Page 44 - Seniors Today - June 2021 Issue

Music

Satisfaction

Over The Years

These Rolling Stones have gathered a lot of mass, writes YR Anand

Honky Tonk Woman, Ruby Tuesday, Let’s
Spend The Night Together, (I can’t get no)
Satisfaction, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Sympathy
for the Devil; some of the songs that take
us back to the 60s, when rock music was
sweeping young audiences all across the
world.
The band that made these songs were
of course The Rolling Stones, who began
their career in 1962 in England. Like many
a legendary band, the genesis was two
childhood friends, Mick Jagger and Keith
Richards, who were in the same class in Kent
County in the 1950s.
Initially Mick Jagger and his friend David
Taylor started a garage band singing the well-
known blues music of Muddy Waters, Chuck
Berry and others. A few years later during
late in 1961, a chance encounter between

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