On this day in 1962, friends and former classmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards went to Ealing Jazz Club in Ealing, West London, to see a guitarist calling himself Elmo Lewis and a drummer named Charlie Watts playing with a band called Blues Incorporated. "Elmo Lewis" turned out to be Brian Jones, and by July 1962, Jones was playing with the first lineup of The Rolling Stones (Charlie Watts would become the permanent drummer in February 1963). And the rest, as they say, is history.
The band's first single was a Chuck Berry song, "Come On," which they released in June 1963, but only in the UK. It reached #21 on UK charts. Their first hit in the US was "Tell Me," released in April 1964; it also happened to be the first Jagger/Richards composition to make the top 40 (#24) in the US. So, here's some early early Stones, thanks to a fateful April 7 meeting 61 years ago.
