Rock star dreams, accolades and secret weddings: For the 60th anniversary of the Rolling Stones, the star 60 exciting and curious facts about the world’s longest-serving rock band.
1. Keith Richards only plays his guitar with five strings. He does without the low E string
2. The Rolling Stones now have 19 children, 17 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren
3. Both Angela Merkel and Donald Trump used Stones songs for their election campaigns. With varying degrees of success: Merkel became chancellor in 2005 with “Angie”, and Trump appropriately lost his re-election in 2020 with “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”.
4.Mick Jagger keeps young with ballet dancing, among other things. His American girlfriend Melanie Hamrick is a trained ballet dancer
5. They were young and needed the money: In 1964, the Stones recorded a song promoting breakfast cereal