The Rolling Stones eventually developed into a band capable of writing their own No. 1 hits, but they relied on cover songs and kind composers giving them music on many of their early tunes. John Lennon and Paul McCartney gave the Stones the song that became their first hit. Mick Jagger and Keith Richard gave away a top-10 hit to another musician before The Rolling Stones notched a top-10 tune of their own.
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards gave away their first top-10 song, ‘That Girl Belongs to Yesterday’
The Beatles mined the catalogs of Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry for some of their earliest hits. The Rolling Stones were no different. They relied on cover songs early in their career. A Berry cover (“Come On”) became the band’s first charting single in July 1963. Their version of Holly’s “Not Fade Away” was the Stones’ first top-10 single in England, in April 1964.
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