Long live Rolling Stones! (Video)

The legendary band marks 50 years today.

On 12 July 1962 the Rolling Stones went on stage for the first time at the Marquee Club in London’s Oxford Street. A phenomenal 50 years later, and to celebrate this milestone, a free photographic exhibition documenting the last half-century will occupy the East Wing Galleries, looking back at their astounding career.

With privileged access to a wealth of unseen and rare material, this one-off exhibition will include over seventy prints ranging from reportage photography, live concert and studio session images, to contact sheets, negative strips and outtakes from every period of the band’s history – from performing in the smallest blues clubs to the biggest stadium tours of all time.

"This is our story of fifty fantastic years. We started out as a blues band playing the clubs and more recently we’ve filled the largest stadiums in the world with the kind of show that none of us could have imagined all those years ago. Curated by us, it features the very best photographs and ephemera from and beyond our archives," - said Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood.

The Rolling Stones leader also pledges to support the Belarusian musicians and fight for democracy in Belarus.

Mick Jagger taped a video appeal to the Belarusians, saying that our country should be free and that the freedom of speech and democracy should prevail. The musician ended his video appeal, saying in Belarusian: "Long Live Belarus!"