# A Rolling Stones question I shouldn't have to ask **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 1, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rolling-stones-question-i-shouldnt-have-to-ask/739119 "2015-12-01T16:27:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rolling-stones-question-i-shouldnt-have-to-ask/739119/1 "2015-12-01T16:27:47Z")
Have the Rolling Stones ever been featured in the periodical that is their namesake? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rolling-stones-question-i-shouldnt-have-to-ask/739119/2 "2015-12-01T16:38:55Z")
Many times. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rolling-stones-question-i-shouldnt-have-to-ask/739119/3 "2015-12-01T16:40:01Z")
Many, many times, as both the group, and as individuals (such as the [cover article on Keith Richards](http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/2015/media/211977/_original/1444165687/1035x1407-R1246_cover_Keith_SML.jpg) 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”: > **[The Rolling Stones: Torn and Frayed in the South of France](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-rolling-stones-torn-and-frayed-in-the-south-of-france-2-232185/)** > > Mick Jagger and Keith Richards look back on the birth of gritty masterpiece ‘Exile on Main Street’ ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rolling-stones-question-i-shouldnt-have-to-ask/739119/4 "2015-12-01T16:41:29Z")
Thanx. aHA. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rolling-stones-question-i-shouldnt-have-to-ask/739119/5 "2015-12-01T16:41:43Z")
Well, they’ve been on the cover 14 times according to Wikipedia. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rolling-stones-question-i-shouldnt-have-to-ask/739119/6 "2015-12-01T16:48:34Z")
Did they buy five copies for their mother each time? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rolling-stones-question-i-shouldnt-have-to-ask/739119/7 "2015-12-01T16:52:45Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rolling-stones-question-i-shouldnt-have-to-ask/739119/8 "2015-12-01T17:02:20Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > aHA. Yes. [_Take On Me_](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/rolling-stone-readers-pick-the-top-10-one-hit-wonders-of-all-time-20110504/1-a-ha-take-on-me-0573531) won a Rolling Stone readers’ survey for one-hit wonders. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rolling-stones-question-i-shouldnt-have-to-ask/739119/9 "2015-12-01T21:07:42Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Yes. > [_Take On Me_](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/rolling-stone-readers-pick-the-top-10-one-hit-wonders-of-all-time-20110504/1-a-ha-take-on-me-0573531) 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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rolling-stones-question-i-shouldnt-have-to-ask/739119/10 "2015-12-01T21:38:08Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > 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. 🙂 Morten? That you? It’s me, Magne, mate. Sup? ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rolling-stones-question-i-shouldnt-have-to-ask/739119/11 "2015-12-01T22:12:57Z")
Incidentally, the publication _Rolling Stone_ actually took its name from the Dylan song. (Guess which one?) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rolling-stones-question-i-shouldnt-have-to-ask/739119/12 "2015-12-01T22:18:06Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Yes. They were a pretty famous band. They must have been in **Rolling Stone** more than once. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rolling-stones-question-i-shouldnt-have-to-ask/739119/13 "2015-12-01T22:50:12Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Incidentally, the publication _Rolling Stone_ actually took its name from the Dylan song. (Guess which one?) Like a Muddy Waters? > [@](#): > > “You’re probably wondering what we’re trying to do. It’s hard to say: sort of a magazine and sort of a newspaper. The name of it is Rolling Stone which comes from an old saying, “A rolling stone gathers no moss.” Muddy Waters used the name for a song he wrote. The Rolling Stones took their name from Muddy’s song. “Like a Rolling Stone” was the title of Bob Dylan’s first rock and roll record. We have begun a new publication reflecting what we see are the changes in rock and roll and the changes related to rock and roll.”—Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone, November 9, 1967, p. 2 ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rolling-stones-question-i-shouldnt-have-to-ask/739119/14 "2015-12-01T23:42:59Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Have the Rolling Stones ever been featured in the periodical that is their namesake? 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. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rolling-stones-question-i-shouldnt-have-to-ask/739119/15 "2015-12-02T00:04:33Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > The Rolling Stones predate Rolling Stone magazine, so you are either mistaking your chronology or your definition of namesake. 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.