The Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records Jagger was carrying revealed to Richards a shared interest. Jagger next met Richards on 17 October 1961 on platform two of Dartford railway station. In the mid-1950s, Jagger formed a garage band with his friend Dick Taylor the group mainly played material by Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Howlin' Wolf, and Bo Diddley. The Jagger family moved to Wilmington, Kent, five miles (8.0 km) away, in 1954. Keith Richards and Mick Jagger became classmates and childhood friends in 1950 in Dartford, Kent.

History Early history The blue plaque commemorating Jagger and Richards meeting on Platform 2 at Dartford railway station in Dartford, on 17 October 1961 Billboard magazine and Rolling Stone have ranked the band as one of the greatest of all time. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004. The band has won three Grammy Awards and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. The Rolling Stones' estimated record sales of 200 million make them one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Their 2016 album, Blue & Lonesome, became their twelfth UK number-one album. From Wyman's departure in 1993 to Watts' death in 2021, the band continued as a four-piece core, with Darryl Jones playing bass on tour and on most studio recordings, while Steve Jordan became their touring drummer following Watts' death. Both releases were promoted by large stadium and arena tours, as the Stones continued to be a huge concert attraction by 2007 they had recorded the all-time highest-grossing concert tour three times, and as recently as 2021 they were the highest-earning live act of the year. Steel Wheels (1989) was widely considered a comeback album and was followed by Voodoo Lounge (1994), a worldwide number-one album. The band continued to release successful albums, including their two largest sellers: Some Girls (1978), featuring ' Miss You', and Tattoo You (1981), featuring ' Start Me Up'. Taylor was replaced by Ronnie Wood in 1974. (1972), featuring ' Tumbling Dice', and Goats Head Soup (1973), yielding the hit ballad ' Angie', were also best sellers. Sticky Fingers (1971), which yielded ' Brown Sugar' and included the first usage of their tongue and lips logo, was their first of eight consecutive number-one studio albums in the US. That year they were first introduced on stage as ' The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World'. Jones left the band shortly before his death in 1969, having been replaced by guitarist Mick Taylor. Let It Bleed was the first of five consecutive number-one albums in the UK. They returned to their rhythm and blues roots with hit songs such as ' Jumpin' Jack Flash' (1968) and ' Honky Tonk Women' (1969), and albums such as Beggars Banquet (1968), featuring ' Sympathy for the Devil', and Let It Bleed (1969), featuring ' You Can't Always Get What You Want' and ' Gimme Shelter'. In 1967, they had the double-sided hit ' Ruby Tuesday'/' Let's Spend the Night Together' and experimented with psychedelic rock on Their Satanic Majesties Request. Aftermath (1966) – their first entirely original album – is often considered to be the most important of their formative records. They then found greater success with their own material, as ' (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' (1965), ' Get Off of My Cloud' (1965), and ' Paint It Black' (1966) became international number-one hits. Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the Rolling Stones started out playing covers and were at the forefront of the British Invasion in 1964, becoming identified with the youthful and rebellious counterculture of the 1960s. Jagger and Richards became the primary creative force behind the band, alienating Jones, who had developed a drug addiction that interfered with his ability to contribute meaningfully. After Andrew Loog Oldham became the group's manager in 1963, he encouraged them to write their own songs. During their formative years, Jones was the primary leader: he assembled the band, named it, and drove their sound and image.

Their first stable line-up consisted of vocalist Mick Jagger, multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones, guitarist Keith Richards, bassist Bill Wyman, and drummer Charlie Watts. In the early 1960s, the Rolling Stones pioneered the gritty, rhythmically driven sound that came to define hard rock. Active for over six decades, they are one of the most popular and enduring bands of the rock era. The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.

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