The Rolling Stones:
Maybe They Weren't a Rock and Roll Outfit After All
1965 []
15 January. The Rolling Stones No. 2 [LP UK #1]
18 January. Stop in Los Angeles to record ("Last Time") on way to a tour of Australia and New Zealand.
26 February. "Last Time" / "Play with Fire" released [UK #1]
March. Tour of Britain and Northern Europe.
April-May. Continue tour of Europe. Begin tour of Canada and US. [Albany Palace Theater, 29 April]
2 May. A taped performance by the Stones appears on The Ed Sullivan Show.
10-13 May. Stones record in Chicago and Los Angeles (including "Satisfaction")
27 May. US release "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" / "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" [US #1]
11 June. Got Live If You Want It [UK release; March dates in Britain. US release of the same name contains different recordings.]
July. Out of Our Heads released in US.
22 July. Jagger, Jones, and Wyman fined for urinating against the wall of a service station after a mechanic denied them access to the washroom.
11 August. Andrew Loog Oldham launches Immediate Records.
20 August. UK release "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" / "The Spider and the Fly" [UK #1]
24 August. Stones have initial meeting with American, Allen Klein. Klein brings band into meeting with Sir Edward Lewis to begin renegotiating their recording contract. He substantially increases their income.
28 August. Stones announce that Tito Burns is the British Agent and that Allen Klein and Andrew Loog Oldham are their co-managers. They also announce that they have signed with Decca (UK) and London (US).
24 September. Out of Our Heads [LP UK release, reaches UK #2]
September. "Get Off of My Cloud" / "I'm Free" [US release, reaches US #1]
22 October. "Get Off of My Cloud" / "The Singer Not the Song" [UK release, reaches UK #1]
28 October. Begin US-Canada tour
November. December's Children (and Everybody's) [US #4]
December. "As Tears Go By" / "Gotta Get Away" [US #6]
1966 []
4 February. "19th Nervous Breakdown" / "As Tears Go By" [in some markets / "Sad Day"]
February-March. Australia-New Zealand tour.
March. Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) UK LP release.
March-April. European tour
15 April: Aftermath [UK release, UK #1]
13 April: "Paint It, Black" / "Long Long While" [UK release, UK #1]
May-June-July. US-Canada tour
June. Aftermath [US release]
June: "Mother's Little Helper" / "Lady Jane" ["double A" US release, US #8]
23 September: "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing in the Shadow" / "Who's Driving Your Plane"
November: Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) [UK release]
December: Got Live If You Want It (Live, Royal Albert Hall) [US release]
1967 []
13 January: "Let's Spend the Night Together" / "Ruby Tuesday"
January: Between the Buttons [UK release, UK #3]
5 February. News of the World reports that Mick Jagger has tried LSD and has encouraged others to try hashish. The actual source is Brian Jones. Jagger announces he will be suing News of the World.
12 February. Police led by Sgt Pilcher raid Keith Richards' home "Redlands" in West Sussex and seize drugs.The News of the World reports that the singer Marianne Faithful wore only a blanket when police entered the house.
March. Richards, Jagger, and Jones leave on a trip to North Africa with Faithful and Jones' girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg.
16 March. Jagger, Faithful, Richards, and Pallenberg suddenly leave Tangier for London without telling Jones.
March-April. European tour.
10 May. Jagger and Richards are arraigned in court. The same day, Jones is arrested for possession of drugs.
June. Flowers [US LP release]
27 June. Jagger found guilty of drug possession and jailed.
28 June. Richards is similarly found guilty.
29 June. Judge Block sentences Jagger to three months and fines him £500. Richards is sentenced to 1 year and a fine of £100. Jagger goes to Brixton jail, Richards to Wormwood Scrubs.
1 July. Times Editor, William Rees-Mogg prints his "Who Breaks a Butterfly on a Wheel?" in support of Jagger and Richards. Other papers soon follow suit.
31 July. The Appeals Court lifts the sentences against Jagger and Richards.
1 August. The Times reports that the Court has overturned the Richards conviction due to improper procedures in the original trial.
18 August: "We Love You" / "Dandelion"
29 September. The Stones announce that Andrew Loog Oldham will no longer produce their albums and that Allen Klein will be their new manager.
30 October. Jones is convicted of drug possession and sentenced to 9 months in Wormwood Scrubs. (He is released on bail the next day.)
19 November. Bill Wyman releases "In Another Land" / "The Lantern" [US], recorded 13 July 1967 in Olympic Studios, London. [Alternative release information: 2 December.]
27 November. "She's a Rainbow" / "2,000 Light Years from Home" [US release to correspond with the American release of Their Satanic Majesties Request. Alternative release date, 23 December.]
12 December. The Court of Appeals gives Jones 3 years probation and fines him £1000 after psychiatrists describe him as "extremely frightened" and "suicidal."
15 December. Jones collapses and is rushed to a hospital.
18 December: Their Satanic Majesties Request [UK release, UK #3]
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