The Rolling Stones - Miss You

When I started this "Music for the Next Generation" series, I don't think I originally planned to include the Rolling Stones. Everyone knows the Rolling Stones, right?Well, a few days ago, I realized that while the Beatles are widely famous in Japan, it turns out that the Rolling Stones are not.I always grew up seeing the Rolling Stones and the Beatles as indissociable from each other, as the yin and the yang of rock n' roll... And yet, while my daughter's knowledge of Western music is almost non-existent, she instantly recognized the Abbey Road reference on the cover of this book that I'm currently reading, you can hear songs from the Beatles quite regularly on TV, even as background music of random talk shows (how they get the rights is a mystery to me), and it's not rare that I see Japanese people referencing them. On the other hand, after realizing that I never hear about the Rolling Stones in Japan, I started polling people around me, paying attention to what music is played here…