The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones, was listed at #4 in Forbes magazine's Celebrity 100 of 2007.

Satisfaction has the 2nd greatest guitar riff in history.

In 2006, The Rolling Stones, were listed as the richest in the music industry, with $150.6 million in earnings. Their Bigger Bang tour in 2006 grossed $138.5 million alone.

Mick Jagger, and Keith Richards , guest starred in The Simpsons episode, How I Spent My Strummer Vacation.

Sympathy for the Devil is ranked number 32 on The Rolling Stones list of the 500 greatest songs ever written.

The Rolling Stones are ranked number 4 on Rolling Stone's 100 greatest musical performers of all time.

Keith Richards and Mick Jagger are ranked the 2nd greatest song writing team by rock.com.

Satisfaction is ranked number 2 on Rolling Stone's list of the 1000 greatest songs ever written.

Queen pipped the Beatles to win the title of 'Greatest British Band of All Time' in a public vote. Queen polled 400 more votes than the Beatles in the poll conducted by BBC Radio 2, which asked listeners to choose between a list of five bands, also including The Rolling Stones, Take That and Oasis. Each group was judged on song-writing, lyrics, live gigs, originality and showmanship. Over 20,000 listeners voted in the poll. The Rolling Stones came third in the vote, followed by Oasis in fourth and Take That in fifth.

Start Me Up is played at the beginning of most NFL games.

Get Off My Cloud is ranked number 299 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

As Tears Go By is ranked number 484 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Let's Spend The Night Together" is ranked number 464 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

Mother's Little Helper is ranked number 399 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

Wild Horses is ranked number 365 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

Street Fighting Man is ranked number 308 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Midnight Rambler" is ranked number 303 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Tumbling Dice" is ranked number 265 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Shattered" is ranked number 249 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Ruby Tuesday" is ranked number 248 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Beast Of Burden" is ranked number 220 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"It's Only Rock And Roll" is ranked number 128 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Under My Thumb" is ranked number 126 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Angie" is ranked number 118 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Paint It Black" is ranked number 95 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Miss You" is ranked number 76 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Start Me Up" is ranked number 65 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Gimme Shelter" is ranked number 59 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"You Can't Always Get What You Want" is ranked number 57 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Honky Tonk Woman" is ranked number 28 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Sympathy For The Devil" is ranked number 19 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Jumpin Jack Flash" is ranked number 16 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Brown Sugar" is ranked number 14 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Satisfaction" is ranked number 2 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

The Rolling Stones song Jumpin' Jack Flash is ranked #64 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Rock & Roll.

The Rolling Stones song Start Me Up is ranked #83 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Rock & Roll.

The Rolling Stones are #67 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artist of Hard Rock.

The Rolling Stones hit #3 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart in 1964 with the release of 12 X 5.

The Rolling Stones hit #1 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart in 1965 with the release of Out Of Our Heads.

More than 1.500.000 people attended The Rolling Stones Copacabana Beach Show on February 18, 2006. This was the group's biggest audience of their career.

The Rolling Stones earned 2 Grammy Awards in 1987 and 1995, 1 Juno Award in 1991, 1 MTV Video Music Award in 1995, 1 MTV Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994 and 1 Q Award in 1990.

The Rolling Stones were signed with the recording labels of ABKCO, Decca Bootleg, Decca, Alex, Imports, Swingin Pig and Rolling Stones.

The Rolling Stones got their name from a song they borrowed from Muddy Waters.

When the The Rolling Stones appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show they were not allowed to sing their song Lets Spend the Night Together as it was. Sullivan made them change the lyrics.

Early in the The Rolling Stones career they played many Cover songs from various musical groups. Then band leaders Mick Jagger and Keith Richards , considered the greatest song writers of all times, began to write their own music. They had an already fan base and their songs just took off. They gained popularity with every new song that was written.

The Rolling Stones returned to their music style and proceeded to gain popularity. Selling more records again once they returned to their music the band then gained fame as the greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World.

In the late sixties the The Rolling Stones stayed away from their known music genre of hard rock and blues sound.

The Rolling Stones decided they wanted the Bad Boy image and that was their signature ever since the band began.

During the 1960's The Rolling Stones were second on the rating charts only having The Beatles over rank them.

The Rolling Stones are signed with the recording label of Virgin Records.

The Rolling Stones band members consisted of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ron Wood at the beginning.

The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.

The Rolling Stones appeared several times as guest stars on the TV series Toast of the Town. They appeared as themselves.

The Rolling Stones appeared many times on the TV series Top of the Pops.

The Rolling Stones were guest stars in the film Toronto Rocks in 2003.

The Rolling Stones song Sympathy for the Devil was the theme song used in the 1998 release of the movie Fallen.

The Rolling Stones appeared in the TV made show titles Hong Kong Rocks as themselves as the performers in 2004.

In 2003 The Rolling Stones were executive producers of the film Licks Around The World.

In 2003 The Rolling Stones were the producers of the film Rolling Stones: 4 Flicks.

In the 1990 movie hit Goodfellas, The Rolling Stones song Gimme Shelter was in the movie and on they were on posters that advertised the movie.

Paint it Black was the song The Rolling Stones were performers on in the movie Twisted Metal: Black in 2001.

The Rolling Stones hit song Heaven was used in the box office hit movie Vanilla Sky.

The Rolling Stones were performers in the film Life or Something Like it released in 2002. The song was I Can't Get No Satisfaction.

The Rolling Stones; See also:
Mick Jagger
Keith Richards
Ron Wood
Bill Wyman
Charlie Watts
Brian Jones
Mick Taylor