Music Giants VI The Rolling Stones

Music Giants VI: The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are revered as one of the greatest live acts of all time. In 2005 they were awarded by World Music
Awards the accolade of greatest touring band of all time. They have sold an estimated 250m records and in the UK have eight no.1 singles and twelve no.1 albums.
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the band, Royal Mail is issuing a new set of eight Special Stamps capturing
moments from some of their legendary performances over the years.
An extensive range of officially licensed Rolling Stones collectibles will also be released with the stamps, including a gold stamp set, silver stamp ingots and limited edition frames.
Since the late 1960s, people have called The Rolling Stones “The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World”. It was a
phrase that began as a hyped-up onstage introduction but stuck, despite the Stones’ occasional protestations to the
contrary. It is not hard to see why. Over the course of the past 60 years, their singles and albums have produced a string of evergreen rock classics, powered by some of the greatest guitar riffs ever written.
With Ronnie Wood on guitar and, until his death in August 2021, Charlie Watts on drums, the Stones’ music helped
define not just one era but several, and they remain a dependably record-breaking live draw, capable of filling the
biggest venues in the world. The gradual shift from young upstarts to elder statesmen has done nothing to dent The
Rolling Stones’ image as the definition of a certain kind of cool – and of rock and roll itself.