The Rolling Stones have been famous for more than half their lives, and over the years they've recorded and reveled from one end of the globe to the other.
Southeastern England is where you'll find the most Stones sites: Aside from guitarist Brian Jones, all were born there. It was there that the music and applause began.Here are some places you may want to see.
London
-- Ealing Blues Club (Ealing): The now-closed club at 42-A Broadway was where Jagger made his singing debut, March 17, 1962, with Blues Incorporated.
-- Marquee Club (Oxford Street): Originally a basement coffee bar and jazz club when it opened April 13, 1958, the Marquee became the proving ground for a dazzling array of yet-to-be-known London bands in pop music's English Invasion. One early house band was Blues Incorporated, and members of the ever-changing lineup included young Jones and Jagger.
-- Olympic Studios (Barnes): The Edwardian-vintage theater at 117 Church Road evolved into one of London's major recording studios. In August 1967 the Stones cut "We Love You" here.
-- 48 Cheyne Walk (Chelsea): It's right on the Thames. Jagger owned this expensive Queen Ann townhouse (built in 1711) between 1967 and 1978. He lived here with girlfriend Faithful and, later, wife Bianca.
-- 3 Cheyne Walk: Richards and live-in Anita Pallenberg lived here in riverside luxury between 1969 and 1978.
-- Brixton Prison (Brixton): Jagger spent a night in a cell here on Jebb Avenue after his conviction for the Redlands drug bust; to pass the time he wrote "2,000 Light Years from Home" and "We Love You," which opens with the slamming of a cell door.
-- Wormwood Scrubs Prison (Shepherd's Bush): Richards and Jones each spent a night here on drug convictions; both were freed from extended stays after legal appeals. It's on Du Cane Road.
Outside London
-- Richmond Hill (Richmond, Surrey): Jagger bought the Georgian Downe House in this exclusive area of suburban London in 1991. Another property, the Wick House, was owned by Stones guitarist Ronnie Lane in the 1970s; bandmate Richards lived for a while in a cottage on the grounds.
-- Crawdaddy Club (Richmond, Surrey): The young Stones got their start here in January 1963 when Dave Hunt's band (which included future Kinks leader Ray Davies) pulled a no-show. It was here as the Sunday house band that the Stones met Andrew Oldham, their first major manager; they also first met the Beatles, who had come down from Liverpool to see the equally up-and-coming London outfit.
-- Redlands (West Wittering, Sussex): Flush with fame and money, Richards bought this old mansion in 1966 for about $29,000. It was at a party here Feb. 12, 1967, that Jagger and Richards were arrested on drug possession charges. They were found guilty, but because of public pressure (and a supportive editorial in The Times of London), they spent barely a night behind bars. The house is on Redlands Lane, behind a wall and thick foliage.
-- Cotchford Farm (Hartfield, Sussex): This was Jones' mansion at the time of his death; his body was found at the bottom of the swimming pool July 2, 1969, just months after he had been fired from the Stones. The cause of death was listed as "misadventure" but rumors persist that he died of a drug overdose or was accidentally killed by workmen making repairs to his estate.
-- Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Jones, born Lewis Brian Hopkins-Jones, attended Dean Close Public School and then Cheltenham Grammar School here (on the Bath Road), a two-hour drive northwest of London via M40. He left at age 14, when he got a girl pregnant. Hatherley Road Parish Church was the site of his funeral on July 10, 1969.
He's buried in Cheltenham Cemetery, on Priors Road. His grave can be found in Section V, on the corner near the roadside.
Information for this article was compiled from "Rock & Roll Traveler: Great Britain and Ireland," an invaluable resource by Ed Glinert and Tim Perry (Fodor's, $19, paperback); "The Rock & Pop Map of Great Britain" (British Tourist Authority, free); "Stone Alone: The Story of a Rock 'n' Roll Band," by Bill Wyman with Ray Coleman (Viking, $22.95, hardcover); "The Tombstone Tourist," by Scott Stanton (3T Publishing, $19.95, paperback); "1999 London Restaurants" (Zagat Survey, $11.95, paperback).