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White Americans used lynching to terrorize and control Black people in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Learn more about the history of this barbaric practice and how NAACP worked to end lynching.

What are lynchings?

A lynching is the public killing of an individual who has not received any due process. These executions were often carried out by lawless mobs, though police officers did participate, under the pretext of justice.

Lynchings were violent public acts that white people used to terrorize and control Black people in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly in the South. Lynchings typically evoke images of Black men and women hanging from trees, but they involved other extreme brutality, such as torture, mutilation, decapitation, and desecration. Some victims were burned alive.

A typical lynching involved a criminal accusation, an arrest, and the assembly of a mob, followed by seizure, physical torment, and murder of the victim. Lynchings were often public spectacles attended by the white community in celebration of white supremacy. Photos of lynchings were often sold as souvenir postcards.

"Southern trees bear a strange fruit, blood on the leaves and blood at the root. Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze, strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees."

- "Strange Fruit," written by Abel Meeropol and recorded in 1939 by Billie Holiday

How Many People were lynched?

From 1882 to 1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the U.S., according to records maintained by NAACP. Other accounts, including the Equal Justice Initiative's extensive report on lynching, count slightly different numbers, but it's impossible to know for certain how many lynchings occurred because there was no formal tracking. Many historians believe the true number is underreported.

The highest number of lynchings during that time period occurred in Mississippi, with 581 recorded. Georgia was second with 531, and Texas was third with 493. Lynchings did not occur in every state. There are no recorded lynchings in Arizona, Idaho, Maine, Nevada, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wisconsin.

Black people were the primary victims of lynching: 3,446, or about 72 percent of the people lynched, were Black. But they weren't the only victims of lynching. Some white people were lynched for helping Black people or for being anti-lynching. Immigrants from Mexico, China, Australia, and other countries were also lynched.

Allegations behind lynchings

White mobs often used dubious criminal accusations to justify lynchings. A common claim used to lynch Black men was perceived sexual transgressions against white women. Charges of rape were routinely fabricated. These allegations were used to enforce segregation and advance stereotypes of Black men as violent, hypersexual aggressors.

Hundreds of Black people were lynched based on accusations of other crimes, including murder, arson, robbery, and vagrancy.

Many victims of lynchings were murdered without being accused of any crime. They were killed for violating social customs or racial expectations, such as speaking to white people with less respect than what white people believed they were owed.

How NAACP fought lynching

As Black Americans fled the South to escape the terror of lynchings, a historic event known as the Great Migration, people began to oppose lynchings in a number of ways. They conducted grassroots activism, such as boycotting white businesses. Anti-lynching crusaders like Ida B. Wells composed newspaper columns to criticize the atrocities of lynching.

And several important civil rights organizations - including NAACP - emerged during this time to combat racial violence.

NAACP led a courageous battle against lynching. In the July 1916 issue of The Crisis, ﻿editor W.E.B. Du Bois published a photo essay called "The Waco Horror" that featured brutal images of the lynching of Jesse Washington.

Washington was a 17-year-old Black teen lynched in Waco, Texas, by a white mob that accused him of killing Lucy Fryer, a white woman. Du Bois was able to turn postcards of Washington's murder against their creators to energize the anti-lynching movement. The Crisis's circulation grew by 50,000 over the next two years, and we raised $20,000 toward an anti-lynching campaign.

In 1919, NAACP published Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1919, to promote awareness of the scope of lynching. The data in this study offer the gruesome facts by number, year, state, color, sex, and alleged offense.

Among the campaign's other efforts, from 1920 to 1938, we flew a flag from our national headquarters in New York that bore the words "A man was lynched yesterday." The campaign turned the tide of public opinion and even persuaded some southern newspapers to oppose lynching because it was damaging the South's economic prospects.

We also fought hard for anti-lynching legislation. In 1918, Congressman Leonidas Dyer of Missouri first introduced his Anti-Lynching Bill - known as the Dyer Bill - into Congress. NAACP supported passage of the bill from 1919 onward, though it was defeated by a Senate filibuster. NAACP continued to push for federal anti-lynching legislation into the 1930s.

National lynching rates declined in the 1930s, a trend that NAACP Executive Secretary Walter White attributed to anti-lynching activism, shifts in public opinion, and the Great Migration. The first full year without a recorded lynching occurred in 1952.

The lynching of Emmet Till

The tide may have turned against lynching, but white supremacy and violence continued to terrorize Black communities. In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman. Till's murder and subsequent injustice deeply affected the Black community and galvanized a young generation of Black people to join the Civil Rights Movement.

NAACP declared Till's murder a lynching. Southeast Regional Director Ruby Hurley, Mississippi Field Secretary Medgar Evers, and Amzie Moore, president of the Bolivar County branch in Mississippi, initiated the homicide investigation and secured witnesses. An all-white jury acquitted the two men accused, who later bragged about their crimes in a magazine article.

Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley, Emmet Till's mother, decided to hold an open-casket funeral to put her son's brutalized body on display for the world to see. Jet Magazine published photos of his body in the casket, along with the headline "Negro Boy Was Killed for 'Wolf Whistle,'" causing national outrage among Black and white Americans alike, helping to catalyze the Civil Rights Movement.

Modern-day lynchings

You might think of lynchings as a disgraceful and barbaric practice from the past, but they continue to this day. In 1998, James Byrd was chained to a car by three white supremacists and dragged to his death in the streets of Jasper, Texas. In 2020, Ahmaud Arbery was fatally shot while jogging near Brunswick, Georgia. The three white men charged with killing Arbery claimed he was trespassing.

The videotaped death of George Floyd was a modern-day lynching. Floyd was killed in broad daylight by police officer Derek Chauvin, who held Floyd down with a knee on his neck for more than nine minutes.

Lynchings like these should not be part of American society today just as they should not have been 100 years ago. NAACP will continue to fight back against white supremacy and violence, and demand that people responsible, including law enforcement officers, be held accountable.

We can achieve greater in the fight against structural racism and inequality by honoring Black history all year long.

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Walter White, Investigator

In 1918, Walter White, NAACP Assistant Secretary, initially joined NAACP as an investigator. His fair skin and straight hair made him effective in conducting investigations of lynchings and race riots in the South. He could "pass" and talk to whites but identified as Black. Through 1927, White would investigate 41 lynchings.

Walter White lynching investigations featured in The Crisis:
The Lynching of Mary Turner, May 19, 1918 - Georgia
The lynching of Mary Turner in Brooks-Lowndes County, Georgia, was one of the lynching investigations by Walter White on behalf of NAACP. Abusive plantation owner, Hampton Smith, was shot and killed. A week-long manhunt resulted in the killing of Mary Turner's husband, Hayes Turner. Mary denied that her husband had been involved in Smith's killing, publicly opposed her husband's murder, and threatened to have members of the mob arrested.

On May 19, 1918, a mob of several hundred brought her to Folsom Bridge, tied Mary's ankles, hung her upside down from a tree, doused her in gasoline and motor oil and set her on fire. She was still alive when a member of the mob split her abdomen open with a knife. Her unborn child fell to the ground, was stomped and crushed. Mary's body was riddled with hundreds of bullets.

The September 1918 issue of The Crisis carried an account of the lynching.
The Lynching of Jesse McIlherron, February 1918 - Tennessee
The lynching of Jesse McIlherron was another Walter White investigation for NAACP. Jesse was a Black man who resented the slights and insults of white men. He stayed armed and the sheriff feared him. On February 8, 1918, he got into a quarrel with three young white men who insulted him. Threats were made and McIlherron shot and killed two of the men.

McIlherron fled to the home of a Black clergyman who aided him to escape and was later shot and killed by a mob. McIlherron was captured and lynched. McIlherron was chained to a hickory tree, a fire was built, and the torture began. Bars of iron were heated and the mob amused itself by putting them close to McIlherron, at first without touching him. He grasped at a bar and as it was jerked from his grasp, the inside of his hand came with it. Then, the real torturing began, lasting twenty minutes.

During that time, while his flesh was slowly roasting, Jesse never lost nerve. He cursed those who tortured him and almost to the last breath, derided the attempts of the mob to break his spirit.

An account of the lynching of Jesse was carried in the May 1918 issue of The Crisis.

What are lynchings?

A lynching is the public killing of an individual who has not received any due process. These executions were often carried out by lawless mobs, though police officers did participate, under the pretext of justice.

Lynchings were violent public acts that white people used to terrorize and control Black people in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly in the South. Lynchings typically evoke images of Black men and women hanging from trees, but they involved other extreme brutality, such as torture, mutilation, decapitation, and desecration. Some victims were burned alive.

A typical lynching involved a criminal accusation, an arrest, and the assembly of a mob, followed by seizure, physical torment, and murder of the victim. Lynchings were often public spectacles attended by the white community in celebration of white supremacy. Photos of lynchings were often sold as souvenir postcards.

"Southern trees bear a strange fruit, blood on the leaves and blood at the root. Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze, strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees."

- "Strange Fruit," written by Abel Meeropol and recorded in 1939 by Billie Holiday

How Many People were lynched?

From 1882 to 1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the U.S., according to records maintained by NAACP. Other accounts, including the Equal Justice Initiative's extensive report on lynching, count slightly different numbers, but it's impossible to know for certain how many lynchings occurred because there was no formal tracking. Many historians believe the true number is underreported.

The highest number of lynchings during that time period occurred in Mississippi, with 581 recorded. Georgia was second with 531, and Texas was third with 493. Lynchings did not occur in every state. There are no recorded lynchings in Arizona, Idaho, Maine, Nevada, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wisconsin.

Black people were the primary victims of lynching: 3,446, or about 72 percent of the people lynched, were Black. But they weren't the only victims of lynching. Some white people were lynched for helping Black people or for being anti-lynching. Immigrants from Mexico, China, Australia, and other countries were also lynched.

Allegations behind lynchings

White mobs often used dubious criminal accusations to justify lynchings. A common claim used to lynch Black men was perceived sexual transgressions against white women. Charges of rape were routinely fabricated. These allegations were used to enforce segregation and advance stereotypes of Black men as violent, hypersexual aggressors.

Hundreds of Black people were lynched based on accusations of other crimes, including murder, arson, robbery, and vagrancy.

Many victims of lynchings were murdered without being accused of any crime. They were killed for violating social customs or racial expectations, such as speaking to white people with less respect than what white people believed they were owed.

How NAACP fought lynching

As Black Americans fled the South to escape the terror of lynchings, a historic event known as the Great Migration, people began to oppose lynchings in a number of ways. They conducted grassroots activism, such as boycotting white businesses. Anti-lynching crusaders like Ida B. Wells composed newspaper columns to criticize the atrocities of lynching.

And several important civil rights organizations - including NAACP - emerged during this time to combat racial violence.

NAACP led a courageous battle against lynching. In the July 1916 issue of The Crisis, ﻿editor W.E.B. Du Bois published a photo essay called "The Waco Horror" that featured brutal images of the lynching of Jesse Washington.

Washington was a 17-year-old Black teen lynched in Waco, Texas, by a white mob that accused him of killing Lucy Fryer, a white woman. Du Bois was able to turn postcards of Washington's murder against their creators to energize the anti-lynching movement. The Crisis's circulation grew by 50,000 over the next two years, and we raised $20,000 toward an anti-lynching campaign.

In 1919, NAACP published Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1919, to promote awareness of the scope of lynching. The data in this study offer the gruesome facts by number, year, state, color, sex, and alleged offense.

Among the campaign's other efforts, from 1920 to 1938, we flew a flag from our national headquarters in New York that bore the words "A man was lynched yesterday." The campaign turned the tide of public opinion and even persuaded some southern newspapers to oppose lynching because it was damaging the South's economic prospects.

We also fought hard for anti-lynching legislation. In 1918, Congressman Leonidas Dyer of Missouri first introduced his Anti-Lynching Bill - known as the Dyer Bill - into Congress. NAACP supported passage of the bill from 1919 onward, though it was defeated by a Senate filibuster. NAACP continued to push for federal anti-lynching legislation into the 1930s.

National lynching rates declined in the 1930s, a trend that NAACP Executive Secretary Walter White attributed to anti-lynching activism, shifts in public opinion, and the Great Migration. The first full year without a recorded lynching occurred in 1952.

The lynching of Emmet Till

The tide may have turned against lynching, but white supremacy and violence continued to terrorize Black communities. In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman. Till's murder and subsequent injustice deeply affected the Black community and galvanized a young generation of Black people to join the Civil Rights Movement.

NAACP declared Till's murder a lynching. Southeast Regional Director Ruby Hurley, Mississippi Field Secretary Medgar Evers, and Amzie Moore, president of the Bolivar County branch in Mississippi, initiated the homicide investigation and secured witnesses. An all-white jury acquitted the two men accused, who later bragged about their crimes in a magazine article.

Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley, Emmet Till's mother, decided to hold an open-casket funeral to put her son's brutalized body on display for the world to see. Jet Magazine published photos of his body in the casket, along with the headline "Negro Boy Was Killed for 'Wolf Whistle,'" causing national outrage among Black and white Americans alike, helping to catalyze the Civil Rights Movement.

Modern-day lynchings

You might think of lynchings as a disgraceful and barbaric practice from the past, but they continue to this day. In 1998, James Byrd was chained to a car by three white supremacists and dragged to his death in the streets of Jasper, Texas. In 2020, Ahmaud Arbery was fatally shot while jogging near Brunswick, Georgia. The three white men charged with killing Arbery claimed he was trespassing.

The videotaped death of George Floyd was a modern-day lynching. Floyd was killed in broad daylight by police officer Derek Chauvin, who held Floyd down with a knee on his neck for more than nine minutes.

Lynchings like these should not be part of American society today just as they should not have been 100 years ago. NAACP will continue to fight back against white supremacy and violence, and demand that people responsible, including law enforcement officers, be held accountable.

What we witnessed with George Floyd was that same public spectacle: someone in broad daylight with onlookers around, being killed at the hands of a law enforcement officer who has just complete disregard for human life and felt he was above the law.
- Derrick Johnson, NAACP President and CEO

Walter White, Investigator

In 1918, Walter White, NAACP Assistant Secretary, initially joined NAACP as an investigator. His fair skin and straight hair made him effective in conducting investigations of lynchings and race riots in the South. He could "pass" and talk to whites but identified as Black. Through 1927, White would investigate 41 lynchings.

Walter White lynching investigations featured in The Crisis:
The Lynching of Mary Turner, May 19, 1918 - Georgia
The lynching of Mary Turner in Brooks-Lowndes County, Georgia, was one of the lynching investigations by Walter White on behalf of NAACP. Abusive plantation owner, Hampton Smith, was shot and killed. A week-long manhunt resulted in the killing of Mary Turner's husband, Hayes Turner. Mary denied that her husband had been involved in Smith's killing, publicly opposed her husband's murder, and threatened to have members of the mob arrested.

On May 19, 1918, a mob of several hundred brought her to Folsom Bridge, tied Mary's ankles, hung her upside down from a tree, doused her in gasoline and motor oil and set her on fire. She was still alive when a member of the mob split her abdomen open with a knife. Her unborn child fell to the ground, was stomped and crushed. Mary's body was riddled with hundreds of bullets.

The September 1918 issue of The Crisis carried an account of the lynching.
The Lynching of Jesse McIlherron, February 1918 - Tennessee
The lynching of Jesse McIlherron was another Walter White investigation for NAACP. Jesse was a Black man who resented the slights and insults of white men. He stayed armed and the sheriff feared him. On February 8, 1918, he got into a quarrel with three young white men who insulted him. Threats were made and McIlherron shot and killed two of the men.

McIlherron fled to the home of a Black clergyman who aided him to escape and was later shot and killed by a mob. McIlherron was captured and lynched. McIlherron was chained to a hickory tree, a fire was built, and the torture began. Bars of iron were heated and the mob amused itself by putting them close to McIlherron, at first without touching him. He grasped at a bar and as it was jerked from his grasp, the inside of his hand came with it. Then, the real torturing began, lasting twenty minutes.

During that time, while his flesh was slowly roasting, Jesse never lost nerve. He cursed those who tortured him and almost to the last breath, derided the attempts of the mob to break his spirit.

An account of the lynching of Jesse was carried in the May 1918 issue of The Crisis.

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The early tradition

The Mississippi Delta style of blues-or, simply, Delta blues-emphasized solo performances by singers accompanying themselves on guitar and relying on a host of distinctive techniques, such as the sliding of a bottleneck or metal object (such as a knife) along the fingerboard to bend notes, the use of melodic phrases on the guitar to respond to the voice in an improvised call-and-response pattern, and a reliance on vamps (repeated chord progressions that precede the entrance of the voice) and melodic and rhythmic figures that often deviated from the typical chord progressions and formal 12-bar (measure) structure found in most blues performances. Above all, Delta blues music was marked by a particular intensity of vision that was both projected through the lyrics of the songs and underscored by the players' often aggressive attack on the guitar strings. Song topics encompassed familiar laments of failed romance, stories of sexual escapades (often described in double-entendre references), and tales of rambling and life on the road, as well as apocalyptic musings on salvation and damnation.

Performance venues were often informal and happenstance. W.C. Handy, composer of the classic "St. Louis Blues" (1914), recalled an early encounter with blues music about 1903 at a train station in Tutwiler, Mississippi, where he heard a man dressed in rags singing while playing the guitar with a knife. Performances also took place at juke joints (informal roadside taverns for drinking and dancing) on plantations and street corners. Folk music scholars John and Alan Lomax, meanwhile, documented Delta blues music in field recordings made at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, colloquially known as "Parchman Farm," in Sunflower county, Mississippi.

Scattered accounts by travelers and researchers indicate the prevalence of blues music in the Delta region since at least the turn of the 20th century, although no commercial recordings were made until the late 1920s. Associated primarily with male singer-guitarists, the Delta sound stood in marked contrast to earlier recordings of the "classic" blues singers, such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey, which had emphasized female vocalists working with small combo accompaniment. The Paramount record label enjoyed great success with the Delta blues recordings of Charley Patton, who had been a farmworker on Dockery Farms cotton plantation in Sunflower county, especially his "Pony Blues," which was released in 1929. The following year, Paramount made a series of recordings by Eddie ("Son") House, whose music failed to find a large audience at the time but exerted a powerful influence on later blues performers, notably Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters. Tommy Johnson, who recorded for both the Victor and Paramount labels, also contributed to the Delta legacy with his widely emulated guitar style; his "Big Road Blues" (1928) inspired the Mississippi Sheiks' "Stop and Listen Blues" (1930) as well as the 1968 rock hit "On the Road Again" by the band Canned Heat.

The recording of blues music was sharply curtailed during the Great Depression, yet a few traditional blues musicians from Mississippi continued to find opportunities to record. Skip James developed a deeply personal blues style on guitar-often using an unconventional tuning-as well as on piano. Although his 1931 recordings for Paramount sold poorly at the time, songs such as "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues," "Devil Got My Woman," and "I'm So Glad" later gained recognition as blues classics; the latter song was featured on a 1966 hit album by the rock-music trio Cream. Booker ("Bukka") White, another prominent Mississippi guitarist, enjoyed commercial success with his 1937 recording "Shake 'Em on Down," and in 1940 he recorded an especially influential group of songs, including "Parchman Farm Blues" and "District Attorney Blues," both of which addressed issues of social justice that were typically avoided in traditional blues music.

Robert Johnson, born in Hazelhurst, Mississippi, in 1911, was the most important Delta musician of the era, although his recorded legacy is limited to 29 songs-the output of sessions held in Dallas and San Antonio, Texas, during the last few years of his life. Drawing on the work of earlier Mississippi blues artists, notably Son House and Skip James, as well as on techniques learned from various recordings, Johnson crafted a polished, fluid guitar style that was widely emulated by later blues and rock musicians. Only his "Terraplane Blues" sold well during his lifetime, but in later decades, many musicians recorded Johnson's other compositions, such as "Sweet Home Chicago," "Love in Vain," "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom," and "Come On in My Kitchen." Robert Johnson, The Complete Recordings, released by Columbia in 1990, became a surprise crossover hit, ultimately selling more than a million copies and earning a Grammy Award for best historical album.

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The Rolling Stones are one of the most famous and successful rock 'n' roll bands of all time.

This summer, they're headed out on a U.S. stadium tour, the iconic band's first extended run of concerts in the United States since 2015.

In advance of their shows, check out these interesting facts you may not know about the band.

Their Logo Is Inspired By Kali, The Hindu Goddess Of Everlasting Energy

Known as "Tongue and Lips" or "Hot Lips," the band's famous logo was created by John Pasche, who designed art for other famous musicians in the '70s.

While Jagger requested the likeness of the Hindu goddess Kali, often depicted with a very pronounced mouth with the tongue sticking out, Pasche ended up using the front man's own mouth as his template for the signature logo. It debuted on 1971's "Sticky Fingers" LP.

Martin Scorcese Is A Big Fan

Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorcese has used the band's songs in several of his movies, including "Mean Streets," "Goodfellas," "Casino" and "The Departed." He also directed their 2008 concert film, "Shine A Light."

"Gimme Shelter" is a particular favorite of his, and the song made an appearance in "The Departed," "Casino" and "Goodfellas."

Mick Jagger And Keith Richards Were Classmates

Frontman Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards go way back, having met as pupils at Wentworth Primary School in Dartford, Kent, England. They went to separate secondary schools but reconnected when they ran into each other years later. They played their first gig together on July 12, 1962, in London.

They Work Well Under Pressure

Richards revealed that the band's first original song, "As Tears Go By," was written under duress when then-manager Andrew Loog Oldham locked him and Jagger in a kitchen for 36 hours until they came up with a tune. The song was originally recorded by Marianne Faithfull, and the Stones recorded their own version in 1965. It peaked at No. 6 on the American Billboard Charts.

Mick Jagger Has Eaten His Words

Back in 1975, Jagger didn't think he'd be performing for much longer.

"I only meant to do it for two years," he told People at the time. "I guess the band would just disperse one day and say goodbye. I would continue to write and sing, but I'd rather be dead than sing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45."

Of course, he's still playing "Satisfaction," as well as a myriad of the band's other hits, at the age of 75.

The Band Popularized The Tequila Sunrise

If you like to sip on a Tequila Sunrise on the beach, you can thank the Rolling Stones. In his autobiography, "Life," Richards says that the band's 1972 tour was unofficially known as the "cocaine and Tequila Sunrise" tour due to the band's drug and drink of choice at the time. They were introduced to the cocktail at the Trident in Sausalito, California.

Mick Jagger Has No Regrets-At Least When It Comes To His Outfits

In addition to his musical chops, Jagger became known for his bold fashion sense. Throughout his career, his eye-catching ensembles became as much a part of his identity as his trademark vocals.

"There are so many ghastly awful ones," he told the New York Times in 2016 of some of his fashion "misses" over the years, "but at the time, everyone loved them, you know what I mean?"

A Founding Member Was Fired Before the Stones Took Off

Ian Stewart, who often went by "Stu," was an original member of the Rolling Stones, but was fired by the band's manager because he felt Stewart (pictured below, right) didn't have the rock star look. However, he continued to play piano for the band and also acted as their road manager until his death in 1985.

"We are only here because of Ian Stewart," Richards said of Stewart's contributions. "Without him, the band would never have existed."

Mick Jagger Practices Ballet

In addition to running, swimming, Pilates and yoga, Jagger also turns to ballet to keep in shape. He certainly seems quite limber for his age! Melanie Hamrick, Jagger's girlfriend and the mother of their 2-year-old son Devereaux, is a professional ballerina.

The Beatles Wrote A Song For The Stones

Often pitted against each other for the unofficial title of the best rock band, the Beatles actually wrote a song that ended up being recorded by the Rolling Stones. Paul McCartney and John Lennon wrote "I Wanna Be Your Man" for the Stones in 1963, and it climbed to the top of the charts. Then Ringo Starr sang it on the Beatles album "With the Beatles," which came out just weeks later.

They're The 13th Best-Selling Music Artists Of All Time

Using the metric of total certified album units sold, as provided by the Recording Industry Association of America, the Stones are the 13th best-selling music artist of all time with 66.5 million units sold. That puts them right below Barbra Streisand (68.5 million). The top spot belongs to their rival the Beatles (178 million).

Their Concerts Are Still A Hot Ticket

When their "Zip Code" tour wrapped in 2015, it had grossed $109.7 million from 628,733 tickets sold at 14 concerts. That ranked them the top tour of the year, ahead of Dave Matthews Band and Billy Joel. Together with the two most recent tours before that, their three most recent tours grossed $401 million.

They Played For Free For A Crowd Of 1.5 Million

In 2006, the Rolling Stones staged a free concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They played for two hours for a crowd of 1.5 million. Jagger addressed the crowd in Portuguese throughout the show.

Keith Richards Has Gone Nine Days Without Sleep

The hard-partying guitarist says he once went nine full days without sleep.

"Nine days without a wink," he claimed in his autobiography, "Life."

"I fell asleep standing up, eventually," he wrote. "I was just putting another cassette back on the shelf, and I was feeling great, and I turned 'round and fell asleep. I fell against the edge of the speaker. Woke up in a pool of blood, wondering, 'Is that claret?'"

Keith Richards Was A Boy Scout

Although he cultivated a classic rebel image as an adult, Richards was actually a Boy Scout as a child. He credits the experience with teaching him the value of loyalty. He was eventually thrown out for getting into a fight.

Charlie Watts Doesn't Drive

Drummer Charlie Watts has a thing for vintage cars, despite the fact that he doesn't have a license.

"I do have four vintage cars and can't drive the bloody things," he told NME.

Ronnie Woods Wouldn't Do Chemotherapy

When guitarist Ronnie Woods was diagnosed with lung cancer, he was grateful it did not require chemotherapy. He says he would have refused the treatment if necessary.

"It's more I wasn't going to lose my hair," he told the Los Angeles Times in 2017 of his decision. "This hair wasn't going anywhere."

Jagger And Richards Were Bailed Out of Jail By The Mayor Of Boston

Ahead of a show in Boston in 1972, Jagger and Richards were arrested and jailed for assault in the wake of a fight that broke out at a small airport in Rhode Island. Then-Boston Mayor Kevin White bailed them out and attempted to keep the crowd calm while they waited for the rock stars to arrive. They ended up riding in a limousine, complete with a police escort, to their concert.

They've Dodged The Tax Man

The Stones recorded their 1972 album "Exile on Main Street" in France in an effort to avoid high taxes in England. With the aid of Dutch accounting firm Promogroup, the musicians established private foundations that would allow them to leave their vast wealth to their heirs, tax-free. The Netherlands does not tax royalty payments.

Mick Jagger Dropped Out Of College To Pursue A Career in Music

Before the Rolling Stones took off, Jagger balanced his budding rock 'n' roll career with his studies as a student at the London School of Economics. Eventually, he couldn't do both.

"It was very, very difficult because my parents obviously didn't want me to do it," he told Rolling Stone in 1995 of his decision to quit school.

Mick Jagger Thinks 'Exile On Main Street' Is Overrated

Although it's a critical favorite, Jagger doesn't think 1972's "Exile on Main Street" is the band's best work.

"It's a bit overrated, to be honest," he told Rolling Stone in 1995. "Compared to 'Let It Bleed' and 'Beggars Banquet,' which I think are more of a piece, I don't see it's as thematic as the other two."

There's A Mick Jagger-Carly Simon Duet That Was Lost for 46 Years

In 1972, Jagger recorded a duet with Carly Simon. The tape was lost until collector Matt Lee discovered it in 2018. The song is believed to be called "Fragile."

Mick Jagger Spends His Downtime Like Everyone Else

When it comes to taking a day off, Jagger spends his leisure time the way a lot of people do: relaxing.

"Get up as late as possible, have breakfast as late as possible, do a tiny bit in the gym, go out for a walk, read a book," he said of how he spends his time when he's not working. He's also an avid cricket fan.

The Original Cover Art for 'Beggars Banquet' Was Replaced

The original cover art for the 1968 album "Beggars Banquet" featured a bathroom wall full of graffiti. However, it was determined that showing a toilet was too taboo, and it was replaced with a much tamer design that resembled a formal invitation. The original art was not revealed until the 1980s.

Keith Richards' Kids Introduced Him To Ed Sheeran

When it comes to keeping up with modern music, Keith Richards relies on his kids to keep him hip.

"What have I heard lately? Ed Sheeran. I thought, he's very interesting," he told Rolling Stone in 2015.

Bono Admires Jagger's Business Sense

Fellow rocker Bono of U2 is grateful to Jagger for paving the way for musicians to make savvy financial moves.

"People despise Mick because they think he only thinks about money, but he is a businessman above all else," the singer said of Jagger. "The fact is, he understands the business. Why? Because the Stones lost a lot of money in the beginning. I have to kneel in reverence to what he has achieved."

They Were The First International Rock Band To Play In Cuba

In 2016, the Rolling Stones became the first international rock band to play in Cuba. Rock music was banned on state TV and radio in the country for years. The free concert was attended by more than 100,000 fans.

Mick Jagger Likes 'Moves Like Jagger'

Jagger thinks Maroon 5's 2010 hit named after his infamous dance skills is a great tribute. He called the song "very flattering."

The Stones Made Their Debut On 'The Ed Sullivan Show' in 1964

The Rolling Stones made their first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on Oct. 25, 1964. They performed the Chuck Berry song "Around & Around." They went on to make six appearances on the show by the end of the decade.

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Most Delta blues recordings were solo performances by singer-guitarists, though several notable recordings also feature some sort of minimal accompaniment - generally a second guitarist.

In the following list, you'll hear four of the greatest Delta blues artists, as well as an example of what some of today's musicians are doing with this timeless music in the 21st century. The first three songs are from decades-old 78 RPM records, so you'll hear "surface noise" from those discs, but don't let that put you off. Even through the hiss and crackle of well-worn 78s, the brilliance and power of these songs is undeniable and unforgettable.
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The early tradition

The Mississippi Delta style of blues-or, simply, Delta blues-emphasized solo performances by singers accompanying themselves on guitar and relying on a host of distinctive techniques, such as the sliding of a bottleneck or metal object (such as a knife) along the fingerboard to bend notes, the use of melodic phrases on the guitar to respond to the voice in an improvised call-and-response pattern, and a reliance on vamps (repeated chord progressions that precede the entrance of the voice) and melodic and rhythmic figures that often deviated from the typical chord progressions and formal 12-bar (measure) structure found in most blues performances. Above all, Delta blues music was marked by a particular intensity of vision that was both projected through the lyrics of the songs and underscored by the players' often aggressive attack on the guitar strings. Song topics encompassed familiar laments of failed romance, stories of sexual escapades (often described in double-entendre references), and tales of rambling and life on the road, as well as apocalyptic musings on salvation and damnation.

Performance venues were often informal and happenstance. W.C. Handy, composer of the classic "St. Louis Blues" (1914), recalled an early encounter with blues music about 1903 at a train station in Tutwiler, Mississippi, where he heard a man dressed in rags singing while playing the guitar with a knife. Performances also took place at juke joints (informal roadside taverns for drinking and dancing) on plantations and street corners. Folk music scholars John and Alan Lomax, meanwhile, documented Delta blues music in field recordings made at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, colloquially known as "Parchman Farm," in Sunflower county, Mississippi.

Scattered accounts by travelers and researchers indicate the prevalence of blues music in the Delta region since at least the turn of the 20th century, although no commercial recordings were made until the late 1920s. Associated primarily with male singer-guitarists, the Delta sound stood in marked contrast to earlier recordings of the "classic" blues singers, such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey, which had emphasized female vocalists working with small combo accompaniment. The Paramount record label enjoyed great success with the Delta blues recordings of Charley Patton, who had been a farmworker on Dockery Farms cotton plantation in Sunflower county, especially his "Pony Blues," which was released in 1929. The following year, Paramount made a series of recordings by Eddie ("Son") House, whose music failed to find a large audience at the time but exerted a powerful influence on later blues performers, notably Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters. Tommy Johnson, who recorded for both the Victor and Paramount labels, also contributed to the Delta legacy with his widely emulated guitar style; his "Big Road Blues" (1928) inspired the Mississippi Sheiks' "Stop and Listen Blues" (1930) as well as the 1968 rock hit "On the Road Again" by the band Canned Heat.

The recording of blues music was sharply curtailed during the Great Depression, yet a few traditional blues musicians from Mississippi continued to find opportunities to record. Skip James developed a deeply personal blues style on guitar-often using an unconventional tuning-as well as on piano. Although his 1931 recordings for Paramount sold poorly at the time, songs such as "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues," "Devil Got My Woman," and "I'm So Glad" later gained recognition as blues classics; the latter song was featured on a 1966 hit album by the rock-music trio Cream. Booker ("Bukka") White, another prominent Mississippi guitarist, enjoyed commercial success with his 1937 recording "Shake 'Em on Down," and in 1940 he recorded an especially influential group of songs, including "Parchman Farm Blues" and "District Attorney Blues," both of which addressed issues of social justice that were typically avoided in traditional blues music.

Robert Johnson, born in Hazelhurst, Mississippi, in 1911, was the most important Delta musician of the era, although his recorded legacy is limited to 29 songs-the output of sessions held in Dallas and San Antonio, Texas, during the last few years of his life. Drawing on the work of earlier Mississippi blues artists, notably Son House and Skip James, as well as on techniques learned from various recordings, Johnson crafted a polished, fluid guitar style that was widely emulated by later blues and rock musicians. Only his "Terraplane Blues" sold well during his lifetime, but in later decades, many musicians recorded Johnson's other compositions, such as "Sweet Home Chicago," "Love in Vain," "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom," and "Come On in My Kitchen." Robert Johnson, The Complete Recordings, released by Columbia in 1990, became a surprise crossover hit, ultimately selling more than a million copies and earning a Grammy Award for best historical album.

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