Narrator / Host (mostly Dominic Sandbrook)

They've had six British number ones, four American number ones, very famous songs, Satisfaction, Get Off My Cloud, Paint It Black, and Ruby Tuesday. They've been to the United States three times, triumphant tours. They've been twice to Australia and New Zealand. They've been often to Europe.

There is a slight sense, I think, by 1967, I think you're dead right, that they are out of time, that their music has, you know, the sort of the blues-edged music with which they came to prominence in 1964. It's no longer what people want in 1967. Yeah, what the kids are grieving are sitars. They want sitars. They want people laughing uncontrollably for no reason at the end of a track.

There is a slight sense, I think, by 1967, I think you're dead right, that they are out of time, that their music has, you know, the sort of the blues-edged music with which they came to prominence in 1964. It's no longer what people want in 1967. Yeah, what the kids are grieving are sitars. They want sitars. They want people laughing uncontrollably for no reason at the end of a track.

There is a slight sense, I think, by 1967, I think you're dead right, that they are out of time, that their music has, you know, the sort of the blues-edged music with which they came to prominence in 1964. It's no longer what people want in 1967. Yeah, what the kids are grieving are sitars. They want sitars. They want people laughing uncontrollably for no reason at the end of a track.

They want bits played backwards. Exactly. So there's a slight sense that the Stones are beginning to copy the... I mean, they've always been in the shadow of the Beatles, as we established last time, that they are becoming a little bit slavish to the Beatles. Their most recent album was Between the Buttons, which was released in January 1967.

They want bits played backwards. Exactly. So there's a slight sense that the Stones are beginning to copy the... I mean, they've always been in the shadow of the Beatles, as we established last time, that they are becoming a little bit slavish to the Beatles. Their most recent album was Between the Buttons, which was released in January 1967.

They want bits played backwards. Exactly. So there's a slight sense that the Stones are beginning to copy the... I mean, they've always been in the shadow of the Beatles, as we established last time, that they are becoming a little bit slavish to the Beatles. Their most recent album was Between the Buttons, which was released in January 1967.

It's a little bit more sort of folky and a bit more psychedelic than their previous records. They are, Tom, like so many blues musicians before them, they're at a crossroads. Now, they're also, of course, by this point, national celebrities and international celebrities. So in the last episode, we heard how they turned into kind of folk devils.

It's a little bit more sort of folky and a bit more psychedelic than their previous records. They are, Tom, like so many blues musicians before them, they're at a crossroads. Now, they're also, of course, by this point, national celebrities and international celebrities. So in the last episode, we heard how they turned into kind of folk devils.

It's a little bit more sort of folky and a bit more psychedelic than their previous records. They are, Tom, like so many blues musicians before them, they're at a crossroads. Now, they're also, of course, by this point, national celebrities and international celebrities. So in the last episode, we heard how they turned into kind of folk devils.

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Yeah, exactly. Exactly. They're like war films. They're like 1950s war films and things like that. So particularly Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian Jones have become names. They've made that sort of transition to becoming names that people who are not really interested in their music will automatically recognise. They'll be in the gossip columns.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. They're like war films. They're like 1950s war films and things like that. So particularly Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian Jones have become names. They've made that sort of transition to becoming names that people who are not really interested in their music will automatically recognise. They'll be in the gossip columns.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. They're like war films. They're like 1950s war films and things like that. So particularly Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian Jones have become names. They've made that sort of transition to becoming names that people who are not really interested in their music will automatically recognise. They'll be in the gossip columns.

They will be mentioned as sort of shorthand for youth. And in a way that perhaps is no longer the case, would you say? Yeah, because there is a genuinely homogenous culture, national culture. And to some extent, I suppose, a Western international culture has emerged really.

They will be mentioned as sort of shorthand for youth. And in a way that perhaps is no longer the case, would you say? Yeah, because there is a genuinely homogenous culture, national culture. And to some extent, I suppose, a Western international culture has emerged really.

They will be mentioned as sort of shorthand for youth. And in a way that perhaps is no longer the case, would you say? Yeah, because there is a genuinely homogenous culture, national culture. And to some extent, I suppose, a Western international culture has emerged really.

I mean, I guess it existed in the form of Hollywood, but, you know, they could walk down the street in Chicago and they would be immediately recognised. in a way that would not have been possible for a music hall singer in the 1890s or something. So they're always being mentioned, those three in particular, and media accounts are swinging London, 1965, 1966.