Estate Living Digital Publication Issue 5 May 2015 | Page 69

London
Brian Jones, Ian Stewart, Mick Jagger,
Keith Richards, Bill Wyman and Charlie
Watts set up the Rolling Stones in
London in 1962 and were instrumental
in making blues a major part of rock
and roll. While their single, Exile on
Main St. is generally considered to be
the band’s best work, Let It Bleed was
actually their first of five consecutive
number one studio and live albums
in the UK.The band was inducted into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in
1989, and their twenty-nine studio
albums, eighteen live albums and
numerous compilations have earned
them an estimated album sales well
above $250 million.

Netherlands
Not to be confused with an earlier
film titled with the same name, Golden
Earring was a successful Dutch rock
band, founded in 1961 in The Hague.
The band achieved international fame
with their hit songs “Radar Love”,
“Twilight Zone” and “When the Lady
Smiles”. The band’s line-up currently
consists of co-founders and continuous
members since 1970 and produced
nearly 30 top-ten singles on the Dutch
charts and 25 studio albums.

Germany
Having celebrated half a century of
musical accomplishments this year,The
Scorpions are undoubtedly one of the
most famous and longest existing rock
bands in the world and the first non
Anglo-Saxon rock band to achieve
international success. Their five albums,
one compilation and six number
one singles in different countries,
amassed more than 100 million audio
recordings being sold. Formed in
1965 in Hannover, the group became
synonymous with melodic heavy metal,
powerful rock ballads and hard rock.
Their best-selling album Crazy World
contains the song “Wind of Change”,
a symbolic anthem of the political
changes in Eastern Europe in the late
1980s and the fall of the Berlin Wall
and is one of the best-selling singles
in the world with over fourteen million
copies sold.