Amazing Facts

1. The Rolling Stones have sold over 200 million records world-wide
2. Delia Smith baked the cake featured on the front cover of the Let it Bleed album.
3. The band have only had one album that hasn’t reached the top five in the UK
4. Long hair was considered an outrage in 1963 - and one Christmas the band placed an ad in a newspaper reading ‘Best wishes to all the starving hairdressers and their families’.
5. In 1983 Mick Jagger was commissioned to write an autobiography. After the first manuscript he quit and gave back the advance.
6. It has been reported that the band do not go on tour without their snooker table!
7. Martin Scorsese has used the song Gimme Shelter in four of his films.
8. A woman was stabbed and killed at a Rolling Stones concert in 1969.
9. The Band is named as a tribute to the Muddy Waters song Rollin’ Stone.
10. The song I Wanna Be Your Man was actually written for the Stones by Lennon and McCartney.