How was the band The Rolling Stones formed?

Answer 1

Brian Jones (guitar) placed an add to start a band in 1962. Ian Stewart (piano) answered.

Mick Jagger (vocal), Keith Richards (guitar), and Dick Taylor (bass) were already playing on their own together in amateur band but joined up with them instead. The resulting group called themselves The Rolling Stones.

After Dick Taylor left, they played with a couple different bassists and drummers before completing the line-up with Bill Wyman (bass) and Charlie Watt (drums) in early 1963. In mid-June 1963, Ian Stewart was demoted from band member to road manager. He still played with the band (for another 20 years) but not as an official member.

Answer 2

Keith Richards and Mick Jagger knew each other because they went to school as kids at Dartford. They ran into each other on a train to London many years later and started talking about music. In London, they realized there were auditions for a rock n' roll band hosted by Brian Jones. Brian Jones accepted them into the band and then got Bill Wyman, a bass player to join. So it was, Brian Jones on rhythm guitar, Keith Richards on lead guitar, Mick Jagger on vocals, Bill Wyman on bass, Ian Stewart on piano, and Tony Chapman on drums. A year later in 1963, Tony Chapman was out of the band because Brian Jones asked drummer Charlie Watts twice to join the band and Watts finally joined. Their manager Andrew Loog Oldham decided Ian Stewart shouldn't be in the lineup of the band but he still played on records. So it was Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, and Charlie Watts. Ian Stewart was referred to as "The Sixth Stone"

Answer 3

They started their band when they started thinking about it in high school and decided that's what they wanted to do for their living.