What are your dozen favourite tracks by the Rolling Stones?

[Hepcat]

The Rolling Stones' first concert tour of the United States took place from 5 June 1964 to 20 June 1964. The Stones are currently touring North America again over sixty years later! They'll be playing in Chicago's Soldier Field tomorrow evening.

It was also just over sixty years ago that they recorded It's All Over Now at Chess Studios in Chicago on June 10th. It was released on June 26th. Though it peaked at only #26 in the States, it became their first #1 hit in the United Kingdom.

Sixty years is a long time for a band to keep rocking!

 

[Hepcat]

It was just over sixty years ago on 25 September 1964 that the Rolling Stones' first rendition of Time Is on My Side was released in the United States:

It became their first Top Ten hit in the States as it got to #6 on the Billboard chart. Undeterred by their chart success, the Rolling Stones re-recorded the track on 8 November 1964 at Chess Studios in Chicago:

This second "tighter" version was included on their second U.K. LP The Rolling Stones No. 2 which was released 15 January 1965.

 

[Hepcat]

If I had to pick a single date when the Rolling Stones exploded in popularity in the United States, it would have been just over sixty years ago on 25 October 1964 when the Stones made their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show:

Old Ed was appalled, but record buying teens from one end of the country to the other were enthralled.