#Ian Stu Stewart

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The Stones at the Top of the Pops

Stu replaced Bill on this tv performance

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5:27 AM EDT September 7, 2024:

Led Zeppelin - "Boogie With Stu" From the album Physical Graffiti (February 24, 1975)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Ian Stewart here becomes the only outside musician to play on more than one Led Zeppelin track (cf "Rock and Roll")

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1965 - Brian Jones and behind him Ian "Stu" Stewart (Germany Tour 1965)

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Ian Andrew Robert Stewart, Scottish keyboard player and manager of the Rolling Stones was born on 18th July 1938 in Pittenweem Fife

Not many know that the Rolling Stones started off as a six-piece band with Sir Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Ian Stewart, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts. Soon later Ronnie Wood was added to the line-up, who replaced Brian’s replacement, Mick Taylor. Ian played with the band for many years, though was not a member in the conventional sense.

Ian Stewart responded to Brian Jones’ advert in Jazz News magazine in 1962, keen to be the keyboardist for a new group.

He had been working with Brian previously, as well as drummer Charlie Watts, and the three reunited for Brian’s new project, as well as childhood friends Keith Richards and Sir Mick Jagger.

Before their reunion, another drummer was in the picture, Mick Avery, who went on to drum for The Kinks, as well as bassist Dick Taylor.

Dick and Mick left the band, to be replaced by Charlie and Bill Wyman, who made the first line up.

Ian was not only the keyboardist, but he also was the only member of the band with a phone in their early years, meaning he handled a great deal of the bookings and administration for the band.

His phone was actually at his desk for his day job at a chemical company, meaning he spent some of his working days doing jobs for the band.

They took on Andrew Loog Oldham to be their manager, who was a teenager at the time but had worked publicity for The Beatles and Bob Dylan, as well as being an assistant to fashion designer Mary Quant.

One of Andrew’s key ‘strategies,’ on taking on The Rolling Stones, was to cut down the line-up to a five-piece, given this was something which resonated better with fans.

As a result, Ian was fired from the official line-up but was told he could still tour with the band, and record in the studio.

Keith Richards spoke about this moment in the band’s autobiography, praising Ian - known as Stu - for his attitude to the devastating news.

He said: "[Stu] might have realised that in the way it was going to have to be marketed, he would be out of sync, but that he could still be a vital part.

“I'd probably have said, 'Well, f**k you', but he said 'OK, I'll just drive you around.'

While he was rarely seen in the public eye, he still contributed on most of their records until 1986, and became their tour manager, driving the band to gigs and helping them with their equipment.

He played on most of their albums from 1964 until 1986, except for Their Satanic Majesties Request, Beggars Banquet, and Some Girls.

Sir Mick even suggested it was him who gave them their “groove” on certain songs, and they insisted his name was included when the band was inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame.

He said: “Stu was the one guy we tried to please.

"We wanted his approval when we were writing or rehearsing a song."

Keith Richards, in his autobiography, said of Ian: “Ian Stewart, I'm still working for him. To me, the Rolling Stones is his band."

Ian contributed to other bands’ work as well, such as Led Zeppelin and Howlin’ Wolf, but in December 1985, he went to a clinic to seek help with respiratory problems.

On December 12th 1985, he had a heart attack in the waiting room of a clinic and died, aged 47.

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Charlie Watts and Ian "Stu" Stewart at the North Sea Jazz Festival The Hague, Holland (The Netherlands) July 14, 1979

The video isn't the best quality. but hey, whatever. it was a pretty enjoyable performance 🎶

i didn't see Stu, but apparently he's there.

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July 18, 2024: 2pm ET: Feature LP: Ben Waters - Boogie 4 Stu: A Tribute to Ian Stewart (2011)

Boogie 4 Stu: A Tribute to Ian Stewart Review by William Ruhlmann (AllMusic) In Life, his 2010 autobiography, Keith Richards makes clear that boogie-woogie pianist Ian Stewart was the organizing principle in the Rolling Stones, calling the first audition/rehearsal that led to the formation of the band, even though, when the group was offered a recording contract, he was shunted aside as an…

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REMEMBERING IAN 'STU' STEWART

REMEMBERING IAN ‘STU’ STEWART

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Ian Stewart (18 July 1938 – 12 December 1985) was a #keyboardist and co-founder of the #rock #band Rolling Stones. He was dismissed from the line-up in May 1963 but he remained as road manager and #pianist. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Born at Kirklatch Farm, Pittenweem, East Neuk, Fife, Scotland, and raised in Sutton, Surrey, Stewart (often called Stu) started playing piano when he was six. He took up the banjo and played with amateur groups on both instruments.[1] Stewart, who loved rhythm & blues, boogie-woogie, bluesand big-band jazz, was first to respond to Brian Jones’s advertisement in Jazz News of 2 May 1962 seeking musicians to form a rhythm & blues group.[2]Mick Jagger and Keith Richards joined in June, and the group, with Dick Taylor on bass and Mick Avory on drums, played their first gig under the name the Rollin’ Stones at the Marquee Club on 12 July 1962.[3][4]

Richards described meeting Stewart thus: “He used to play boogie-woogie piano in jazz clubs, apart from his regular job. He blew my head off too, when he started to play. I never heard a white piano player play like that before.”[5] By December 1962 and January 1963, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts had joined, replacing a series of bassists and drummers.[6]

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R.I.P. CHARLIE WATTS — Rolling Stones Drummer

R.I.P. CHARLIE WATTS — Rolling Stones Drummer

Apparently, the first musical instrument CHARLIE WATTS owned was a banjo.  The boy was fourteen. After playing for a while, he remodelled the banjo into a drum. Once his parents saw how much he loved the drum, they bought him a drum kit for Christmas. He gave up the banjo. Was this creative rebellion, resolve, or simple obstinacy? Whatever it was, his musical career was marked with the same…

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Take it, Stu

Royal Albert Hall

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5:24 PM EDT July 27, 2024:

Led Zeppelin - “Boogie With Stu” From the album Physical Graffiti (February 24, 1975)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Ian Stewart here becomes the only outside musician to play on more than one Led Zeppelin track (cf “Rock and Roll”)

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Ian "Stu" Stewart, Brian Jones and new strings for Brian's guitar Gibson Firebird VII - cca 1966

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Double Exposure photos taken by Ian “Stu” Stewart(an original Rolling Stone) of Brian Jones’ “A Degree of Murder” soundtrack sessions with Jimmy Page, Kenney Jones, and others; Rolling Stones sessions with Glyn Johns, and a Duke Ellington/Ella Fitzgerald London concert.

From Brian Jones Resource FB page:

Here's a number of photos taken by Stu in February 1967 at IBC and Olympic Sound Studios. They have double exposure of a concert by Duke Ellington Orchestra with Ella Fitzgerlad who toured UK in February 1967.

There was an overlapping of Brian's A Degree Of Murder/Mord Und Totschlag soundtrack and stones sessions. These seem to be taken on same day with Brian working at IBC and then Olympic with the stones or vice versa. The photos of Brian playing percussion are in Olympic with Mick and Glyn visible in the studio control room.

In addition to The Rolling Stones, people shown in these photos at IBC Studios include Jimmy Page, Kenney Jones and Glyn Johns. At Olympic Sound Studios we can see Glyn Johns and Eddie Kramer.

From the double exposure of Duke Ellington Orchestra with Ella Fitzgerald concert we can see drummer Rufus Jones, Duke Ellington and members of his horn section.