The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones may have demonstrated a certain lack of modesty when
they anointed themselves the World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the late
1960s. But the title was no idle boast. In their early days as the British Invasion’s
foremost exponents of bad attitude, the scruffy quintet embodied all
that was dangerous and transgressive about rock and roll. In the decades that followed, they managed to maintain their defi ant aura, even after they became
a stadium-fi lling, profi t-spinning institution.
