The Rolling Stones

Overview: The British are

Coming

• Many British rock stars attained popularity in their own country

• Unable to export their success back to the United States

• From 1964 on several important trends were initiated or co-founded by British rock artists

Overview: The British are

Coming• Did the British dominate

the charts?

• With the British invasion came a split in rock's mainstream

• The dichotomy within the Beatles themselves is the prototype for an even larger division within the British invasion as a whole

The Rolling Stones:The Years Before

Satisfaction

• Early years• Alexis Korner• The Blue Boys • Brian Jones • Bill Wyman and

Charlie Watts

• NEMS• May 1963• Counter-image to

the Beatles• Stones join the

British invasion of America

• James Brown

The Rolling Stones:The Years Before

Satisfaction

Satisfaction

• Ed Sullivan Show

• 16 bar chorus • I bVII I bVII • Phrase 4 guitar

riff

Satisfaction

• Alternates chorus with verses based on this guitar riff

• Intro on riff

Satisfaction• Chorus (AABC) 16

bars• Verse (CCCC) 18

bars (2-bar drum break before 4th C)

• Chorus (AABC) 16 bars

• Verse (CCCC) 18 bars

• Chorus (AABC) 16 bars

• Verse (CCCC) 18 bars

• Riff x 3 (CCC) 12 bars

• Fade-out on riff

• Drugs and alcohol

• A string of hits• Andrew Oldham

formed Immediate Records

• Scandal and increased controversy

• Satanic Majesties Request was a gross disappointment

Satisfaction

Jumpin’ Jack Flash

• less innovative in form

• quintessential rock beat

• chorus is delineated by active harmony

• modal harmony

Jumpin’ Jack Flash

• rock-defining groove

• loose, variable texture

• equality of instruments or at least virtuosity

• Jagger’s singing and Richard’s guitar project insolence

Sympathy for the Devil

• Basic harmonic vocabulary

• Chorus consists six phrases

• Repetitions• Five-bar phrase

Sympathy for the Devil• Intro on drums (add maracas on bar 4) 10 bars

• Lead vocal and full accompaniment enter

• Chorus 1 (aaaa) 17 bars + (bb) 8 bars (fourth statement of a is 5 bars long)

• Chorus 2 (aaaa) 17 bars + (bb) 8 bars

• Chorus 3 (aaaa) 17 bars + (bb) 8 bars (add background vocals)

• Chorus 4 (aaaa) 17 bars + (bb) 8 bars

• (add guitar lead in a-section; lead vocal re-enters in b-section)

• Chorus 5 (aaaa) 17 bars + (bb) 8 bars

Sympathy for the Devil

• Closing Section (aa) 8 bars – Vocal

interjections over guitar lead (with piano)

• Repeat and fade-out

Sympathy for the Devil

Sympathy for the Devil

• Samba beat• Timbral changes• Visceral • Stone’s simplicity

and repetiveness

The Rolling Stones

• Stones rid Brian Jones

• Mick Taylor• The Hyde Park

concert

Altamont

• The American Tour

• The Hells Angels• Sympathy for the

Devil

After Altamont

• Altamont created considerable resentment toward the group

• Tax trouble• Brown Sugar• America tour

1972• 1974-1976• Keith vs. Mick

The Bad Boys of Rock

• The first significant rock group to foster an overtly negative image

• Brian Jones • Keith Richard • Mick Jagger • Concert behaviour • Anti-social violence

Summary1. Since the end of the

1950s, rock had gradually moved away from its R & B roots.

2. This fundamental split within the ranks of the British invasion, the fork in the road created by the Beatles and the Stones, is central to the history of rock since the mid-1960s.

3. Since its beginnings, rock had always had a seamier underside.

4. Finally the Stones deserve an important place in rock history simply because of their longevity.

Summary

The Rolling Stones