The Rolling Stones

The Stones didn't have The One With The Big Nose, they had The One With The Big Lips. His name was Mick Jagger and astonishingly, all these years later, it still is. But much else has changed in that time.

For a start, four of those five original Stones are now over 40 years older, but despite their age they still "rock" and still take delight in shocking - They perform shocking concerts, give shocking interviews and make shocking records . . . and Bill Wyman still has sex with young girls less than half his age - including one or two who are barely into their thirties.

And although Brian Jones is long dead, Keith Richard is NOT - despite the fact that he's had more drugs than ICI in his lifetime. Work that one out!

So while The Rolling Stones are (very) arguably 'the best rock and roll band in the world™', they are incontestably the oldest rock and roll band in the world.

In the 60s, The Stones (the name came from a Muddy Waters track) became the living symbol of rebelliousness. Everywhere they went they caused offence with their threatening behaviour, foul language and blatant promiscuity. They were the archetypal Bad Boys Of Rock.

Following a gig on 1 July 1965, the group pulled up at the all-night Francis Service Station on Romford Road, Stratford (UK). After being told the lavatories were being renovated and being refused permission to use the private toilet, Bill Wyman "urinated against the boundary wall of the service station", with Mick Jagger and Brain Jones following suit further down the street.

The trio were charged and stood trial - during which the press had a hoot after it was revealed that, during the incident, Jagger had sneered: "we'll piss anywhere, man". The Stones were ordered to pay £3 each plus costs.

The group survived the 'scandal' but were brought to book for drug-related offences in 1967. There were also sex scandals (mention a Mars Bar to Mick and he'll automatically think of Marianne Faithfull), riots, and even murders in the audience.

Brian Jones was effectively kicked out of the band in June 1969. The former salesman at Whiteley's department store in London was found dead in his swimming pool a month later. The coroner concluded death by misadventure.

Trouble arose when preparing to begin recording the Dirty Work album in 1985. When Mick saucily referred to Charlie Watts as "my drummer", Charlie famously replied "Don't ever call me 'your drummer' again. You're my fucking singer".

Keith commented later that "Charlie punched him into a plate full of smoked salmon and he almost floated out the window along the table into a canal in Amsterdam".

Mick Jagger received a knighthood on 12 December 2003 for his services to music. Keith Richards immediately described the honour as "fucking paltry", prompting Sir Mick to retort that Keith was just sore that he hadn't got one too.