of 1965. They begin their two-week tour of Europe in Holland on March 26.
Jagger narrowly avoids losing an eye during a concert in Marseilles when a theatre seat strikes him just above his left eyebrow. He needs several stitches. Police arrest more than 80 fans during the show. Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass), an anthology album from the band is released.
US album chart entry: March, Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass) reaches Nos 3.
April: the album Aftermath - the first to comprise only Jagger/Richards songs - is released. The track Goin' Home is an unprecedented 12 minutes long. The album spends seven weeks at No 1 in the British charts. Its release is delayed from March because the record label refuses to distribute it using the original controversial title: Could You Walk On The Water?
UK album chart entry: April, Aftermath reaches No 1.
Chart entry: April, Paint It, Black reaches No 1 (US)
May: Keith Richards buys a moated house in Sussex called Redlands.
Chart entry: May, Paint It, Black reaches number 1 (UK)
June: Mick Jagger appears on a BBC chat show on June 15. Another Jagger/Richards song is released by a different artist - Chris Farlowe's single 'Out Of Time' is issued by Immediate Records.
US album chart entry: June, Aftermath reaches No 2.
As the band arrives in New York, a bogus newspaper story is printed in Britain about their decision to stay on board a yacht anchored in a Manhattan boat basin. It claims that no less than 14 city hotels have declined to accommodate them during their fifth sell-out tour of North America and that the band is pursuing legal action resulting from the damage this causes to their reputations.
Chart entry: June, Mother's Little Helper reaches No 8 (US)
On June 24 the band is told that most of their new and upgraded tour equipment has been stolen, including Brian's custom-made electric dulcimer.
July: The tour ends in Hawaii and they make television appearances before taking holidays and returning to Britain.
August: Jagger and Chrissie Shrimpton are involved in a road accident near Marylebone. They escape without injury but his Aston Martin DB6 is almost a write-off. Brian Jones damages his hand on holiday in north Africa and is unable to play for two months. The group wear drag for the cover sleeve of the single'Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Shadow? It is shot in New York.
September: The single is released - and banned by the BBC.
Chart entry: September, Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Shadow? Reaches No 5 (UK) and No 9 (US)
Their eighth British tour starts on Sept 23 with a performance at the Royal Albert Hall, supported by Ike & Tina Turner and others (the tour ends Oct 9).
November: Pictures emerge of Brian Jones posing in Nazi regalia with Anita Pallenberg, re-igniting rumours that the couple are likely to marry.
UK album chart entry: November, Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass) reaches No 4.
December: The Stones are voted Second-Best Band In The World in two British polls.
US album chart entry: December, Got Live If You Want It reaches No 6.
Jagger ends his relationship with Chrissie Shrimpton because he is already involved with Marianne Faithfull, leading to Shrimpton's attempted suicide. The band announce that the 30th issue of The Rolling Stones Book will be the last one.
Chart entry: January, Let's Spend The Night Together reaches No 3 (UK).
Chart entry: January, Ruby Tuesday/Let's Spend The Night Together reaches No 1 (US).
January 1967:The record is banned by many US radio stations and, for their appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, Jagger is forced to change the lyrics to sing Let's Spend Some Time Together. Jagger rolls his eyes throughout the performance in protest.
A new album Between The Buttons is released on Jan 20 with all tracks on it written by Jagger and Richards.
US album chart entry: January, Between The Buttons reaches No 2.
The group appear on Sunday Night At The London Palladium but refuse to join other stars for the traditional 'waving', which closes the show.
February: Jagger attends the annual Music Business Awards Ceremony in Cannes with Marianne Faithfull. The band are nominated for the Best British Act category.
Brian Jones writes the musical score for the film Mord Und Totschlag (A Degree Of Murder) which stars Anita Pallenberg. A tabloid newspaper accuses Jagger of taking drugs with the Moody Blues. He threatens to sue.
Jagger, Richards and Marianne Faithful attend the orchestral recording session for The Beatles' song A Day In The Life.
Police raid Richards' Sussex home, Redlands. Jagger is found with four Italian 'pep' pills in his pocket.
En route to a break in Morocco, asthmatic Jones is admitted to hospital in Toulouse, France, with respiratory difficulties on Feb 28 - his 25th birthday. The others continue the journey without him, stopping in Barcelona. Richards then takes Anita on a four-night detour to Marbella.
March: On reaching Tangier, Anita asks Marianne to accompany her back to Toulouse to collect Jones and return to London.
Marianne, Anita and Jones eventually fly out to join the group in Marrakesh. Days later, Jones goes to the Atlas Mountains to record the ethnic music of the JouJouka. When he gets back to the hotel he finds that everyone has left without him, without leaving a note.
He learns that Richards and Anita have become lovers - things are never the same again between him and the band he created. Richards claims to have "rescued" Anita from Brian's abuse and physical violence.
Jagger and Richards are issued with court summonses on March 18. They start a three-week European tour in Sweden on March 25 (the tour ends on April 17). They experience greater tension from local police and customs officials because their shows are increasingly associated with crowd violence and drugs offences.
April: The band play their first concert behind the Iron Curtain in Warsaw.
May: Jagger and Richards appear before Chichester Crown Court to face charges following the Redlands drugs bust. Jagger is charged with unlawful possession of amphetamines and Richards for allowing cannabis to be smoked on his property. Both plead not guilty and are released on bail.
Brian Jones is arrested at his Kensington home on the same day on a separate drugs-related offence. He later appears before a west London magistrate as is bailed. Paul McCartney offers him the use of his St John's Wood home to help him maintain a lower profile and is said to be upset at the way the police are harassing the Stones.
Jagger attends The Beatles' recording of Baby, You're A Rich Man at Olympic Sound Studios.
June: Jones is invited to play sax on John Lennon's track 'You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)' at the Abbey Road Studios.
US album chart entry: June, Flowers reaches No 3.
Jagger, Richards, Jones and Marianne Faithfull are in the audience for the televised recording of All You Need Is Love for The Beatles' part in the BBC show Our World. It is watched by an estimated global audience of 400 million.
Jagger is found guilty of possessing drugs following a jury's five-minute deliberation. The judge defers sentencing.
Richards' trial begins. Arresting officers recount the scenes they found on entering his house. Infamously, this allegedly includes the sight of Marianne Faithfull in the nude and "euphoric state" with only a fur rug to clothe her. The tabloid press goes into overdrive and Jagger has to spend the night in Lewes prison.
He is found guilty and sentenced to a year in prison. Jagger is sentenced to three months. He is taken to Brixton prison in tears and handcuffs. Richards is taken to Wormwood Scrubs. Their legal teams begin appeal proceedings. They are freed pending appeal and have to surrender their passports
The editor of The Times, William Rees-Mogg, writes an editorial under the headline 'Who Breaks A Butterfly On A Wheel'. The piece criticises the legal decisions and asks whether Jagger is being punished as a symbol of his rebellious generation. It stirs up unexpected public support.
July: The Stones, record We Love You at Olympic Sound Studios with Lennon and McCartney on backing vocals.
The Court Of Appeal quashes Richards' sentence. Jagger's conviction stands but he is given a year's conditional discharge.
August: The single We Love You is released. Jagger and Marianne join The Beatles at the Maharishi Marhesh Yogi's seminar in Wales.
Chart entry: August, We Love You reaches No 8 (UK).
Chart entry: August, Dandelion/We Love You reaches No 14 (US).
September: The Stones part company with Loog Oldham.
October: Jones is sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for drugs offences, causing a public demonstration on King's Road in protest. Eight people are arrested including Jagger's brother, Chris.
November: Jones is granted bail on the grounds of his fragile physical and psychological state. He is ordered to pay £750 and to see a court-appointed psychiatrist.
Chart entry: November, She's A Rainbow reaches No 25 (US).
The new album, Their Satanic Majesties Request, is released in the US.
US album chart entry: November, Their Satanic Majesties Request reaches No 2.
UK album chart entry: December, Their Satanic Majesties Request reaches No 3.
December: Jones's sentence is cut to three years' probation and a £1,000 fine.
Chart entry: December, In Another Land (US)
The Rolling Stones are voted Best British R&B Group in a New Musical Express poll. Brian Jones collapses and is rushed to a London hospital suffering from exhaustion.
January 1968: Brian Jones attends the recording of Jimi Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower at Olympic Sound Studios.
March: The band starts work on a new album at Olympic Sound Studios. Shirley and Charlie Watts' daughter, Serafina, is born.
May: Jagger announces that he is to star in a film called Performance.
They perform Jumpin' Jack Flash and (I Can't get no) Satisfaction band at the New Musical Express Poll Winners party. Jones is arrested at his Chelsea home for possessing cannabis.
Chart entry: May, Jumpin' Jack Flash reaches No 1 (UK) and No 3 (US).
June: They invite the film director Jean-Luc Godard to record their sessions at Olympic Studios for One Plus One - a film that will track their work on Sympathy For The Devil in the studio.Jones denies possessing drugs. The Stones release the single Street Fighting Man in the US.
Chart entry: August, Street Fighting Man reaches No 48 (US).
August: Cream disbands. It is rumoured that Eric Clapton may join the Stones.
Jones leaves for Morocco with new girlfriend Suki Poitier to work on a solo album and record the music of Master Musicians of JouJouka.
The release of the new album Beggar's Banquet is delayed because of disputes with the record company over the 'lavatory scene' designed for the sleeve.
September: The single Street Fighting Man is banned in Chicago. Filming starts on Performance in London. It includes a part for Anita Pallenberg as well as Jagger. Marianne Faithfull's film Girl On A Motorcycle is premiered in London.
Jones is found guilty of possessing cannabis and fined £50.
Beggars Banquet
October: Decca blocks the issuing of Beggars Banquet with the 'graffiti covered toilet seat' sleeve on the grounds of poor taste. Jagger tells the press that an exploding bomb on Tom Jones's album sleeve Atomic Jones is more offensive.
Marianne Faithfull announces that she is pregnant.
US album chart entry: November, Beggar's Banquet reaches No 5.
November: Brian Jones buys Cotchford Farm in Sussex, the former home of A.A. Milne, creator of Winnie The Pooh.
Marianne is taken to a maternity home where she loses her baby. The press speculates that the Stones are to split. The documentary film One Plus One premieres in London.
December: Beggars' Banquet is released in Britain with a press reception at Gore Hotel in London. The event ends in custard pie throwing.
UK album chart entry: December, Beggar's Banquet reaches No 3.
The Rolling Stones are voted Best British R&B Band in NME's annual pop poll. The Rolling Stones' Rock 'n' Roll Circus is filmed. It is in the style of a variety show mixed with rock 'n' roll, clowns and trapeze acts. John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Marianne Faithfull, Taj Mahal, The Who, Mitch Mitchell, Jethro Tull and Eric Clapton take part. The film isn't released because the Stones are said to be unhappy with it.
Keith Richard's celebrates his 25th birthday in Brazil with Anita, Jagger and Marianne.
March 1969: They start work on a new album at Olympic Sound Studios in London.
May: Jagger and Marianne announce that they are to star in the Australian film Ned Kelly. They are arrested for possession of cannabis resin following a police raid on Jagger's home.
Former John Mayall's Blues Breakers guitarist Mick Taylor plays his first session with the Stones at Olympic Sound Studios. Unbeknown to him, he is being considered for joining the group.
June: Jagger, Richards and Watts go to Cotchford Farm to sack Brian because of musical differences. The meeting is said to be friendly and he is offered a £100,000 settlement.
Richards crashes his car near his home. Anita's collarbone is broken but her baby - she is heavily pregnant - is unharmed. The same day Jagger and Faithfull attend Blind Faith's free concert at Hyde Park, which is said to give Mick his idea for a similar Stones "comeback" show.
Brian Jones officially parts company from the band on June 8 and Mick Taylor is announced as his replacement.
Mick Taylor joins them in a photocall in Hyde Park on June 13.
July: Brian Jones, now 27, is found dead on July 2/3 in a swimming pool at Cotchford Farm. A coroner later records a misadventure verdict.
The Rolling Stones' free Hyde Park concert goes ahead as planned on July 5, although the initial concept for a "comeback" show becomes more of a wake for Jones. More than 250,000 fans turn up and thousands of white butterflies are released as Mick Jagger reads from Shelley's "Adonais" in Brian's honour.
Mick and Marianne fly to Sydney to start filming on Ned Kelly. Jagger's contract with the filmmakers prevents him from attending Jones' funeral.
On July 8, Marianne is found unconscious in their hotel room in Australia after overdosing. She falls into a long coma and another actress takes over her part in the film.
Chart entry: July, Honky Tonk Women reaches No 1 (UK) and No 1 (US).
Bill and Diane Wyman's divorce is announced on July 9. Brian Jones' funeral takes place on July 10 in Cheltenham. Other group members attend and the town is packed with mourning fans. His epitaph reads: 'Please don't judge me too harshly'.
Filming starts on Ned Kelly on July 13 (it ends in September).
August: Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg's son Marlon Richards is born at King's College Hospital, London. Jagger suffers a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his hand but is able to return to the Ned Kelley set a few days later.
US album chart entry: September, Through The Past Darkly reaches No 2.
October: They fly to Los Angeles to start preparing for their next American tour.
November: The sixth north American sell-out tour opens in Colorado on Nov 7 (the tour ends on Dec 6).
US album chart entry: November, Let It Bleed reaches No 3.
Reports emerge that Warner Bros may not release Performance in the US because they find the Cockney accent unintelligible.
December: The final concert of the American tour, and probably the most infamous in the Stones' history, takes place at Altamont, California, on Dec 6. The show ends in tragedy, when Hell's Angels - there to provide concert security - turn violent and fail to keep control of the crowd.
Fights break out and Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by an Angel. There are many injuries and according to some reports, four births. The Stones' pleas for restraint are ignored, and the stage is stormed. They are airlifted to safety. The events are all captured on film.
Anita Pallenberg is told on Dec 8 that she must get married or leave England.
UK album chart entry: December, Let It Bleed reaches No 1.
Jagger is fined £200 for possession of cannabis at a London court. Marianne is acquitted.
The Stones end the year with two Christmas shows in London.
Seventies and Eighties
March 1970: First European tour for three years announced on March 14 but the start is postponed by four months.
May: Jones's debts are reported to be more than five times his assets but his estate is due royalties from songwriting earnings.
June: The premiere for Ned Kelly takes place in London. Jagger starts dating American actress Patti D'Arbanville, according to press reports. Ned Kelly is premiered near Melbourne, Australia.
Chart entry: July, Street Fighting Man reaches No 21 (UK).
July: Their recording contract with Decca ends but the band is reminded that it owes the company another single, so they write Cocksucker Blues, an X-rated track that can't be released.
August: Mick Taylor is made an official band member on Aug 1, the day after the Decca contract expires.
September: Their European tour begins in Sweden (the tour ends on Oct 9). The Get Yer Ya Yas Out! album is released.
UK album chart entry: September, Ger Yer Ya Yas Out! Reaches No 1.
US album chart entry: September, Get Yer Ya Yas Out! Reaches No 6.
October: Jagger visits London with new girlfriend, the Nicaraguan Bianca Perez Morena de Macia. He is ordered to pay costs in John Dunbar's divorce from Marianne Faithfull. The documentary film Gimme Shelter, which follows last year's American tour, including scenes from Altamont, is screened in New York.
January 1971:The British premiere of Performance is held. Jagger and Rose Miller Taylor's daughter Chloe is born in Wimbledon, London.
March: Their 'Goodbye Britain' tour begins on Mar 4 in Newcastle, confirming expectations that the Stones will become tax exiles in France (the tour ends on March 26).
An open letter signed by the entire group is published as an ad, disapproving of Decca's release of Stone Age - a compilation album that they've had no part in. They're filmed for television performing at the Marquee Jazz Club.
April: They host a farewell party in Maidenhead, before leaving for France. Marshall Chess becomes head of Rolling Stones Records in the US and Trevor Churchill his UK counterpart. The group signs a distribution deal with the Kinney Group to handle global distribution of Rolling Stones Records products.
Chart entry: April, Brown Sugar reaches No 2 (UK).
UK album chart entry: April, Sticky Fingers reaches No 1.
May: Jagger marries pregnant Bianca in a civil ceremony in St Tropez. The Stones, The Beatles, family and friends attend but, to Jagger's dismay, the local mayor refuses to evict the media, which turns up en masse.
Chart entry: May, Brown Sugar reaches No 1 (US).
Richards is involved in a road accident and subsequently appears in court on assault charges after an altercation with the other driver. Gimme Shelter is screened at the Cannes film festival.
June: Shirley Watts is arrested in Nice for assaulting French customs officials at the airport.
Chart entry: June, Wild Horses reaches No 28 (US).
US album chart entry: June, Sticky Fingers reaches No 1.
July: Richards and Pallenberg attend the British premiere of Gimme Shelter.
August: Jagger, Richards, Wyman, Watts and Brian Jones's father launch a complex law suit again Andrew Loog Oldham and Eric Easton over alleged irregularities relating to earnings under the Decca contract.
October: Rolling Stones Records releases the album Brian Jones Presents The Pipes Of Pan. Bianca Jagger gives birth to daughter, Jade, in Paris. They start working on a new album at the Sunset Sound Studios, L.A., and Jagger and Bianca go house hunting in California.
December: French magistrates accept that Richards acted in self-defence following his road accident in May. Charges are dropped. Decca releases the double compilation album Hot Rocks 1964-1971.
February 1972: Decca releases another anthology album called Milestones.
April: Anita Pallenberg gives birth to daughter Dandelion in Geneva, Switzerland. The baby's name is later changed to Angela.
Chart entry: April, Tumbling Dice reaches No 5 (UK) and No 7 (US).
NME sells an unprecedented 300,000 copies of an issue which includes a free Rolling Stones flexi-disc to promote Exile On Main Street.
May: They start rehearsing in Montreux, Switzerland, for their forthcoming North American Tour. The double-album Exile On Main Street is released on Rolling Stones Records.
June: Their seventh tour of North America opens in Vancouver on June3. Thirty policemen are injured as 2,000 fans attempt to gatecrash (tour ends on Jul 26).
Chart entry: June, Happy reaches No 22 (US).
UK album chart entry: June, Exile On Main Street reaches No 1.
US album chart entry: June, Exile On Main Street reaches No 1.
July: One of their tour trucks containing vital stage equipment is destroyed by a bomb in Montreal planted by a separatist group. Their management locates replacement gear from local suppliers and the concert is only delayed by 45 minutes. Stevie Wonder joins them on stage for the final date of the tour in New York's Madison Square Garden.
August: Richards, Anita Pallenberg and their children move to a chalet in Montreux, Switzerland.
September: In Nice, French police arrest Watts and Wyman for drugs possession.
October: Their legal battle against Easton, Loog Oldham, Allen Klein, Decca and London Records reaches the High Court.
November: Wyman is fined £20 for speeding and is banned from driving for six months by Chelmsford magistrates. Jagger records the backing vocals for Carly Simon's single You're So Vain. They get together in Kingston, Jamaica, to start recording sessions.
December: Police obtain warrants in Nice for the arrests of Richards and Anita Pallenberg. Richards buys a new home called Point Of View in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. Jagger, Wyman, Watts and Taylor meet French police to clear their names of involvement in alleged drug offences. An earthquake devastates Nicaragua . The Jaggers fly there after Christmas to find Bianca's family and take vital medicines.
January 1973: There is confirmation that the couple have arrived safely in Managua after fears mounted that they may have come to harm. Jagger's drugs conviction prevents him from entering Japan where the band is due to play six record-breaking sell-out shows. Despite this, they are voted Group Of The Year and Jagger, Best Vocalist, in a Japanese magazine poll three months later.
They're voted Best Band Of 1972 by Billboard Magazine. The Nicaraguan Earthquake Benefit Concert, arranged by Jagger, goes ahead in the US at the LA Forum, Inglewood. More than £350,000 is raised through fundraising efforts.
Their Far East Winter Tour starts with two nights in Honolulu on Jan 21 and 22 (the tour ends on Feb 27).
March: They start mixing tracks for their new album in L.A.
April: California State University announces a new degree course in rock music with Jagger and Richards listed as guest performers to help students.
June: Jagger denies rumours that Richards is leaving the band. Richards announces solo plans to work with a Rastafarian group.
Actress Marsha Hunt files an application for child support payments at Marylebone Magistrates court, claiming that Jagger is the father of her daughter Karis. The court orders blood tests.
Richards is arrested in Chelsea and charged with possessing cannabis, a firearm and ammunition without a licence. He is remanded on bail.
Jagger denies rumours that his marriage is struggling when it emerges that Bianca will not travel with him on the band's next tour. Richards' Sussex home, Redlands, is severely damaged by fire. No one is hurt.
August: Tickets for the forthcoming UK tour sell-out so quickly that more dates are added.
Chart entry: August, Angie reaches No 5 (UK) and No 1 (US).
They are forced to cancel a concert at Pembroke Castle in south Wales because local officials fear another 'Altamont'. The album Goats Head Soup is released.
September: The European tour opens in Vienna on Sept 1 (the tour ends on October 19).
UK album chart entry: September, Goats Head Soup reaches No 1.
US album chart entry: September, Goats Head Soup reaches No 1.
October: Richards and Anita Pallenberg are given suspended prison sentences by a court in Nice and orders to pay £500 each. Richards is fined £205 for possession of various drugs, firearms and ammunition. Anita Pallenberg receives a conditional discharge for possessing Mandrax.
November: New recording sessions start in Munich.
Chart entry: December, Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) reaches No 15 (US).
January 1974: Wyman starts work on a solo album in LA.
February: Richards and Pallenberg are banned from entering France by the French government. Jagger again denies rumours that his marriage is in difficulty.
April: Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones' - a film about their US tour - is previewed in New York.
July: Richards appears with Ronnie Wood on stage at a north London cinema.
Chart entry: July, It's Only Rock 'n' Roll reaches No 10 (UK) and No 16 (US).
In a letter, Jagger reassures fans that the band is marking the anniversary of Jones's death with donations to a United Nations children's charity that Jones had supported. NME calls Richards "the world's most elegantly wasted human being".
August: Rumours start that Richards has undergone a complete blood transfusion in Switzerland.
October: Jagger claims that he only married Bianca because she resembled him. He is later spotted with Nathalie Delon in Paris in late October.
UK album chart entry: October, It's Only Rock 'n' Roll reaches No 2.
US album chart entry: October, It's Only Rock 'n' Roll reaches No 1.
Chart entry: October, Ain't Too Proud To Beg reaches No 17 (US).
December: They begin new recording sessions in Munich. Mick Taylor leaves the Stones to join the Jack Bruce Band.
January 1975: Several leading guitarists visit the band in Munich hoping to replace Taylor.
March: It's reported that Jagger has agreed an out-of-court settlement with Marsha Hunt for an undisclosed sum. Ronnie Wood joins them in Munich to continue recording sessions. They announce that Ronnie Wood will join them as a 'guest' performer on the new American tour.
May: They perform Brown Sugar from the back of a flatbed truck driving through central New York to announce the new tour.
Chart entry: May, I Don't Know Why reaches No 42 (US).
Ronnie Wood leaves them briefly to join The Faces, whose tour overlaps with theirs.
June: The 1975 Tour Of The Americas starts at Louisiana State University, LA, on Jun 1 (the tour ends on Aug .
UK album chart entry: June, Metamorphis reaches No 45.
US album chart entry: June, Metamorphis reaches No 8.
UK album chart entry: June, Made In The Shade reaches No 14.
US album chart entry: June, Made In The Shade reaches No 6.
Richards and Wood are arrested on an Arkansas highway and charged with possession of an offensive weapon - a tin opener with a blade attachment. They are released on bail.
Chart entry: September, Out Of Time reaches No 45 (UK) and No 81 (US).
October: Wood joins the band in Montreux to start recording a new album. US magazine Creem names them the Best live band, Best R&B band and Made In The Shade, Best album re-issue.
January 1976: Jagger is named best dressed musician by NME.
February: Wyman releases his solo album Stone Alone. Wood is officially announced as the new member of the band.
March: Richards and Pallenberg's son Tara Jo Jo Gunne Richards is born in Geneva.
April: European Tour opens in Frankfurt (it ends on Jun 23). The album Black And Blue is released.
Richards crashes his Bentley in Buckinghamshire but he, Pallenberg and son Marlon escape unhurt. Police find 'substances' in the wreckage and he is arrested. Newspapers speculate that he might have been used as an unwitting drugs courier.
Chart entry: April, Fool To Cry reaches No 6 (UK) and No 10 (US)
May: Jagger meets Bryan Ferry and his girlfriend Jerry Hall backstage at the Earl's Court concert.
UK album chart entry: May, Black And Blue reaches No 2
US album chart entry: May, Black And Blue reaches No 1
June: Richards's ten-week-old son Tara dies of a mystery virus. White and stricken, he plays on at the Paris concert and insists that the tour plans are not disrupted.
August: Richards appears in court at Newport Pagnel and is charged with possession of cocaine. He pays £100 bail.
They headline at the Knebworth festival with their longest set list before 200,000 fans. More rumours surface about tensions in the Jagger marriage.
September: Jagger attends a Sex Pistols gig in London. Richards appears at the Newport Pagnell court hearing and elects to go to trial. Bail is set at £5,000.
October: Ronnie and Krissie Wood's son Jesse James Wood is born in Hollywood.
January 1977: Richards is found guilty of possessing cocaine at Aylesbury Crown Court and is fined £750 and further costs of £250. Mick is present for support.
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards after Richards's Aylesbury court appearance
February: They announce that EMI will be the new global distributor for Rolling Stones Records. Richards is fined £25 for driving without tax.
Cannabis is found in Pallenberg's luggage as she and Richards go through customs at Toronto airport, ready for a new tour. She is released without charge but days later both are arrested and charged. She is fined $400 and Richards is remanded in custody.
Canadian police search their room and further charges for possession of cocaine and possession of heroin for the purpose of trafficking are brought. Richards is released on $1,000 bail.
March: Margaret Trudeau, the glamorous wife of Canadian premier Pierre Trudeau, throws a party for the band after their opening gig at El Mocambo club. She continues to socialise backstage at other venues on the tour.
Richards appears at Toronto's Old City Hall Court. Pallenberg pleads guilty to possessing heroin and cannabis and is ordered to pay $400. Richards is remanded on bail to appear on June 27.
April: Richards and Pallenberg start treatment for heroin addiction. Richards' treatment programme gets in the way of court appearances and his hearing is rescheduled for July 19. In Germany, fans raise a collection to pay his fees and demonstrate outside the Canadian embassy to support him.
July: Richards misses his court appearance because of drug addiction treatment in New York.
September: The band launches the new live album at the Marquee Jazz Club in London without Richards. The concert film premiere of 'Ladies And Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones' takes place at the Rainbow Theatre in London.
UK album chart entry: September, Love You Live reaches No 3.
US album chart entry: September, Love You Live reaches No 5.
November: Jagger flies to Morocco with Jerry Hall.
December: Richards's Toronto court hearing is postponed until October '78.
Bianca Jagger leaves London amid rumours of a pending divorce.
January 1978: Watts joins a skiffle group on stage in Swindon.
February: Krissie Wood is involved in a car crash and taken to hospital with minor injuries.
March: Krissie Wood files for divorce, citing model Jo Howard in her petition.
May: Bianca Jagger files for divorce in London but it takes her lawyers nine months to track down and serve the papers on her husband.
Chart entry: Miss You reaches No 3 (UK) and No 1 (US).
June: Their ninth tour of north America opens in Florida. Tickets for the first show sell out in less than two hours and advance ticket sales for the tour total more than $1,000,000.
UK album chart entry: June, Some Girls reaches No 2.
US album chart entry: June, Some Girls reaches No 1.
July: Jagger, Richards and Wood join Muddy Waters onstage for an impromptu gig in a Chicago club. The tour ends ends in Oakland, California on Jagger's 35th birthday.
September: Watts and Wyman attend the funeral of The Who drummer Keith Moon.
Chart entry: September, Respectable reaches No 23 (UK).
Chart entry: September, Beast Of Burden reaches No 8 (US).
October: Wood and Jo Howard's daughter, Leah, is born in Los Angeles.
Richards' trial in Toronto starts before Judge Lloyd Graburn. The charge of trafficking is dropped to possession of heroin. He pleads guilty. He is given a one year suspended prison sentence and ordered to give a charity concert.
December: Richards's first solo single Run Rudolph Run is released in the US on Dec 3.
Japan lifts its six-year ban on Jagger and the band. The band is voted Artists of the year and is awarded Album of the year for Some Girls in a Rolling Stone Magazine poll.
Chart entry: December, Shattered reaches No 31 (US).
January 1979: They meet in Nassau to start recording new material
April: Bianca's lawyers serve divorce papers on Jagger in New York.
They perform their only live performance of the year in Toronto in aid of the Canadian Institute for the Blind. The show is arranged by Richards to meet the conditions of his sentence.
May: Jagger's divorce proceedings start with a High Court hearing in London. A Los Angeles judge orders him to maintain his wife in the 'sumptuous' style she is used to.
July: Bianca claims she's unable to continue aid work in Nicaragua because she is having difficulty raising money for her flight.
Seventeen-year-old Scott Cantrell shoots himself in Richards's New York state home. Pallenberg is there at the time of the incident and is charged with illegal possession of firearms.
September: Wyman plays with Ringo Starr and other artists at the Jerry Lewis Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy.
November: Bianca divorces Jagger and wins custody of their daughter Jade. A Grand Jury clears Pallenberg of any involvement in the death of Scott Cantrell.
December: Richards meets Patti Hansen at his birthday party in New York.
February 1980: Wyman announces that he plans to leave the band on its 20th anniversary.
Wood and Jo Howard are arrested and charged with possession of cocaine but later released when evidence reveals that the drug was planted on them.
Chart entry: June, Respectable reaches No 9 (UK).
Chart entry: June, Emotional Rescue reaches No 3 (US).
UK album chart entry: July, Emotional Rescue reaches No 1.
US album chart entry: July, Emotional Rescue reaches No 1.
The film Cocksucker Blues is screened in New York on Sept 16.
September: Jagger buys a chateau in the Loire Valley.
Chart entry: September, She's So Cold reaches No 33 (UK) and No 26 (US).
October: Recording sessions for a new album begin in Paris.
November: Bianca Jagger's divorce settlement is set at approximately £1,000,000 during a private High Court hearing in London.
January 1981: Jagger flies to Peru with Jerry Hall to film Fitzcarraldo. He abandons the project a month later.
March: They release the anthology album Sucking In The Seventies in America. Many shops shops refuse to stock it because of the title.
US album chart entry: March, Sucking In The 70s reaches No 15.
June: Wyman sues the Daily Star for claiming he is quitting.
July: Wyman's solo single Je Suis Un Rock Star is released in the UK.
August: Rehearsing begin for a new tour in Massachusetts.
Chart entry: August, Start Me Up reaches No 7 (UK) and No 2 (US).
September: They play a small 'thank you' concert at Sir Morgan's Cove for residents of Worcester, Massachusetts, where they rehearsed for an upcoming tour.
UK album chart entry: September, Tattoo You reaches No 2.
US album chart entry: September, Tattoo You reaches No 1.
September: Jagger grants his only pre-tour face-to-face interview to two schoolgirls aged 12 and 13 writing for their school newspaper. The tour opens at JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, before a 90,000 fans on Sept 25 (the tour ends on Dec 19).
October: Jagger dines with Jacqueline Onassis. Wyman celebrates his 45th birthday at Disneyland, Florida.
Chart entry: November, Waiting On A Friend reaches No 50 (UK) and No 13 (US).
November: Jagger, Richards and Wood once again appear on stage with Muddy Waters - this time it is captured on film by the Stones' crew.
December: Mick Taylor makes a guest appearance on stage with them at Kansas City. The tour ends on Dec 19 having grossed $50 million in ticket sales and half as much again from merchandising, record sales and sponsorship.
1982: They win a number of accolades in Rolling Stone Magazine's annual awards: Band Of The Year, Best Vocalist for Jagger, Best Album for Tattoo You, Best Single for Start Me Up, Best Songwriters for Jagger and Richards, Best Instrumentalist for Richards.
Chart entry: April, Hang Fire reaches No 20 (US).
April: They start their first British tour for six years in Aberdeen. A tour of Europe follows, ending on Jul 25.
Chart entry: June, Going To A Go-Go reaches No 26 (UK) and No 25 (US).
UK album chart entry: June, Still Life (American Concerts) reaches No 4.
US album chart entry: June, Still Life (American Concerts) reaches No 5.
June: Wyman collects the British Music Industry's Award for Outstanding Achievement on behalf of the band.
September: Sixty-five firemen tackle another blaze at Richards' Sussex home Redlands.
Chart entry: September, Time Is On My Side reaches number 62 (UK)).
British publishers Weidenfeld & Nicolson sign a contract with Jagger for his memoirs. It is rumoured that Jerry Hall has started a relationship with millionaire racehorse owner Robert Sangster.
November: The band continue recording sessions in Paris. Richards announces that he plans to marry Patti Hansen.
January 1983: Jagger plays a Chinese Emperor in a production of the Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen on American television.
February: Let's Spend The Night Together - film documenting the Stones' '81 tour is premiered in New York.
April: Watts and Wyman join Alexis Korner on stage to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Marquee Jazz Club in London.
As he approaches 40, a British newspaper runs a story about Jagger's peak physical fitness now that his drink-and-drugs lifestyle is behind him.
August: Wood and Jo Howard's son Tyrone is born in New York. They sign the biggest deal in music history, for $28,000,000, with CBS.
Jerry Hall announces that she is pregnant.
Wyman announces his decision to split from long-term girlfriend Astrid Lindstrum. Watts performs at the Royal Albert Hall to raise funds for ARMS, the multiple sclerosis charity.
November: The BBC bans their video for Undercover Of The Night prompting Jagger to defend it on the Channel 4 music magazine The Tube.
Chart entry: November, Undercover Of The Night reaches No 11 (UK).
Chart entry: November, Undercover Of The Night reaches No 9 (US).
UK album chart entry: November, Undercover reaches No 3.
December: Richards marries Patti Hansen in Mexico, on his 40th birthday. Jagger is his best man and the only other band member present.
January 1984: Alexis Korner dies aged 55 on Jan 1.
The video for the single She Was Hot, featuring the trousers flies of band members popping open, is banned.
Chart entry: January, She Was Hot reaches No 42 (UK).
Chart entry: February, She Was Hot reaches No 44 (US).
March: Jagger and Jerry Hall's daughter, Elizabeth Scarlett, is born in New York.
April: The band reaches a legal settlement with Allen Klein and the case is dropped.
May: Jagger starts work on the single State of Shock with Michael Jackson in New York.
Chart entry: June, Brown Sugar reaches No 58 (UK).
UK album chart entry: Rewind 1971-1984 reaches No 23.
July: The forthcoming release of Jagger's solo album leads the media to speculate that the band may split.
August: The Beggar's Banquet album is re-mastered and released with its original sleeve by Decca.
September: Jagger's solo commitments cause tour plans to be postponed.
November: Band members meet in Amsterdam in November to discuss their future. Wood opens a portrait exhibition of musicians and friends in Dallas.
January 1985: Wood marries Jo Howard in Denham, Bucks. Jagger is the only Stone not to attend.
Jagger and Richard start work on a new album in Paris. Jagger releases his first solo single Just Another Night in the UK and US.
March: Keith and Patti Richards's daughter Theodora Dupree is born in New York.
July: Jagger performs with Hall & Oates and Tina Turner at Live Aid in Philadelphia. Richards and Wood perform an acoustic set with Bob Dylan, also in Philadelphia, but the band doesn't perform.
August: Watts breaks his leg in three places after falling at home in Devon.
Dancing In The Street by Jagger and David Bowie becomes a global disco hit. Jagger and Jerry Hall's son James Leroy Augustine is born in New York.
November:Watts appears with his 29-piece jazz band at Ronnie Scott's Club in London. Jack Bruce and Stan Tracey are in the band and Jagger, Richards and Wyman attend performances.
Work resumes on their new album in New York.
December: Ian Stewart dies unexpectedly of a heart attack in London aged 47. The death of the 'sixth Stone' - original member, road manager and backing musician - shatters them. They all attend his funeral in Leatherhead, Surrey.
January 1986: Richards inducts Chuck Berry into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame in New York.
February: The band performs a memorial show for Ian Stewart at The 100 Club, London, to an audience of 100 friends and family. No Stones tracks are included, only a selection of Stewart's favourite blues and R&B numbers. Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, Jeff Beck, Jack Bruce and Simon Kirk play with the band.
Eric Clapton presents the band with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammies in LA.
March: New album Dirty Work is released.
Chart entry: March, Harlem Shuffle reaches No 13 (UK) and No 5 (US).
UK album chart entry: March, Dirty Work reaches No 4.
US album chart entry: March, Dirty Work reaches No 4.
April: News of serious tensions between Jagger and Richards are reported on television show USA Today.
Watts and his orchestra start a weeklong series of performances at Ronnie Scott's Club.
May: They get together at Elstree Studios, London, to film a video for the single One Hit (To The Body).
Chart entry: May, One Hit (To The Body) reaches No 28 (US)
June: Jagger performs alongside David Bowie, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Tina Turner and Phil Collins for a Prince's Trust fundraiser before the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Wood and Richards both spend time working on individual music projects in the US. Patti and Richards' daughter Alexandra Nicole is born in New York.
July: Wood and Wyman join in a Faces reunion concert with Rod Stewart in Wembley, London.
Richards joins Bob Dylan for three nights in concert at Madison Square Garden, New York.
Jagger releases the soundtrack single Ruthless People for the film of the same name.
August: Sixteen-year-old Mandy Smith reveals the details of her relationship with Wyman to a British newspaper - she claims they have been seeing each other for the past two years.
Aretha Franklin releases her version of Jumpin' Jack Flash, which Wood and Richards have produced in the US.
September: Jagger announces plans to collaborate with Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics on his next solo album.
November: Watts and his 33-piece orchestra arrive in New York for an east coast tour.
December: Watts' first album with his orchestra Live At Fulham Town Hall is released. Richards attends the performance by Watts and the orchestra at The Ritz.
January 1987: Jerry Hall is arrested and charged with importing marijuana at Barbados airport. She spends the night in jail before being released on bail.
February: She is found not guilty on Feb 20.
April: Wyman launches his Aims (Ambition, Ideas, Motivation, Success) project in London to support unknown bands.
June: Watts and his orchestra perform at the Playboy Jazz Festival in Hollywood.
July: Richards signs a solo deal with Virgin Records.
August: Jagger releases his solo single Let's Work.
September: Jagger's solo album Primitive Cool is released. A British tabloid suggests that some tracks on Jagger's album contain critical comments about Richards.
October: A tribute film about Chuck Berry - Richards is its musical director - is premiered in New York. Wood opens an exhibition of his paintings of legendary musicians in London.
November: Wood starts on the North American Gunslingers' Tour in Columbus, Ohio. CBS releases the entire Stones back catalogue.
December: Wood opens his club, restaurant and gallery Woody's On The Beach in Miami. He performs with Bo Diddley for its opening night.
January 1988: Mick Taylor joins Wood onstage at the Miami Club.
Jagger inducts The Beatles into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in New York. He performs with Bruce Springsteen, George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Jeff Beck at the event.
February: A benefit concert arranged by Wyman for Great Ormond Street children's hospital takes place at the Royal Albert Hall. Elvis Costello, Phil Collins, Eddy Grant, Kenny Jones, Ian Drury and Chris Rea also perform.
March: Jagger and Wood meet in Osaka . Both are on tour in Japan with Jagger reportedly pocketing £1,000,000 per performance.
April: Jagger is cleared of copyright infringement charges for Just Another Night from his She's The Boss album.
May: They all get together for the first time in two years at a London hotel to discuss working and touring together again.
July: Wyman announces a book deal with Viking/Penguin. Jagger celebrates his 45th birthday by attending Jerry Hall's opening night in Bus Stop at a New Jersey theatre.
August: Jagger announces that there will be a new Stones album and tour next year.
Satisfaction is voted best single of the last 25 years by Rolling Stone magazine. Jagger says that he will stop touring when he's 50.
September: Wood's book The Works is launched in London.
October: Richards' first solo album Talk Is Cheap is released by Virgin Records. Richards plays at Smile Jamaica fundraising concert in London.
November: Wood receives undisclosed libel damages after a newspaper report suggested he had been unfaithful to his wife.
Richards and his band X-pensive Winos kick off their US tour in Atlanta.
January 1989: Pete Townshend inducts the Rolling Stones into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame in New York. Wyman and Watts don't show but Mick Taylor does. Watts joins them in New York to make plans.
February: Wyman performs at the Kampuchea Appeal concert in Britain.
March: They sign the biggest in rock 'n' roll deal in history with Concert Productions International. CPI will promote and handle all merchandising for their tour next year. They start recording their new album in Monserrat.
Mandy Smith announces her engagement to Wyman.
May: Wyman hosts a party to launch his Kensington restaurant Sticky Fingers.
They leave Monserrat for London to mix the new album. Newspapers report a row between Watts and Jagger in Amsterdam.
Wyman captains a celebrity team in a charity cricket match for terminally ill children. Eric Clapton presents Richards with a Living Legend Award.
June: Wyman, 52, marries Mandy Smith, 19, in a quiet ceremony in Bury St Edmunds.
The newlyweds celebrate with a white wedding in London. All of the Stones and 400 guests attend the Grosvenor House Hotel reception. Jagger gives the couple a £200,000 Picasso etching.
Jagger, Richards and Wood record the sounds of the Master Musicians of JouJouka, discovered by Jones in Morocco, for the track Continental Drift.
July: They announce the Steel Wheels Tour from Grand Central Station, New York. Approximately 500 journalists attend the press conference.
August: Steel Wheels starts with a small thank you show at Toad's Place, New Haven, for 500 people.
The first stadium show is held at Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia (the tour ends on Dec 19).
Chart entry: August, Mixed Emotions reaches No 36 (UK) and No 5 (US).
UK album chart entry: September, Steel Wheels reaches No 2.
September: They appear on the MTV Video Awards.
US album chart entry: September, Steel Wheels reaches No 3.
November: Chart entry: November, Rock And A Hard Place reaches No 63 (UK) and No 23 (US).
December: The final date on the north American takes place in Atlantic City. It's broadcast live on pay-per-view and features guest appearances by Axl Rose, Eric Clapton and John Lee Hooker.
Modern times
February 1990: From 14 - 27 they tour Japan for the first time. Half a million Japanese fans attend Steel Wheels.
March: Rolling Stone magazine nominates them for Best Band and Artists Of The Year for 1989, Best Album for Steel Wheels and Best Single for Mixed Emotions. Jagger is nominated Best Male Singer, Bill Wyman for Best Bassist and Charlie Watts for Best Drummer.
In London, Jagger announces a new tour for Europe: Urban Jungle. It will be completely different to Steel Wheels with a new stage and lighting and a different playing order.
May: Urban Jungle kicks off on May 18 with a show in Rotterdam.
June: Steel Wheels is named Tour Of The Year by ABC TV's International Rock Awards.
Chart entry: June, Almost Hear You Sigh reaches No 31 (UK) and No 50 (US)
July: The album Voodoo Lounge is released. Concerts scheduled for Wembley Stadium are postponed because a wound sustained to Richards' right index finger becomes infected.
January 1991: They record two new tracks for their live album Flashpoint: Highwire and Sex Drive.
February: Jagger starts work on the film Freejack with Emilio Estevez.
Chart entry: March, Highwire reaches No 29 (UK) and No 57 (US).
April: Flashpoint is released. The new solo album From One Charlie is promoted at Ronnie Scott's Club, London, by The Charlie Watts Quintet.
UK album chart entry: April, Flashpoint reaches No 6.
US album chart entry: April, Flashpoint reaches No 16.
May: Wyman and Wood accept the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution To British Music on behalf of the band.
Chart entry: May, Ruby Tuesday (Live) reaches No 59 (UK)
October: Live concert footage is screened in 8 IMAX cinemas worldwide on 100-foot screens.
November: Wood and Jo are injured in a major road accident on the M4 at Swindon. Wood injures his shoulders and breaks both his legs. Jo injures her back. They sign to Virgin Records on Nov 19. Jagger and Jerry Hall are married on Bali on Nov 21.
December: Richards' X-Pensive Winos live album is released on CD and video.
January 1992: Richards inducts Leo Fender into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame New York. Freejack is premiered in Hollywood.
July: Jagger becomes a grandfather when Jade, 20, gives birth to daughter Assissi.
August: Wood's releases his solo album Slide On This.
October: Richards releases his second solo album Main Offender.
November: Richards and the X-Pensive Winos go on tour in Europe.
December: Richards and his band perform in a small New York club. Wyman and Many Smith divorce.
January 1993: Wyman announces on London Tonight that he is quitting the band after 30 years. Wood performs solo with four concerts in Japan Richards' Main Offender tour opens in Seattle.
February: Wood appears with Rod Stewart for the recording of MTV Unplugged in L.A. Jagger appears on Saturday Night Live.
Jagger's third solo album Wandering Spirit is released. Wyman performs in a Faces reunion for the Brit Awards.
April: Jagger and Richards fly to Barbados to start writing a new album. Watts joins them a few days later.
July: They start work on the the album Voodoo Lounge at Wood's home in Ireland.
October: The Charlie Watts Quintet releases the album Warm & Tender.
November: Jump Back, an 18-track greatest hits CD, is released.
UK album chart entry: November, Jump Back reaches No 16.
1994: They are awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by MTV.
May: They announce on May 3 that bassist Darryl Jones with join them for the forthcoming Voodoo Lounge tour.
July: The Voodoo Lounge tour is kick-started on Jul 19 with a traditional thank you show at the RPM Club, Toronto, for 1,000 fans.
Chart entry: July, Love Is Strong reaches No 14 (UK) and No 91 (US).
UK album chart entry: July, Voodoo Lounge reaches No 1.
US album chart entry: July, Voodoo Lounge reaches No 2.
August: The first big show of the tour takes place at Robert F Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Washington.
Chart entry: October, You Got Me Rocking reaches No 23 (UK)
November: They become the first rock 'n' roll band to broadcast live on the Internet from their Dallas show on Nov 18.
Whoopi Goldberg introduces them on stage for a performance that is filmed for commercial video release. She describes the band "that brought music to us that our parents told us we probably shouldn't be listening to, but a lot of our parents are here tonight. A lot of people have tried to mimic this band, but couldn't do it, because there is only one."
Chart entry: December, Out Of Tears reaches No 38 (UK) and No 60 (US).
January 1995: The Latin America leg of the tour opens in Mexico on Jan 14.
Chart entry: July, I Go Wild reaches No 29 (UK).
August: The tour closes in Rotterdam on Aug 30. Live recordings are made for the album Stripped.
October: Eric Easton dies on Oct 28, aged 67.
Chart entry: November, Like A Rolling Stone reaches No 29 (UK)
UK album chart entry: November, Stripped reaches No 9.
US album chart entry: November, Stripped reaches No 9.
May 1996: Richards becomes a grandfather when Marlon's daughter Ella Rose Richards is born.
October: Rock 'n' Roll Circus, which was filmed in 1968, premieres at a New York film festival. Rock 'n' Roll Circus is released on video and CD.
The Charlie Watts Quintet releases Long Ago And Far Away - an album of jazz and swing classics. Richards starts work on another solo album.
August 1997: They announce the Bridges To Babylon Tour by driving across Brooklyn Bridge in a red 1955 Cadillac convertible - with Jagger at the wheel - to greet the waiting media pack for photos in front of the Manhattan skyline.
September: The tour opens in Chicago on Sept 23. Wood's daughter Leah joins backing singers on stage when the show reaches Wembley Stadium.
Chart entry: September, Anybody Seen My Baby?' reaches number 22 (UK)
October: Wyman announces details of his new band The Rhythm Kings. Their first album Struttin' Our Stuff is released, featuring guest musicians Eric Clapton, Albert Lee, Georgie Fame and Peter Frampton. Wyman performs live for the first time since leaving the Stones, on Oct 16, at The Forum, London.
UK album chart entry: October, Bridges To Babylon reaches number 6.
US album chart entry: October, Bridges To Babylon reaches number 3.
December: Jagger and Jerry Hall's son Gabriel Luke Beauregard is born in New York. Reports claim that the Bridges To Babylon Tour of north America has already grossed nearly $87 million - a box office record.
August 1998: They perform in Moscow for the first time on Aug 11.
Chart entry: January, Saint Of Me reaches number 26 (UK) and No 94 (US).
Chart entry: August, Out Of Control reaches No 51 (UK)
November: The live album No Security is released.
UK album chart entry: November, No Security reaches No 67.
US album chart entry: November, No Security reaches No 34.
January 1999: Jerry Hall files for divorce from Mick Jagger. She wins an annulment because the courts don't recognize their Bali marriage.
June: They are fined £50,000 for staying on stage too long during a gig at a small London club, which breaches regulations.
July: Anna Wohlin, Jones's girlfriend at the time of his death, claims in a new book Death Of A Rolling Stone, that he was murdered. Jagger is confirmed as the father of Luciana Morad's baby son, Lucas, following DNA tests.
October: Jagger moves back into his former 'marital' home with Jerry Hall but they continue to live separate lives from different parts of the house.
November: Its Only Rock 'n' Roll is remixed and released as a Christmas single for charity.
January 2000: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction tops a US poll of the 100 greatest rock songs of all time. A spokesman for Tony Blair denies claims that Downing Street had vetoed a knighthood for Jagger in the Queen's New Years' honours list. Paul McCartney and Elton John are both Knighted.
March: Jagger returns to Dartford Grammar School to open a new arts center named after him.
May: They play a private pub gig in south London in memory of their long-term employee Jon Seabrook who died recently aged 58.
Band members join Jagger at the funeral of his 87-year old mother, Eva, on May 27.
June: Wood checks into the Priory Clinic in south London on Jun 30.
July: Jagger joins Marsha Hunt for the wedding of their daughter Karis in San Francisco.
December: Jade and her two children survive a car crash near their home in Ibiza. Jagger and Bianca rush to them and charter a jet to bring them back to Britain for treatment. Andrew Loog Oldham publishes his memoirs Stoned, which offers insights into the Stones' early years. Jerry Hall appears as Mrs. Robinson in the West End production of The Graduate.
March 2001: A British tabloid reports another rift between Jagger and Richards.
August: Jagger is joined in the studio by Bono, Pete Townshend, Lenny Kravitz, Missy Elliot and others, for the recording of his next solo album Goddess In The Doorway.
October: Jagger announces that the Stones will tour again.
November: Channel 4 screen a fly-on-the-wall documentary, Being Mick, which shows Jagger spending time with his children
Chart entry: Don't Stop.
UK album chart entry: Forty Licks.
May 2002: Tour dates are announced in New York - it will open in Boston in September. Plans to re-master and release twenty-two classic Stones albums are announced.
June: Jagger is knighted for services to music in the Queen's Golden Jubilee Birthday honours. Elizabeth Jagger becomes the new face of Lancome when she signs £150,000 deal with the cosmetics company.
October: Andrew Loog Oldham publishes the second installment of his memoirs, 2Stoned, charting the Stones' progress from 1964 to the height of their fame
April 2003: Jagger and Richards prepare to fight film producer Steve Woolley who is planning a film about the rise and fall of Brian Jones.
June: The European Licks tour begins in Munich, Germany.
August: details of a BBC documentary are disclosed in which Jerry Hall examines the phenomenon of the celebrity guru - with Jagger as one of her interviewees.
The band is forced to cancel a concert in Amsterdam after Jagger suffers a sore throat. The problem persists and the opening night in Britain is postponed.
Meeting Mick
The most famous lips in the world have turned 60. Their owner is, notoriously, a sex god, cricket maniac and the greatest rock 'n' roll performer in the world. But what's Sir Michael Philip Jagger like off stage? John Hind asks those who know
Marianne Faithfull (former girlfriend)
'Once he came straight off stage to the hotel where I was waiting and he was absolutely terrifying. He was like somebody possessed. I don't think he even knew who I was. He still had his make-up on and there was a froth of spittle around his mouth and his eyes were violent and he was making grunting sounds. He didn't say a word; just those god-awful grunts. He picked me up and slammed me against the wall. Several times. Afterwards, I don't think he even remembered it.'
Orsolya Dessy (Hungarian porn star)
'He's a deliciously sensitive man. He made sure I had a wonderful time. He said I had a lovely bottom. He was so charming, polite and considerate. I asked him for his favourite city and he replied, "Budapest - because if I hadn't come here, I wouldn't have met you." Such a true gentleman.'
Mrs Rolls-Wilson (as Mick calls her; Rolling Stones fan and Mick's neighbour in Richmond)
'When he moved in he popped round the back with a cup, asking for a cup of sugar as a way of introducing himself - "Hello, I'm Mick, your new neighbour." He's no woe at all. And his children are beautifully behaved. If all neighbours were as well behaved as Mick Jagger, there'd be fewer problems in this world. He looks very young for his age. When you see Michael playing with his kids in the garden, from the back, ohh, he looks like a firm young man. Oh, incredibly fit he is. I've no complaints at all.'
Mark Fisher (stage designer for the Rolling Stones)
'I was standing talking to him beside the stage of some giant stadium and it was pouring with rain. He was talking about how grossly unfair life was, that he should have to go out and do this show. Meanwhile, the opening of 'Not Fade Away' was beginning and he became more and more distracted, then disappeared into a complete trance. Then he spun around and marched on stage. It was like watching a shaman transporting himself from the everyday into private ecstasy.'
Richard Neville (editor of 'Oz')
'When he came to Sydney in 1965 I had deep, deep envy for his fame and rock 'n' roll energy. He was just unutterably groovy. And he'd walked into the Gaslash club having spent the night with one of my girlfriends. The moment he walked in, with this gorgeous Asian woman on his arm, and 'Route 66' playing on the sound system, I just felt absolutely at the complete cosmic centre of grooviness. I've been trying to win that moment back ever since. Some years later, in my Hustler moment, I acquired and published in Oz some nude frames excised from his film Performance. Let others be undignified and say he has an excellent-sized penis. All I'll say is he had nothing to be ashamed of.'
John Michel (author and old friend)
'He's essentially a great comedian, an early form of Ali G: he invented a character for himself and has kept it up. In the old days we used to go on excursions together, tripping to Wales to see the sites of ley-line crossings and UFO centres I was trying to interest him in investigating phenomena, but he'd direct us off to a pub in Winchcombe because he knew it was run by Tom Graveney, the old England cricketer, and really wanted to meet him.'
Barbara Hulanicki (creator of Biba)
'He'd come to my shop in Abingdon Road with Chrissie Shrimpton [his then girlfriend] on Saturday nights in the 1960s and while Chrissie was shopping he used to stand watching us counting the takings, which he was very interested in.'
Barbara Charone (ex-Stones press officer)
'One evening several EMI executives came to the studio to meet the Stones and listen to their first album for EMI Europe. One resembled a bank manager while the other had perfected the record company corporate image of what is hip. Jagger played them a 50-minute version of a reggae song called 'Jah Wonderful', seriously insisting it was the album. "Actually," Jagger comforted the bank manager-type, "we could cut it down to 45 minutes."'
Nicky Haslam (interior designer)
'Oh God, he's the most learned man I know. Practically the best read I've ever met. And you'll go to a church lost in a wood in France and he'll date it, saying, "I think this is May 1740." And he collects honey from his own hive of bees - I've seen him do it with huge relish, in the full gear. It's amazing what he can do.'
Christopher Simon Sykes (photographer)
'You never escape the fact he has the most famous face in the world. He once came to stay with me in Yorkshire and on Saturday morning we wen to Driffield, the local town. And we were in Boots the Chemist, and Mick was standing by the counter when a woman came up to him and said, "What are you doing here?" And he looked at her and said, very fast "I always do my shopping in Driffield on a Saturday." And then ten minutes later the entire population of Driffield descended on Boots and we had to get out of town. Then the Driffield Times came out with the wonderfully clichéd headline, a stone rolls into town and after that every single place claimed they'd seen Mick in their Post Office.'
David Hepworth (publisher)
'It's one of the most astonishing things you can ever do, to walk into rooms behind Mick. Because wherever he goes the room stops. It's the sheer level of fame. And it means that he hardly ever has a conversation which isn't about him. He's always at the centre. And he's incredibly sharp at working out what's just the minimum he can give. His idea is that what people want out of a famous person is being given just a little glimmer of the massive celebrity and legendary status. I attended a test match with him in Barbados - which he brought a little packed lunch along to each day - and saw his beach-hut at Bathsheba which he described as at "the chi-chi end of the downmarket". But you spend time with him and you feel you haven't got any nearer.'
Harriet Vyner (friend)
'We went for a meal together at a very posh restaurant in the West End. It was so repulsive - when Mick arrived the owner came smarming up and said, "Ahhh Mr Jagger, ahhh Mr Jagger, how marvellous to see you. You must, must come and stay in my hotel. You know we're very discreet there, Mr Jagger. You can bring your wife. Or your girlfriend. Or your dog." Mick had to keep brushing him aside and I realised it must happen all the time - this cajoling and repulsiveness. 'I remember Mick saying he'd "never want to be on Desert Island Discs, doing that awful nostalgia the English like". It's important to him, looking to the future, but there must be some other reason he doesn't talk about the past. Maybe it embarrasses him.'
Andrew Loog Oldham (the Rolling Stones' first manager)
'What Mick became is everything I told him he was. I don't think Mick and I could be together in the same room today without each having 10mg of valium. What's that they say about first wives? I read Mick saying at the time of his first solo album that he hadn't had a homosexual experience since leaving school. I'd just like to ask him at what age he thinks he left school.'
Harvey Goldsmith (promoter)
'I worked with him from the late 1960s until the tour before last - and Mick has been involved with every aspect of what the Stones do: doing deals, choosing promoters, choosing venues, choosing the production sound, lighting, set design... everything. Nothing happens without him saying yes or no. Nothing. There's no one better at masterminding PR than he is: about the band, him, relationships. His life is virtually in the press every day of the week - and it all comes from him. He goes to the right openings, the right galleries, the right parties - and he doesn't go to the wrong ones. And to some extent he's seen with the right women, whoever they might be at the time. Frankly, he's a complete control freak.'
Charlotte Edwardes (journalist)
'A friend of Mick's had asked if I'd like to join them at Tina Brown's Bafta party. Cristal champagne appeared, but he stuck with mineral water and said, "I've eaten already: I had spaghetti and fish-fingers at home with the kids, I skipped the ice-cream." He said he took 19 vitamins a day and spent most nights cuddled up with a hot water bottle with a Burberry cover. He also said, "I think it's vulgar to spend more than £4 million on a house." He was funniest when he was introduced to Jessica Callan, the Mirror 3am Girl. Rather than run a mile, like most big stars would, he told her he wanted to be mentioned in the "Surveillance" column, which mentions street sightings of stars. He spent a lot of time suggesting ideas for where he might have been seen: he wanted her to write that he'd been sighted shopping for a Magimix in the rue St-Honoré.'
Bella Freud (fashion designer)
Years ago I made a coat for Keith Richards and visited the studio to do a fitting, with a sewing friend of mine. We sat there spellbound watching them make music. Then Mick, vaguely bored, started to try and flirt and dance with us, and we were far too terrified to respond. "Bloody hell, you lot," he exclaimed, "you're a bunch of bloody nuns sitting in the background." I was quite pleased really - I felt I'd kept my integrity in spite of being completely dazzled.'
Diane Von Furstenberg (aristocrat and designer)
'I think of Mick and me in his kitchen looking through the school brochures to see where our children should go to school. There is a very serious side to Mick. If you are fundamentally serious - like he is, totally fundamentally serious, about his work, life, health, family - then one can pretend to be frivolous. But he's serious, serious, serious.'
Luciana Morad (model and mother of Mick's son Lucas)
'My God, he's funny. And you know, he really likes women. He can drive me crazy, just by the tone of his voice. But it's more than that. I don't know what it is, but he has got it and he knows it and that's the worst part. One thing I will say about Mick is that he gives Lucas imaginative toys. Mick always knows what will please a child - I suppose he's had plenty of practice.'
Tom Keylock (ex-jack-of-all-trades to Jagger)
'I can be heard singing the 'woo-woos' on the original 'Sympathy For The Devil' and I cooked for him and everything else. I'd had plastic surgery on me nose and on me face when I'd been in the army. And I'd had this skin graft from the side of me leg and me backside on to me face. And when I told Mick about it, he said, "So that's why you talk so much shit." I'd say there's two front men in this world. One's Jagger and the other's the Pope.'
John Richardson (art historian and acclaimed biographer of Picasso)
'I've stayed with Mick at his château, La Fourchette, and that's where you see a very different Mick. He got Alvilde Lees-Milne to lay out a marvellous formal walled garden and he became completely part of the garden, knew every single thing about all the plants, the flowers, the way the fruit trees were espaliered. And he got into wine and in no time at all he had a marvellous palate and a great cellar. And an eye for oriental art. There is nothing contrived about his wonderful country-house life. Big trestle tables under the chestnut trees with nanny and kids at one end and adults at the other - the children having buns, the adults smoking joints. Absolute paradise. I remember Mick was training for one of his tours there too - he used a dead straight local stretch of country road, so he could practise running backwards very fast. And you'd see a French farmer resting on his shovel or his hoe, watching the head of Mick Jagger above the hedge going back and forth, very fast backwards.'
Mary Waldegrave (housewife and mother)
'He's very gallant. Once we were both staying in the same country house party, and they had only a couple of records, one of which contained lots of slightly obscure Stones songs that I like: 'The Singer Not the Song', 'When Blue Turns to Grey', that sort of thing. And when 'Blue Turns to Grey' came on, I said, "I really love this one." And he said: "Well, let's dance to it then." And then, as we whirled round the floor, he smiled and said, "But I wouldn't have thought you were old enough to remember it."'
Paul Robinson (insurance salesman)
'I was a spectator at Trent Bridge and saw Mick in the bar and went up to him to try and get an autograph. I said, "Excuse me, Mr Jagger, but would you..." And he jumped to his feet and said, "...Have the next dance?" and proceeded to waltz me around the room.'
Christopher Gibbs (antique dealer and close friend)
'Mick did quite a lot for [Sir Paul] Getty, when he was not in a very happy or healthy time of his life and just watching television a lot. Mick used to go and see Paul, who was a neighbour, and Mick said to him, "Why are you watching all this rubbish? You could be watching the cricket." He patiently explained to him how cricket works. Mick knows his cricket pretty well and Paul quickly realised that here was something of infinite subtlety and enjoyment and worth being initiated into. 'Contrary to what people might think Mick is very constant in his affections and loyal in his friendships and good at keeping his friendships green - making sure he doesn't lose touch with people. He's a great, honourable chap.'
John Sandilands (writer)
'The Radio Times arranged for me to interview Mick in LA. Needless to say, it didn't happen as arranged. We located his hotel suite at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel and the most appalling animal noises were coming from behind the door. We knocked and he opened it in his underpants. We said, "We're from the Radio Times in London, Mr Jagger'. He looked us up and down for a minute and said, "Blimey, is all this coming out of my licence money?" [Later] the photographer couldn't move his tripod because it became snared in some knickers on the floor. We departed utterly wrecked.'
John Huddy (art dealer)
'I bumped into him in Nepal, where he was en route to his wedding in Bali. He seemed like he really wanted to talk to someone. He was going to Everest and Bhutan. He wore shorts, a T-shirt, a panama hat and had a Fodor's guide to Nepal in his hand - quite the regular tourist.'
Sir Bob Geldof
'I was eight years old, it was 1964, and I had my head stuck through the fire exit of the Adelphi Theatre in Dublin. Mick and Keith were balancing on the edge of the stage, pushing each other like kids, while Andrew Loog Oldham was in a back seat with his feet up, telling them to get on with their sound check. And Mick turned around and howled "F- Off!" to him. It was f-ing thrilling for me. I took home a cup and saucer that Mick had drunk out of - and I've kept it to this day. When I socialise with him now and we're having a cuppa, I love him still but there's no f-ing way I'd take his cup away with me.'
Mick Taylor (manager of the Mick Jagger Centre)
'We're an arts centre linked with the site of Dartford Grammar School, Mick's old school. The local symphony orchestra rehearses here and Mick has been incredibly supportive. I asked for one year's funding and he said, "Make it two."'
Keith Badgery (ex-driver)
'Mick swans around, jumping on private jets or Concorde. Yet he'll moan about how much a hay-fever drug costs in Britain and wait until he goes to the States to buy it. After their split, Mick wouldn't pay the bill for Jerry's journeys with me. A few times the invoice came back saying, "Don't charge Mick for that, that's Jerry."' lucy bannell journalist 'I was strolling around Kew Gardens when I spotted Mick Jagger walking towards me. In a star-struck way I squeaked, "Oh, hello." He looked me straight in the eye and said, "F- off." I remember turning bright red.'
Toby Young (author)
'I "snogged" and later took out a girl who gently explained to me that she couldn't really get involved with me because she was involved with another man, an extremely famous and virile man who had a bit of a reputation as a ladies' man but whose friends had all told her that it was different with her, serious. She said he had "the sexual stamina of a 17-year-old boy." Then to my shock it turned out that the third corner of this love triangle was Mick Jagger. Passed over for a grandfather - bit of a blow.'
Ahmet Ertegun (founder of Atlantic Records)
'I originally met him at a party, the first time the Stones came to America, long before I worked with him. And my first thought was that he just looked great, wonderful. You see, both women and men took to Mick. Baryshnikov felt the same as me. I once ran into Baryshnikov in a Washington hotel lobby and invited him to a Stones concert and he was flabbergasted. Afterwards he told Mick, "There's only two people who can dance like that - you and me."'
Marsha Hunt (mother of Mick's first daughter Karis)
'Mick and I only had approximately nine months together. But had it only been one night it would have been enough. Know what I mean?'
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There's also a Picture Gallery, which I don't know how to post, so here's the link to the page for those who would like to see the pretty piccies
oh give me a good guitar, and you can say that my hair's a disgrace
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THANKS HANNALEE,YES HOW DO YOU POST PICTURES ON THE BOARD...MAYBE SOME KIND SOUL WILL TELL US NEWBIES HOW TO DO IT? |
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You make sure the picture is located on some kind of web server.
Then, in your post you can place very easy tags:
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Nice avatar Soldatti!! |
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MANY THANKS ANGIEGIRL-YOU LOOK AB FAB!! |
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