A Rolling Stones question I shouldn't have to ask

Have the Rolling Stones ever been featured in the periodical that is their namesake?

Many times.

Many, many times, as both the group, and as individuals (such as the cover article on Keith Richards from a few weeks ago).

Here’s a very cool long-form article from RS, from 2010, on the making of “Exile on Main Street”:

Thanx.
aHA.

Well, they’ve been on the cover 14 times according to Wikipedia.

Did they buy five copies for their mother each time?

I don’t know, but RS followed up their 1973 Dr. Hook cover story by saying, yes, they did buy five copies for their mothers.

Yes.
Take On Me won a Rolling Stone readers’ survey for one-hit wonders.

Which is dumb, since Aha had TWO hits in the US. Take On Me and *The Sun Always Shines on TV *and five songs that charted overall. Not counting hits outside the US. :slight_smile:

Morten? That you?

It’s me, Magne, mate. Sup?

Incidentally, the publication Rolling Stone actually took its name from the Dylan song. (Guess which one?)

They were a pretty famous band. They must have been in Rolling Stone more than once.

Like a Muddy Waters?

The Rolling Stones predate Rolling Stone magazine, so you are either mistaking your chronology or your definition of namesake.

The band takes their name from Muddy Waters’ song “Rollin’ Stone” as Exapno Mapcase mentions above. The magazine’s name origin is a bit … well, muddy. Jan Wenner has said at various times that he named it after the Muddy Waters song, the Bob Dylan song, and the Rolling Stones themselves.

A namesake is a thing that has a similar or identical name to another, “especially (but not exclusively) if the person or thing is actually named after another” (Wiki). **dougie_monty **is correct in calling the magazine the band’s namesake.