The Rolling Stones, the biggest rock 'n roll band, had their begins in the mid 60's. In the sixties and seventies the Stones were considered the wild men of rock. Brain Jones, the founder of the Stones, lived fast and died young. Brain was the inventor and the inspiration of the Rolling Stones. The band would not existed without him. He never received that proper credit during his life time. Most of the sound of the sixties were developed from Brain's style and determination, traceable to his own roots and frustrations.Women and music was Brain 's chief loves in his formative years. Drugs and drink came much later. There was a rumour that Brain was gay but he was a sexual athlete and one of the most prodigious women-chasers.

Lewis Brain Hopkin-Jones was born on 28 Febraury 1942 at the Park Nursing Home, Cheltenham. Brain was born into a comfortable family life at 'Rosemead', Eldorado Road in Cheltenham. Lewis Blount Jones, Brian's father,was an aeronautical engineer. His father play the piano and was the organist and the secretary of the choral society at the local church. Louisa Beatrice, Brain's mother, was a piano teacher. Barbara, Brain's sister, was born the same year that Brain. She became a skilful pianist and violinst. Brain's home life was stable and unaffected by wartime Britain.

The main event in Brain's chilhood was the coup he had when he was four, which left him with a terrible asthma attacks; this would affect him for the rest of his life.

His intrest in music came at the age of seven when his parent's move him to the fee-paying Dean Close Junior Public School, he began piano lessons, augmenting his regular studies with piano theory and sight-reading, taught by his mother. He studied piano until he was fourteen. At the age of twelve he began clarinet lessons, joining the school orchestra.

Brian was a still natural rebel. Valarie, a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl became pregnant by Brain. She refused his request to have an abortion and a baby boy was adopted at birth. The girl refused to have anything further to do with him.

Brian Jones left school at the age of eighteen, Brain showed a passing interest in studying to be a dentist, but he quickly disappointed his father by refusing to go to university. He said that he could not face even more years of study before becaming self-supporting in a job. He decision was particularly distressing to his parents, who knew he had an IQ of 135.

There were at least two sides to Brain's personality. One Brain was introverted, shy,sensitive,deep-thinking. The other was a preening peacock,gregarious,artistic,desperately needing assurance from his peers.

Pat Andrews, a sixteen-year-old trainee beautician in a local chemist's shop, was particularly drawn to him. She later became pregnant by Brain. The new born baby boy was named Julian Mark.

He loved experimental,raw and genuine sounds,and the music struck a chord deep inside his soul.From that moment he investigated blues music played by American artist like Jimmy Reed, Howlin' Wolf and Robert Johnson, and they became his obsession. The future sound of The Rolling Stones was born inside Brain Jones's head

Michael Philip Jagger, Rolling Stones lead singer, was born on 26 July 1943, at Livingstone Hospital, East Hill, Dartford, Kent. His father, Basil Fanshawe ('Joe') Jagger marries Eva Mary Scotts on 7 December 1940, at Holy Trinity Church, Dartford, Kent. After war Joe became a physical edcation teacher at a local secondary school. His brother, Christopher Edward was born in Dartford on 19 December 1947.

Mick, aged seven in September 1950, started at Wentworth Junior County Primary School and in Febraury 1951 Mick met Keith Richards for the first time at that school.

In July 1960, Mick was earning money selling ice creams outside Dartford Public Library. Keith Richards bought one and the talked briefly, after a five-year gap

On 26 July Mick celebrated his eighteenth birthday and he got three A-level passes and won a scholarship to the LSE.- London School of Ecnomics. He began studying economics and political science.

One morning in late October, on his way to the LSE, he met Keith, who was on his way to Sidcup Art College, at Dartford Station.

Keith Richards, Stones guitarist, was born on 18 December 1943 in Livingstone Hospital, East Hill, Dartford, where Mick Jagger had been born five months earlier. His father, Herbert William Richards, had come from a large working-class family in Walthamstow, north-east London. His mother, Doris Maud Lydia Dupree, met Bert at 1933. Bert and Doris were married in London in 1936. The Richards family moved from Morland Avenue to the Temple Hill Estate on the other side of Dartford in 1955

When Mick and Keith met at the Dartford station,under Mick's arm was a collection of imported R&B records he had received by mail from Chicago and New York. Keith noticed the records,which Mick had under his arm. Mick had a particular Chuck Berry record that he'd never seen before so they began talking about Chuck Berry and other American singers. Before Keith got off the train they had arranged to meet and listen to Mick's discs.

Richards and Jagger got together and started to play with a guitarist Dick Taylor.