According to Keith Richards, Brian Jones named the band during a phone call to Jazz News. When asked by a journalist for the band's name, Jones saw a Muddy Waters LP lying on the floor. One of the tracks was "Rollin' Stone".

Known as "Tongue and Lips" or "Hot Lips," the band's famous logo was created by art student John Pasche in 1970. 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.

On October 25, 1964, the Stones made their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. They had to share the evening with violinist Itzhak Perlman, comedy duo Stiller and Meara, and a family of acrobats. Sullivan had to repeatedly quiet the screaming teens in the audience during the not-so-rocking acts. The pandemonium caused by the Stones led the Sullivan show to ban them from any future appearances. But the ban was short-lived, and they were back the following year.

In "Sympathy for the Devil", Jagger sings in first person narrative as the Devil, boasting of his role in several historical atrocities. The singer then ironically demands sympathy and chastises the listeners for their collective culpability in the listed killings and crimes.

"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was a huge success, giving the Stones their first international No. 1 hit, but it was originally only considered by the band as a potential B-side or album track.

The tequila sunrise, a cocktail made of tequila, orange juice, and grenadine syrup, was created by two young bartenders at the Trident, a restaurant in Sausalito, California north of San Francisco. In 1972, at a private party at the Trident to kick off the Rolling Stones' 1972 tour in America, Mick Jagger had one of the cocktails, liked it, and he and his entourage started drinking them. They later ordered them all across America, even dubbing the tour itself their "cocaine and tequila sunrise tour."

Although he cultivated a classic rebel image as an adult, Keith Richards was actually a Boy Scout as a child. "It was mainly a chance to swagger around with a knife on your belt," he claims. Unfortunately for Keith, "you didn't get the knife until you got a few badges."

With no lovin' in our souls
And no money in our coats
You can't say we're satisfied
Angie, Angie
You can't say we never tried

Because the band's songwriting developed slowly, songs on their first album The Rolling Stones (1964), were primarily covers, with only one Jagger/Richards original--"Tell Me (You're Coming Back)"--and two numbers credited to Nanker Phelge, the pen name used for songs written by the entire group.

Jagger contributed backing vocals and Brian Jones played the oboe on the Beatles' "Baby You're a Rich Man". In return, Lennon and McCartney provided high harmonies on "We Love You".