These gorgeous box set bundles on the first 18 singles and EPs are reminiscent of the debt the Stones owed to their black musical heroes. Lots of covers. Their first single, Chuck Berry’s Come On, reached number 21 on the charts. The B side was blues legend Willie Dixon I Want To Be Liked.
Their version of Lennon and McCartney’s I Wanna Be Your Man has been pulled in the US due to the effects of drug abuse by B-Side Stoned – the first of many controversies.
The Stones’ first EP on the cover of You Better Move On was dedicated to country singer Arthur Alexander who showcased the band’s softer side in contrast to the earlier hard blues and R&B versions.
Other tracks included Chuck Berry’s Bye Bye Johnny and Leiber & Stoller’s Poison Ivy.
They chased that ace with Buddy Holly’s Not Fade Away which ranked 3 in 1964 and was the first American minor hit.
Tell Me, their first self-drafted single, released in June 1964, at age 48. It took their version of Bobby Womack’s It’s All Over Now to take them to number one. Willie Dixon followed the little red cock.
Mick Jagger, who learned to dance like James Brown, always professed their religion to black America, but it wasn’t a one-way street.
As Muddy Waters once said, “They stole my music, but they gave me my name.”
In 1965 Jagger and Richards found their feet with powerful originals including Satisfaction and Get Off Of My Cloud.
The rest is hysteria.
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