I'm a romantic and i like to think they would meet anyone because they were destined to be friends and make music together but in the case the Stones didn't exist our popular culture would look really different.

Even to this days Young singers take inspiration, Harry Styles has been trying to be Jagger-like, for example.

Personally...

For starters my high school sweetheart would not have broken up with me. I skipped her birthday to camp overnight at my first Stones concert - Akron Rubber Bowl, July 11, 1972. I was 18, she 16.

I would not have learned to work Ticketmaster like a pro and get front row seats to tons of other concerts.

There are 12 cities, 4 states, and 1 country that I never would have experienced.

Most important...I would never have learned guitar or had nearly as much fun in life. And, um...that also led to a pretty good sex life when I was young.



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They would have met elsewhere for sure. They are, after all, twins, drawn to each other by destiny.

Another parallel universe: what would have happened if Keith Richards hadn't been holding a Chuck Berry record in his hand?

He wasnt ....it was Mick who had the records ./....



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He wasnt ....it was Mick who had the records ./....

That's what I've always read too. But that's not what it says in Keith Richards' Life.

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Yeah the story sways a little
but the main thing is that they met there that day.....



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They would not have been The Rolling Stones if they hadn’t met Brian.

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They would not have been The Rolling Stones if they hadn’t met Brian.

Agreed! ... and similarly, Brian would never had been the RS if he hadn't met Mick & Keith

Mick would be a hedge fund billionaire & Keith would be a musician living on the dole. & Keith would be happier.

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They would not have been The Rolling Stones if they hadn’t met Brian.

Jagger and Richards would have been equally famous though.

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---we'd all have more money in the bank ..and wouldn't be wasting half our free time hanging around here.

Reading all of you guys since 2002 while listening to stones music has been a real pleasure in my life, thank you guys, thank you Rolling Stones, and most importantly, thank you BV!!

I'll second that .

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They would not have been The Rolling Stones if they hadn’t met Brian.

Jagger and Richards would have been equally famous though.

Mathijs

How do you know that? If they hadn’t answered Brian’s invitation to join him how do you know they both would have been in the same band .If they hadn’t been in the same band they wouldn’t collaborated on the great catalogue of songs they wrote together

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They would not have been The Rolling Stones if they hadn’t met Brian.

Jagger and Richards would have been equally famous though.

Mathijs

How do you know that? If they hadn’t answered Brian’s invitation to join him how do you know they both would have been in the same band .If they hadn’t been in the same band they wouldn’t collaborated on the great catalogue of songs they wrote together

They were already in the same band, a band that merged with Brian's. They could have gone separate ways, but theu didn't.

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Mick would be a hedge fund billionaire & Keith would be a musician living on the dole. & Keith would be happier.

We've got nothing to eat
We got nowhere to work
Nothing to drink
We just lost our shirts
I'm on the dole
We ain't for hire
Say what the hell
Say what the hell, hang fire

- Mick would be a happily retired successful businessman
- Keith would be a happily retired bluesman
- Only poor Bill would never had so many chances to shag girls

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- Only poor Bill would never had so many chances to shag girls

Bill may have found another way to catch girls.





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- Only poor Bill would never had so many chances to shag girls

Bill may have found another way to catch girls.

Wow...that Perks him right up!

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They would not have been The Rolling Stones if they hadn’t met Brian.

Jagger and Richards would have been equally famous though.

Mathijs

How do you know that? If they hadn’t answered Brian’s invitation to join him how do you know they both would have been in the same band .If they hadn’t been in the same band they wouldn’t collaborated on the great catalogue of songs they wrote together

Because Jagger and Richards were friends, playing music, trying to get a band going, and hanging out in the jazz clubs of London trying to get a gig. They would have ended up in a band one way or another, and their huge talents would have made them seccesful one way or another.

They answered an add by Brian, but it could have been anyone's add they answered too.

The same with McCartney and Lennon: they were so hugely talented that they would have been succesful anyhow. They didn't need Ringo or George to become famous.

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- Only poor Bill would never had so many chances to shag girls

I found the solution : see my post on p.1. The only difference with a career in the band would have been to bribe the London Vice squad regularly.

But They did, so what

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They would not have been The Rolling Stones if they hadn’t met Brian.

Jagger and Richards would have been equally famous though.

Mathijs

How do you know that? If they hadn’t answered Brian’s invitation to join him how do you know they both would have been in the same band .If they hadn’t been in the same band they wouldn’t collaborated on the great catalogue of songs they wrote together

Because Jagger and Richards were friends, playing music, trying to get a band going, and hanging out in the jazz clubs of London trying to get a gig. They would have ended up in a band one way or another, and their huge talents would have made them seccesful one way or another.

They answered an add by Brian, but it could have been anyone's add they answered too.

The same with McCartney and Lennon: they were so hugely talented that they would have been succesful anyhow. They didn't need Ringo or George to become famous.

Mathijs

Yeah I think you're right on that Mathijs.

And it's one thing to say they were hugely talented, but a lot of people are and never make it. There is an immense drive required to be and stay successful and I think that those duos had that...perhaps they needed to stay duos to achieve it but those teams of two would have been successful in the industry in one way or another.

They just had it in them.

Predestined, so question is moot