{"id":690689,"date":"2026-07-14T07:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690689\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T07:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:03:09","slug":"i-recorded-early-rolling-stones-demo-but-no-one-was-interested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690689\/","title":{"rendered":"I recorded early Rolling Stones demo, but no-one was interested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Florence said the 1963 session featured the classic 1960s five-piece line-up of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts and the band&#8217;s long-standing keyboard player\/associate Ian Stewart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Not long after that first session, The Rolling Stones returned to the studio to record another four tracks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having worked with the band twice, Florence remembered them as being very polite and well-spoken, describing them as &#8220;college boys&#8221;, and &#8220;not yobbos&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Florence said the new recordings were added on to a tape alongside their earlier work, all eight of which were R&amp;B covers, but he could not now recall the songs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I thought, &#8216;you know &#8211; a tremendous band&#8217;, and we sent them off again and no-one was interested, and we were very disappointed so we left it at that,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florence said the 1963 session featured the classic 1960s five-piece line-up of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-690689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}