Top 20 Rolling Stones Hits
In April 1962, The Rolling Stones was formed with members Brian Jones, Ian Stewart, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, and Charlie Watts. This rock group with British R&B influences got its name from a song by Muddy Waters.
Former Beatles publicist Andrew Loog Oldham signed a management contract with “The Stones” in 1963 and began promoting them as “the bad boys of rock and roll,” compared to the impeccably clean image of the Beatles. Oldham also produced his first albums between 1964 and 1967.
The Rolling Stones’ first UK tour took place in 1964, along with the Ronettes.
His first American Top 40 hit came in 1964 with “Tell Me (You’re Coming Back)” followed by “It’s All Over Now.” They finally made it to the Top Ten with “Time Is On My Side”.
Shortly after leaving the group in 1969, guitarist Brian Jones drowned in his swimming pool in Sussex, England. Mick Taylor replaced Jones as guitarist and Ron Wood replaced Taylor in 1975. Wood had previously played in the bands The Jeff Beck Group and Faces with Rod Stewart.
The Rolling Stones were never without controversy. That includes the movie, “Gimme Shelter,” a documentary of his controversial 1969 Altamont concert, where someone in the audience was killed by a member of Hell’s Angels.
Chart-wise, the Rolling Stones had forty-one Top 40 hits between 1964 and 1989 and, according to the weekly Billboard charts, they hit # 1 eight times. His last Top 40 hit was “Rock And A Hard Place” in 1989.
Lead vocalist Mick Jagger tried to record solo and made the Top 40 four times, his biggest hit being a cover of Martha and Vandellas’s “Dancing In The Street.” He teamed up with David Bowie on this song, which was recorded at the Live-Aid benefit concert in 1985 and hit the Top 10. Jagger even hit No. 3 in 1984 as a guest vocalist on The Jacksons hit “State Of Shock.” . “
Here are the twenty biggest hits of the Rolling Stones, according to the Billboard charts.
1. Honky Tonk Female – 1969
2. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – 1965 – Otis Redding covered this Top 40 song in 1966.
3. Brown sugar – 1971
4. Get off my cloud – 1965
5. Paint it, black – 1966
6. I miss you – 1978
7. Angie – 1973
8. Ruby Tuesday – 1967
9. Start Me Up – 1981
10. XIX nervous breakdown – 1966
11. Emotional rescue – 1980
12. Jumpin ‘Jack Flash – 1968 – In 1986, Aretha Franklin took a version of this hit to number 21 on the weekly charts.
13. Harlem Shuffle – 1986
14. Mixed emotions – 1989
15. Time is on my side – 1964
16. As Tears Go By – 1966 – Marianne Faithfull reached the Top 40 with this hit in 1965.
17. Tumbling Dice – 1972 – Linda Ronstadt hit the Top 40 with a version of this Stones hit in 1978.
18. Beast of burden – 1978
19. Mothers Little Helper – 1966 – The “B” side of this single, “Lady Jane” reached # 24 on the weekly charts in 1966.
20. Undercover of the Night – 1983
The Rolling Stones won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement in 1986 and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989. Still going strong, the Rolling Stones continue to tour and record 46 years after hitting the charts. America for the first time. .