It's only rock 'n' roll ...until someone starts counting.From the moment they burst onto the music scene, the Rolling Stones embraced a reputation as rock 'n' roll's ultimate bad boys, cultivating an aura of rebellion and danger that captivated fans and shocked critics.
Their music pushed boundaries — and so did their love lives.In "The Rolling Stones: The Biography," Bob Spitz chronicles the band's decades-long career, arguing that Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and their bandmates became as famous for their offstage excesses as for their sold-out arenas and chart-topping hits.RINGO STARR REVEALS THE ONE HUMBLE RITUAL THE BEATLES REFUSED TO QUIT EVEN AT THE HEIGHT OF FAMEThe Rolling Stones pose for a portrait in 1964.From left: Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts.
(Michael Ochs Archives)"The Stones have always been known for their offstage behavior," Spitz told Fox News Digital."They got together at one point — when they were older men — Bill Wyman, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger — to decide how many women they had slept with over the years.
A shocking number.""The Rolling Stones: The Biography" by Bob Spitz is available now.(Penguin Press)"Bill stopped counting at about 1,800," Spitz claimed.
"He had kept a journal with the name of every woman he had spent the night with.Mick thought his total was in the hundreds.
Keith counted four on his fingers.So, when you look at them as a promiscuous band, you have to put things into perspective.
Keith, who was the baddest of bad boys, turned out to be the most romantic of the Stones."The tally challenged one of rock's longest-running assumptions: that the band's most notorious outlaw was also its biggest womanizer.WATCH: HOW THE ROLLING STONES BECAME ROCKS ULTIMATE BAD BOYSFox News Digital reached out to a spokesperson for the Rolling Stones for comment.Richards has never publicly put a number on his sexual partners.In interviews and in his memoir "Life," he has instead focused...