minds of music fans.       Start The m Up   Music history took an interesting turn one fateful day in 1960 when two teenagers met by chance in a railway station in Dartford, En- gland. Mick Jagger was carrying a few old blues albums under his arm, which may well have sparked recognition in Keith Richards that they had known each other in childhood and shared a mutual love of American blues music. It wasnt long before they were playing in a band called Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys. Jagger went off to the London School of Economics and Richards to Sidcup Art College. Blues guitarist Brian Jones joined the band, and the trio moved into     a dilapidated apartment in Chelsea, playing whatever gigs they could get around London, performing covers of their heroes-blues greats Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf. It was Jones who suggested they call themselves the Rolling Stones, after the Muddy Waters tune, "Rollin Stone Blues," starting what was to become the worlds most successful rock-and-roll corporation. On January 14, 1963, the Rolling Stones (with the addition of Ian Stewart, Bill Wyman, and drummer Charlie Watts) first played to- gether as a group at the Flamingo Club in Soho. With the help of a 19-year-old aspiring business manager named Andrew Oldham, the group signed a contract that June with Decca Records and released its first single, a cover of Chuck Berrys "Come On." It was a hit on British radio stations, as were their next two singles, covers of the Beatles "I Want to Be Your Man" and Buddy Hollys "Not Fade Away." After "test marketing" their music, the Stones began an aggressive product rollout, expanding from a limited sales area to wider geo- graphic areas. The band quickly merged its successful singles into an LP-The Rolling Stones-released in the United Kingdom on April 16, 1964. It included blues-oriented versions of songs people already knew, such as Bobby Troops "I Get My Kicks on Route 66" and Sam Cookes "Honest I Do." That year marked many milestones for the Stones. They recorded a second album, 12 ´ 5, and began their first U.S. tour, allowing them to tap the largest market in the world (much the same way as successful European and Japanese firms do). Ed Sul- livan debuted the Stones on his show on October 25, 1964, experi- encing some of the same audience reaction as when he debuted Elvis and the Beatles. On a roll, the Stones hit it hard in 1965 and released four albums, Rolling Stones No. 2, The Rolling Stones Now, Out of Our Heads, and December Children.