The Rolling Stones: Influences

The Rolling Stones: Influences

Before becoming rock's most enduring outlaws, The Rolling Stones were British teens with an abiding passion for American music. The grit and swing of their signature sound came from a fusion of raw bluesmen like Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters with house-party shouters like Rufus Thomas, to which they added sex and volume. Here's where The Stones got their swagger.

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