Their Satanic Majesties Request…The Crown creators to recreate the sex, drugs and rock and roll early years of the Rolling Stones for new tv drama
The creators of The Crown are lining up a new series about the early years and 1960s rock-n-roll heyday of the Rolling Stones, it has emerged.
Mick Jagger and his fellow rockers have given the green light for their music to be used in the drama, according to Deadline, opening the door for albums such as Let It Bleed and Their Satanic Majesties Request to feature in the show.
Left Bank Pictures, the British production company behind The Crown, is believed to have recruited Fever Pitch author Nick Hornby as a writer for the new show.
Two seasons are thought to be in the works, focusing on the band's origins and their story through to 1972, a period which includes the death of Brian Jones in 1969.
Rolling Stones gave permission for their music to be used in the new series about their the start of their band and their rise to fame
The story of the Stones has previously been told in documentaries including Gimme Shelter, about the tragic 1969 Altamont concert which turned into a deadly brawl between fans and Hell's Angels security guards.
The 2012 documentary Crossfire Hurricane, made by Brett Morgen, charted the band's meteoric rise to fame and fortune following their debut in London in 1962.
Martin Scorsese made the 2008 concert movie Shine A Light, co-produced by Steve Bing and featuring a cameo appearance from former president Bill Clinton.
And the intimate 1968 Jean-Luc Godard film Sympathy for the Devil shows how the song of the same name came into being during the band's heyday.
Now, the drama series is set to be added to the list - although the title has not yet been revealed, nor who will play the famous stars.
Mick Jagger was previously the co-creator, along with Martin Scorsese, of the HBO series Vinyl about the music industry in the 1970s.
The series will be produced by the creators of The Crown (pictured), Left Bank Pictures, and will focus on the period from the band's origin until 1972
The series starred Bobby Cannavale as a troubled record executive and also featured Ray Romano, Olivia Wilde and Jagger’s son, James Jagger.
However, it received middling reviews and was cancelled by HBO after only one season in 2016.
Left Bank Pictures was also behind the acclaimed UK series Quiz, which told the story of the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire cheating scandal in the early 2000s and Starz' Outlander.
Mick Jagger, 77, and Keith Richards, 76, co-founded the Rolling Stones in London in 1962 - providing an alternative to the popular pop rock sound of the 1960s.
The pair had been school friends when they met at school in Dartford Kent, in 1950, but we seperated when Jagger's family moved to Wilmington.
The Rolling Stones (pictured in 1969) were formed in London in 1962 - holding their first performance at the Marquee Club in July of that year
They met again in 1961 on platform two of Dartford station and began playing together again before their first gig as 'The Rollin' Stones' at the Marquee Club in London in July 1962 and soon after changed the name to The Rolling Stones.
The band continued to gig, heading out on their first tour singing covers of hits by their blues heroes, with Brian Jones, who died in 1969, describing it as: 'Basically we just play bad Chuck Berry.’
After attempts to mold the band into another version of the Beatles, their record label instead opted to embrace their differences - allowing them to wear unmatched clothing and long hair.
The group's popularity sky-rocketed and they soon became synonymous with drug-taking, sexual debauchery and bitter feuding.
Since their formation, the band has enjoyed a wealth of successes, including 13 chart-topping albums - the same number as Elvis Presley and Robbie Williams. Pictured: Lead singer Mick Jagger
In particular, by the time their 10th studio album, Beggars Banquet, was released Jones's involvement in the band was intermittent as result of his drug abuse.
He left the band on July 3, 1969, and died less than a month later in the swimming pool at his home in Hartfield, East Sussex.
Over the years the band has scored 13 UK chart-topping albums, the same number as Elvis Presley and Robbie Williams, according to the Official Charts Company.
And only The Beatles have managed more with 15.
They are also the first band to top UK charts in six different decades after scoring a Number 1 with revamped Goat's Head Soup album earlier this year.
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