As legendary English rock band The Rolling Stones launch their first album in nearly two decades, we look back at standout moments in more than 60 years together.
12 July, 1962: a young band called The Rollin' Stones give their first concert at the Marquee Club, one of London's top jazz venues.
1964: their first album, The Rolling Stones, is a big hit in Britain.
January 1965: the band arrive in Ireland to the delight of their fans.
June 1965: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction comes out, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and catapults the band into the big time. The song has since been widely covered by artists from Aretha Franklin to Britney Spears.
1967: after a seizure of amphetamines at Richards' home, he and Jagger are handed prison sentences that are later cancelled after a popular outcry.
3 July, 1969: erratic, drugs-using guitarist Brian Jones, one of the band's founding members, drowns in his swimming pool at the age of 27 shortly after the band fired him.
6 December, 1969: a teenager is stabbed to death at a chaotic free concert headlined by the Stones in Altamont, California. The gruesome murder, caught on camera, is seen as symbolising the end of the 'peace and love' 60s.
1970: one of the most recognisable images in the music industry, the Rolling Stones' logo of ruby red lips, is created by a London design student for the poster of the band's European tour. Over the years it appears on countless band memorabilia. In 2008, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London buys the original drawings.
24 July, 1982: the band play one of the biggest concerts ever staged in Ireland as 70,000 fans pay £12 to see The Stones at Slane Castle, Co Meath. They would return in 2007.
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1985: Jagger releases a solo album, She's the Boss, sparking a war between the singer and Richards, who says he should be focusing on the band. He responds with his own solo record, Talk is Cheap (1988).
1995: Microsoft pays several million dollars for the rights to use the Stones song Start Me Up for the first Windows ad campaign.
8 February, 2006: over a million fans throng Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro for a free gig during the group's A Bigger Bang tour.
2022: they mark their 60th anniversary with a tour through Europe, but without drummer Charlie Watts, who died in 2021.
6 September, 2023: launch of their new album, Hackney Diamonds, at an event in east London.
Source: AFP
