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The Rolling Stones are the longest running act in the history of rock music, having remained wildly popular and crazy productive over their 30-year career. The group was formed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, who met as schoolmates, as the legend goes, on the platform at Dartford railway station, where Richard noticed a blues album under Jagger's arm. The pair go on to form a band with a variety of personnel, who eventually include a boogie-woogie pianist (Ian Stewart) and a gifted blonde blues guitarist from Cheltenham (Brian Jones). And in July 1962, they make their live debut at London's Marquee Club (minus Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts), taking their name from a Muddy Waters song called "Rollin' Stone Blues."

Jagger-Richards blossomed from 1965 to 1967 as songwriters -- Out of Our Heads brought forth "The Last Time" and "Satisfaction;" December's Children (And Everybody's) showcased "Look What You've Done," "Get Off My Cloud," and "As Tears Go By;" the all-original Aftermath reworked blues roots into exciting new hybrids, like Jones's gypsy hook on "Paint It Black;" and Between the Buttons with "Let's Spend The Night Together" and "Ruby Tuesday."