Keith Richards Revealed What His First Date With Mick Jagger Was Like At 18

Few encounters changed rock history as much as the first conversation between Keith Richards and Mick Jagger. Without that seemingly ordinary moment, the Rolling Stones would likely never have existed. In accounts made when he was still very young, Keith Richards described meeting Mick Jagger again at a train station in England in the early 1960s. The two had already known each other as children, but lost contact over the years. The reunion happened by chance when Richards noticed that Jagger carried American blues records by artists such as Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry. At that moment, something immediately caught his attention. The two began talking about music and discovered a shared passion for American blues, a genre still relatively unknown to much of the British public. The musical affinity was instantaneous. Shortly afterwards, the two started playing together, forming the creative nucleus that would give rise to the Rolling Stones. The rest became history. The partnership between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards became one of the most lasting and successful in popular music, producing dozens of classics that influenced generations. The chance meeting at a train station would end up forever altering the course of world rock.