The Rolling Stones est un groupe musical rock britannique originaire de Londres, en Angleterre.Il est formé en 1962 par le guitariste et leader originel Brian Jones (musicien)|Brian Jones, le pianiste Ian Stewart (musicien)|Ian Stewart, le chanteur Mick Jagger, le guitariste Keith Richards, le bassiste Dick Taylor et le batteur Mick Avory. Le bassiste Bill Wyman et le batteur Charlie Watts les rejoignent ensuite après les départs de Dick Taylor et Mick Avory. Ian Stewart est écarté de la formation officielle par le manager du groupe Andrew Loog Oldham dès mai 1963, mais continue à travailler (comme road manager et comme pianiste) avec le groupe jusqu'à sa mort en 1985. Jagger et Richards constituent rapidement un duo d'Auteur-compositeur|auteurs-compositeurs et prennent peu à peu la direction du groupe, écartant progressivement un Brian Jones de plus en plus erratique.Le nom du groupe vient d'une chanson de Muddy Waters, ''Rollin' Stone'', choisie par Brian Jones (musicien)|Brian Jones. Le blues a toujours été la source d'inspiration principale des Stones, qui sont l'un des principaux acteurs du retour de cette musique sur le devant de la scène, à travers le « British blues boom ». Les premiers enregistrements des Rolling Stones sont des reprises de blues et de rhythm and blues américains. Après avoir rencontré le succès au Royaume-Uni, ils deviennent populaires aux États-Unis, durant la « British Invasion » (initiée par les The Beatles|Beatles) du milieu des années 1960. Leur single single de 1965 ''(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction'' les fait connaître dans le monde entier.À partir de 1966 et de l'album album ''Aftermath (album des Rolling Stones)|Aftermath'', les chansons de Jagger et Richards, embellies par les expérimentations instrumentales de Brian Jones, développent une diversité stylistique qui reste présente jusqu'à nos jours.Brian Jones meurt noyé dans sa piscine en juillet 1969, peu de temps après sa mise à pied du groupe. Il est remplacé par Mick Taylor qui participe aux tournées et à l'enregistrement de cinq albums studio avant de quitter les Stones en 1974. L'ancien guitariste des Faces (groupe)|Faces, Ronnie Wood, prend alors sa place, qu'il conserve depuis lors. Bill Wyman quitte à son tour le groupe en 1993. Le bassiste Darryl Jones le remplace, sans en devenir un membre officiel.Les Rolling Stones ont publié vingt-trois albums studio au Royaume-Uni (vingt-cinq aux États-Unis), tous classés dans le top dix britannique, trente-deux compilations et huit albums en concert (neuf aux États-Unis). En 1971, ''Sticky Fingers'' inaugure une série de huit albums studio qui atteignent la première place des hit-parades, des deux côtés de l'Atlantique. En 2016 est sorti le 23e|album studio du groupe, ''Blue and Lonesome'', qui reprend des standards du blues. Leur dernier disque original, Hackney Diamonds, est sorti en 2023, 18 ans après ''A Bigger Bang''. En 2019, le groupe a vendu plus de 240 millions d'albums dans le monde (dont près de 100 millions de ventes certifiés). Le groupe est le deuxième à avoir eu le plus de succès dans le Billboard Hot 100, la référence des ventes de singles aux États-Unis. Les Stones ont été classés numéro|4 dans la liste des cent plus grands artistes de tous les temps du magazine ''Rolling Stone''.Les Rolling Stones sont entrés au Rock and Roll Hall of Fame en 1989, et Mick Jagger a été anobli par la Monarchie britannique|reine du Royaume-Uni en 2002. Leur image de mauvais garçons rebelles, véhiculée dans les années 1960, est une référence majeure pour les générations de musiciens rock qui les ont suivis. Après soixante années de carrière, les Stones, tous bientôt octogénaires, continuent à se produire sur scène et avec succès dans le monde entier, et ne manifestent aucune intention de mettre un terme à l'existence du groupe.Charlie Watts, batteur des Stones depuis 1963, meurt le 24 août 2021 à l'âge de Nobr|80 ans. Il est remplacé par Steve Jordan qui rejoint le groupe sans pour autant en devenir un membre officiel. Historiquement d'un quintette, le groupe passe à un quatuor après le départ de Bill Wyman en 1993, il forme désormais un trio composé de Mick Jagger, Keith Richards et Ronnie Wood, accompagnés sur scène de musiciens additionnels.English rock band about|the band|the magazine|Rolling Stone!''Rolling Stone''|other uses|Rolling Stone (disambiguation) good article pp-move pp-pc|small=yes Use British English August 2017 December 2021 Infobox musical artist | image = The Rolling Stones Summerfest in Milwaukee - 2015.jpg | alt = Rolling Stones performing on stage in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From left: Charlie Watts on brown drum set, Ronnie Wood wearing a purple jacket with black jeans playing a silver coloured guitar, Mick Jagger wearing black shirt and pants playing an orange/yellow guitar, Keith Richards with a green vest and black clothing playing an orange/yellow guitar (similar to Jagger's) | landscape = yes | caption = The Rolling Stones performing at Summerfest in Milwaukee in June 2015. Left to right: Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger, and Keith Richards. | background = group_or_band | origin = London, England | genre = flatlist| * Rock music|Rock * Pop music|pop * blues | years_active = 1962–present | discography = flatlist| * The Rolling Stones discography Albums and singles * List of songs recorded by the Rolling Stones|songs | label = flatlist| * Decca Records|Decca * London Recordings|London * Rolling Stones Records|Rolling Stones * Virgin Records * ABKCO * Interscope * Polydor * Columbia Records|Columbia * Atlantic Records|Atlantic * A&M Records|A&M * Geffen Records|Geffen | spinoffs = flatlist| * Rocket 88 (band)|Rocket 88 * The New Barbarians (band)|The New Barbarians | website = URL|rollingstones.com | current_members = plainlist| * Mick Jagger * Keith Richards * Ronnie Wood | past_members = plainlist| * Brian Jones * Ian Stewart (musician)|Ian Stewart * Bill Wyman * Charlie Watts * Mick Taylor ''The Rolling Stones'' are an English Rock music|rock band formed in London in 1962. Active for over six decades, they are one of the most popular and enduring bands of the Album era|rock era. In the early 1960s, the band pioneered the gritty, rhythmically driven sound that came to define hard rock. Their first stable line-up consisted of vocalist Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards, multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones, bassist Bill Wyman, and drummer Charlie Watts. During their early years, Jones was the primary leader. Andrew Loog Oldham became their manager in 1963 and encouraged them to write their own songs. The Jagger–Richards|Jagger–Richards partnership soon became the band's primary songwriting and creative force. Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the Rolling Stones started out playing Cover version|covers and were at the forefront of the British Invasion in 1964, becoming identified with the youthful counterculture of the 1960s. They then found greater success with their own material, as "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", "Get Off of My Cloud" (both 1965, and "Paint It Black" (1966) became international number-one Hit song|hits. ''Aftermath (Rolling Stones album)|Aftermath'' (1966, their first entirely original album, is often considered to be the most important of their early albums. In 1967, they had the A-side and B-side|double-sided hit "Ruby Tuesday (song)|Ruby Tuesday"/"Let's Spend the Night Together" and experimented with psychedelic rock on ''Their Satanic Majesties Request''. By the end of the 1960s, they had returned to their rhythm and blues-based rock sound, with hit singles "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (1968) and "Honky Tonk Women" (1969, and albums ''Beggars Banquet'' (1968, featuring "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Street Fighting Man", and ''Let It Bleed'' (1969, featuring "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and "Gimme Shelter". Jones left the band shortly before his death in 1969, having been replaced by Mick Taylor. That year they were first introduced on stage as "Honorific nicknames in popular music|the greatest rock and roll band in the world". ''Sticky Fingers'' (1971, which yielded "Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones song)|Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses (Rolling Stones song)|Wild Horses" and included the first usage of their tongue and lips logo, was their first of eight consecutive number-one studio albums in the US. It was followed by ''Exile on Main St.'' (1972, featuring "Tumbling Dice" and "Happy (Rolling Stones song)|Happy", and ''Goats Head Soup'' (1973, featuring "Angie (song)|Angie". Taylor left the band at the end of 1974 and was replaced by Ronnie Wood. The band released ''Some Girls'' in 1978, featuring "Miss You (Rolling Stones song)|Miss You" and "Beast of Burden (song)|Beast of Burden", and ''Tattoo You'' in 1981, featuring "Start Me Up". ''Steel Wheels'' (1989) was widely considered a Comeback (publicity)|comeback album and was followed by ''Voodoo Lounge'' (1994). Both releases were promoted by large stadium and arena tours, as the Stones continued to be a huge concert attraction; by 2007, they had broken the record for the all-time List of highest-grossing concert tours|highest-grossing concert tour three times, and they were the highest-earning live act of 2021. Following Wyman's departure in 1993, the band continued as a four-piece core, with Darryl Jones becoming their regular bassist, and then as a three-piece core following Watts' death in 2021, with Steve Jordan (drummer)|Steve Jordan becoming their regular drummer. ''Hackney Diamonds'', the band's first new album of original material in 18 years, was released in October 2023, becoming their List of artists by number of UK Albums Chart number ones|fourteenth UK number-one album. The Rolling Stones' estimated record sales of more than 250 million make them one of the List of best-selling music artists|best-selling music artists of all time. They have won three Grammy Awards and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004. Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'' and ''Rolling Stone'' have ranked them as one of the greatest artists of all time.