# Rolling Stone(s)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-s/9064>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 23, 2000, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-s/9064 "2000-03-23T03:57:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Kristene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Kristene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kristene)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-s/9064/1 "2000-03-23T03:57:00Z")

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What came first; the Dylan song, the band, or the magazine???

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-s/9064/2 "2000-03-23T04:04:00Z")

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Actually, you could start in 1935, or so…{url][http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/kowalski/112/artistswithsongs/robert\_wilkins\_1.htm#rolling\_stone](http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/kowalski/112/artistswithsongs/robert_wilkins_1.htm#rolling_stone)

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**Author:** ![bda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@bda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bda)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-s/9064/3 "2000-03-23T06:08:00Z")

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1. the band('62 or '63)
2. dylan song('65)
3. the mag('67)

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**Author:** ![Moonshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Moonshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonshine)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-s/9064/4 "2000-03-23T10:11:00Z")

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IIRC The Stones found their name in a Muddy Waters song, and Dylan wrote his song in part for the Stones.

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**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-s/9064/5 "2000-03-23T16:26:00Z")

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Moonshine nailed it:

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> Formed in London in 1962, the band was originally called Rollin’ Stones, named by lead guitarist Brian Jones after a song by Muddy Waters, whose style of music he wanted to play. The following year they added a G to their name at the insistence of their new management…

from _Rock Names_ by Adam Dolgins

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**Gypsy** : Tom, I don’t get you.  
**Tom Servo** : Nobody does. I’m the wind, baby.

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**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-s/9064/6 "2000-03-23T17:34:00Z")

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Papa was a rolling stone.

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**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-s/9064/7 "2000-03-23T17:43:00Z")

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Certainly the proverb about gathering no moss predates all of the above by decades, if not centuries.

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“I used to think the brain was the most important organ in the body, until I realized who was telling me that.”  
Emo Phillips