Referenced By / The Rolling Stones (Band)

aka: The Rolling Stones

A depiction of Jagger that's so cold, like a tombstone.

As one of the longest running rock bands in history The Rolling Stones have had their fair share of shout-outs in popular culture.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• Used in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure with Stand names and powers:
  • In Stardust Crusaders, one of Muhammad Avdol's attacks with Magician's Red is called "Crossfire Hurricane", referencing the first line of "Jumpin' Jack Flash".
  • In Golden Wind, Bruno Bucciarati's Stand is called Sticky Fingers, and Scolippi's Stand is outright named Rolling Stones. Sticky Fingers in particular has the power to create zippers on any surface, alluding to the fact that the album cover for Sticky Fingers has a functional zipper on it.
  • In Stone Ocean, Lang Rangler's Stand is called Jumpin' Jack Flash.
  • In Steel Ball Run, the Stand shared by the Eleven Men is called Tatoo You! (with the exclamation mark). The fact that the Stand is shared by eleven people references the number of tracks on the original release of the album.

Comic Books

• La Ribambelle: The Amazonian tribe the children encounter in one of their stories are caricatures of the Stones, complete with long black hair and gibberish that consists of phrases and expressions from their songs, including Yeah!
• Gotlib once spoofed the album cover of Sticky Fingers with his character Hamster Jovial.
• Zits: Walt gets angry at a song Jeremy is listening to, resulting in this exchange,
  Walt: Did I hear what I think I just heard?!
  Jeremy: Dad, it's just a song lyric.
  Walt: Don't give me that! I'm sick of this new music that's nothing but drugs and sex!
  Jeremy: You mean like, "Lay Lady Lay", "Lucy in the Sky", "Purple Haze", "Brown Sugar"?
  Walt: Hey, that's different! Those are classics!
  Connie: Ouch. Score one for the teenager.

Film — Live-Action

• Apocalypse Now: During their mission the younger recrutes suddenly hear "Satisfaction" from Out of Our Heads on their transistor radio and start dancing along to it.
• Almost Famous, set in the 1970s, has the band's road manager tell the group to think about their future: "If you think Mick Jagger will be out there trying to be a rock star at age 50, you are sadly, sadly mistaken."
• Both Full Metal Jacket and The Devil's Advocate end with "Paint It, Black" from Aftermath (Album) as their closing song.
• In Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Keith Richards plays Jack Sparrow's pirate father, which is a special in-joke because Depp has acknowledged that he got his inspiration for Jack Sparrow from Richards. As an extra joke Richards is also seen playing a guitar in the scene.
• "You Got Me Rocking" from Voodoo Lounge was used in The Replacements (2000).
• "Gimme Shelter" from Let It Bleed was used in at least three Martin Scorsese films: Goodfellas, Casino and The Departed.
  • "Jumpin' Jack Flash" is used in Mean Streets when Johnny Boy enters the club.
  • Also in The Departed, when Billy sends a CD to Colin that proves he knows Colin is The Mole within the police department, and Madolyn pulls it out, the cover on the CD case is that of Exile on Main St..
• "You Can't Always Get What You Want" was used in The Big Chill (1983) during the opening funeral scene. In High Fidelity (2000) the song is also mentioned as part of a "Top 5" list of death songs, but immediately disqualified because it was used in "The Big Chill".
• In Good Morning, Vietnam, when Adrien Cronauer (Robin Williams) encounters a group of soldiers, he asks them what kind of music they like; when one of them mentions the Stones, he does a brief Mick Jagger impression.
• In Raw Deal (1986), Arnie blasts "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" from his car as he drives around shooting bad guys at a construction site.
• Knives Out uses "Sweet Virginia" from Exile on Main St. as background music for its final scene and the first part of its closing credits.
• In The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, one of Wilma's suitors is a rockstar called Mick Jagged, an obvious reference/parody of Jagger.
• In A Bigger Splash (the English-language remake of La Piscine), Harry (Ralph Fiennes), a record producer, apparently worked with the band, and dances and sings along to "Emotional Rescue" at one point.
• In Aloha, Bobby and Rose, the protagonists drive past a Rolling Stones billboard.
• In One-Trick Pony, a record executive says that the Rolling Stones are possibly the only band to successfully combine music and spectacle.
• Mrs. Doubtfire: In one scene, as Daniel Hillard watches a boring edutainment show, he says that the host "makes Mister Rogers look like Mick Jagger".
• The pre-titles scene of Spider-Man: Homecoming introducing The Vulture and his gang prominently features "Can't You Hear Me Knocking".
• The World's End: Gary claims his friends have all sold out in getting jobs and having families, and justifies his life of being drunk all the time by quoting from "I'm Free" ("I'm free to do what I want at any old time").
• Bottle Rocket: Dignan's rescue of Applejack and subsequent pursuit by the police, which is intercut by Mr. Henry robbing Bob and Future Man's home, are accompanied by "2000 Man".
• Dirty Work: Jimmy the crazy bus driver (Chris Farley) tries to liven up an impending Bar Brawl by playing the Rolling Stones' "Street Fighting Man" on the jukebox. However, in his excitement, he inadvertently picks Rupert Holmes's "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)", instead.
• Night Shift: When Bill first comes to work at the morgue, he's singing the riff to "Jumpin' Jack Flash". Later, when Bill's driving Chuck around, he plays the live version of the song on his car stereo.

Literature

• In Stephen King's Rage (1977) "Hot Stuff" from Black and Blue is played at a party.
  • Also in a Richard Bachman novel, Roadwork, Bart Dawes buys Let It Bleed after hearing it at a party, and "You Can't Always Get What You Want" is played during the final confrontation.
• In King's Dreamcatcher, "Sympathy for the Devil" appears as the Blue Group's "Squad Anthem", and it becomes an earworm Henry really grows to hate.
• Ian Rankin's story collection "Beggars Banquet" is a shout-out to Beggars Banquet.
• In Soul Music, the band led by Crash, which is a parody of all "harder" rock music (in contrast with The Band With Rocks In's classic rock'n'roll) is discussing the fact they keep changing their name because somewhere is the perfect one, and Crash comments that a rolling stone gathers no moss. They don't pick up on it.
• In Carl Hiaasen's first solo novel, Tourist Season, when the head bad guy (along with his compatriots) crashes the Orange Bowl halftime show, he naturally introduces himself to the crowd by saying, "Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste."
• In If I Fall, If I Die, Diane remembers Arthur singing "Factory Girl" to her, complete with a Jagger fish-mouth.
• In Clade, Adam used to be a Rolling Stones fan when he was in university. He remembers driving around while listening to "Gimme Shelter."
• Adam from Are You Alone on Purpose? loves the Rolling Stones and listens to Some Girls on his CD player.
• In one of the Animorphs books, Ax credits a wise human by the name of "Rolling Stone" with making the profound observation that, while you can't always get what you want, sometimes you can get what you need.
• In Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, Gabe and John argue about whether Face Dances or Emotional Rescue is the lamest sellout album.
• In Alien in a Small Town, after the alien Paul fails at his mating ritual, he mutters, "As your old songsmith said, I can’t get no satisfaction." His friend Indira responds, "But you tried. You tried. Oh how you tried."

Live-Action TV

• Birds of a Feather: "Cheat!" involved Sharon selling bootleg shirts with the band's logo.
• Classic Albums: One episode was devoted to Beggars Banquet.
• In the Getting Together episode "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do," Bobby invites Jenny to meet the Stones with him. Jenny excitedly asks, "The Rolling Stones?" Bobby answers, "No, it's a new group called the Sticks and Stones, but they're supposed to be pretty big."
• Legion: "She's a Rainbow" is used as a Love Theme for two couples: David Haller & Sydney Barrett, and Charles Xavier & his girlfriend/wife Gabrielle.
• Mad Men:
  • In the fourth season episode "The Summer Man", after Don leaves the New York Athletic Club (where he works out by swimming), and as he's standing outside watching people walking on the street, we hear "(I can't get No) Satisfaction".
  • In the fifth season episode "Tea Leaves", Don and Harry, at the behest of Heinz Baked Beans, go backstage to a concert to see if they can get the band to agree to endorse the company for an ad. They don't end up meeting the band at all (Harry meets who he thinks is the Stones, but it turns out to be another band entirely).
• On Saturday Night Live, Gilda Radner's Candy Slice was a Stones devotee like the real Patti Smith. Best demonstrated in her song "Gimme Mick".
  You Mick Jagger have the greatest rock 'n roll band in the history of rock n' roll
  And you don't even play an instrument yourself!
• Sesame Street: The band was spoofed as "The Cobble Stones" and sang "(I Can't Get No) Cooperation". Mostly a parody of "Satisfaction" as you would guess from the title, it manages to work in a flute solo directly lifted from "Ruby Tuesday".
• In the Shadowhunters episode "The Descent Into Hell Isn't Easy", Simon refers to Jace as a Mick Jagger-looking guy.
• Spitting Image: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were both made into puppets.
• The Stones are the band with the most songs providing titles for Supernatural episodes, edging out Led Zeppelin.
• That '70s Show: For the show's 7th season, all the episode titles are derived from Stones songs.
• House frequently quotes "You Can't Always Get What You Want".
• "Paint It Black" from Aftermath (Album) was used a the theme music of Tour of Duty.
• The pilot episode of Westworld features an epic rendition of "Paint It Black" performed by a symphony orchestra, used to score a bloody saloon robbery.
• A Wizards of Waverly Place episode was titled "You Can't Always Get What You Carpet".

Music

• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: On the cover of this The Beatles album a doll can be seen, wearing a sweater with the line "Welcome the Rolling Stones" on the front. The Stones returned the favour by hiding pictures of the Beatles' faces on the Their Satanic Majesties Request cover, with the message "Welcome the Beatles".
  • "And Your Bird Can Sing" from Revolver has been interpreted as a dig at Mick Jagger's girlfriend, Marianne Faithfull.
• In the album cover art of Frank Zappa's We're Only in It for the Money (1968), inside the booklet, a text balloon has Zappa say: "Between the buttons!" This is a reference to the Stones album Between the Buttons, which Zappa even deemed superior to Sgt. Peppers.
• The song "All The Young Dudes", written by David Bowie for Mott the Hoople, has the line: "My brother's back at home with his Beatles & His Stones."
• Marilyn Manson's song "Sympathy For The Parents" from Smells Like Children is a shout-out to "Sympathy For The Devil" from Beggars Banquet.
• The Blur song "Trailer Park" has the line "I lost my girl to the Rolling Stones".
• The song "Beatles and the Stones" by The House Of Love mentions the Rolling Stones alongside the Beatles.
• The Clash: Their song "1977" namedrops the band.
  Danger stranger
  You better paint your face
  No Elvis, Beatles, or the Rolling Stones
  In 1977
• "Trash" by Robyn Hitchcock:
  You wish you could be Charlie Watts
  doesn't mean to say you're not...
  ...and you wish you could be Brian Jones
  now he's just a heap of bones
  that's one better than you
• "Blame It On The Stones" by Kris Kristofferson.
• Michel Delpech's "Quand j' étais chanteur" has the line: "J' ai appris que Mick Jagger était mort dernièrement" ("I was told that Mick Jagger recently passed away").
• Peter Sarstedt's "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)" has the line: "You live in a fancy apartment, of the Boulevard Saint-Michel/ where you keep your Rolling Stones records."
• Captain Beefheart's "Beatle Bones 'N' Smokin' Stones" from Strictly Personal
• The Residents: On The Third Reich 'n Roll a heavily distorted version of The Beatles' "Hey Jude" is intertwined with the woo hoo chorus from The Stones' "Sympathy For The Devil".
• Gorillaz: Murdoch was partly inspired by Keith Richards' persona.
• The title of the Metric song "Gimme Sympathy" references both "Gimme Shelter" and "Sympathy for the Devil". In addition the chorus asks "Who would you rather be? The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?"
• The American neo-psychedelic band The Brian Jonestown Massacre (yes, they are indeed partially named after Brian Jones) called their fourth album Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request from 1996.
• "Borrowed Tune" from Neil Young's "Tonight's The Night" (1975) uses the same melody as "Lady Jane", which is lampshaded by him in the song:
  I'm singin' this borrowed tune
  I took from the Rolling Stones
  Alone in this empty room
  Too wasted to write my own
• Tom Waits: On his album Bad As Me during the track "Satisfied" Keith Richards, who plays guitar during the track, receives a shoutout. The song title also brings up associations with The Rolling Stones' song "Satisfaction" from Out of Our Heads.
  Now Mr. Jagger and Mr. Richards
  I will scratch where I've been itching.
• The British record label Beggars Banquet Records takes its name from the Beggars Banquet album.
• Bob Segarini recorded a song, "I Like the Beatles And My Baby Loves The Rolling Stones". It references songs by both bands, including "I Wanna be Your Man", which The Beatles gave to the Rolling Stones, as well as recording their own version.
• Oasis opens their video for "The Shock of the Lightning" with an imitation of the Hot Rocks cover.
• The Blues Traveler song "Regarding Steven", which is literally A Chat with Satan, opens with a reference to the recurring line "Hope you guess my name!" from "Sympathy for the Devil":
  "Well, I've guessed your name and I'm sure you know mine..."

Video Games

• In Hotel Mario, Marc Graue improvised Mario saying "Hey, you! Get offa my cloud!"
• The fifth area in Sonic Battle is named Gimme Shelter.

Western Animation

• The Loud House:
  • Luna's idol, Mick Swagger, is clearly based on Jagger. Although Swagger is implied to be a full-time solo artist with a mere backup band (unlike Jagger's side solo career), Luna quotes plenty of lines from actual Stones songs throughout the show, especially in its earlier seasons.
  • A version of the Stones' tongue and lips logo serves as the signature icon of the KISS expy SMOOCH.
• The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show included an episode where Pebbles meets and spends some time with Mick Jadestone, singer of the Rolling Boulders.
• Pinky and the Brain:
  • In "The Megalomaniacal Adventures of Brainie the Poo", their parody of Winnie the Pooh, the Tigger parody is called "Jagger", and as the name implies, he's modeled after Mick Jagger. When he's introduced pouncing on Brain, Pinky yells "Hey, you, get off of my smog!", to which Jagger says "Sorry, mate, no requests.", and he does an introductory song and dance about how old he is.
  • There's also this exchange from "The Mummy":
    Brain: Ancient mummies will soon walk the earth!
    Pinky: The Rolling Stones are touring again, are they?
• The Simpsons:
  • When Bart arrives in Hell in "Bart Gets Hit By A Car", Satan introduces himself to him with the words: "Pleased to meet you", a shout-out to the refrain from The Stones' "Sympathy For The Devil" from Beggars Banquet.
  • In "Rosebud", after hearing The Ramones play, Mr. Burns tells Smithers to have The Rolling Stones killed.
  • In "Lisa's Wedding", set in the future, a poster can be seen in Lisa's room with the text "The Rolling Stones Steel Wheelchair Tour", a pun on their Steel Wheels tour. Believe it or not, this is actually meant to be a joke about how they would never have a reunion.
  • When Ned Flanders is under influence of peyote in "D'oh-in' in the Wind" he sees Melody, Verse and Rich Uncle Skeleton (The Grateful Dead) and the marching hammers from Pink Floyd's The Wall march in front of him, suddenly turned into the Lips & Tongue logo of the Rolling Stones, telling him to "Pucker up, Ned".
  • The title of the episode "Brother's Little Helper" is a pun on the song "Mother's Little Helper". The title of "You Kent Always Say What You Want" spoofs "You Can't Always Get What You Want".
  • Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were "special guest voice" in "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation". In the episode, Jagger self parodies his way of dancing on stage. Also, when Homer finds out that rock 'n' roll camp is over, Jagger tries to cheer him up by saying: "It's only rock 'n' roll camp", to which Homer moans: "But I like it!", in reference to the song It's Only Rock 'N' Roll (But I Like It). The episode also uses "Start Me Up" (Tattoo You) and "She's So Cold" (Emotional Rescue)
• Trolls: TrollsTopia: In "Girls' Night", Demo shows Val a broken guitar pick to explain how Rock Trolls get attached to certain picks. He refers to said broken pick as "Pick Jagger", a pun on Mick Jagger's name.

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