[ti:Like a Rolling Stone] [ar:Faith Lapidus] [al:WORDS AND THEIR STORIES] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]go to 51voa.com for more... [00:10.32]Now, the VOA [00:13.26]Special English program [00:15.40]WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. [00:18.28]Today we explain [00:20.02]a very old saying [00:22.16]that has had a big influence [00:25.20]on rock-and-roll music. [00:27.40]That saying is a rolling stone [00:30.93]gathers no moss. [00:33.02]It has several meanings. [00:35.52]One meaning is that a person [00:38.51]who never settles down [00:40.60]in one place will not [00:42.69]be successful. [00:44.28]Another is that someone [00:46.67]who is always moving, [00:48.21]with no roots in one place, [00:51.15]avoids responsibilities. [00:53.88]This proverb was said [00:56.32]to be first used [00:57.87]in the fifteen hundreds. [00:59.81]But in the nineteen sixties, [01:02.39]the expression rolling stone [01:05.33]became famous in the world [01:07.32]of rock-and-roll music. [01:09.66]It became the name [01:11.50]of a rock group, [01:12.70]a song and a magazine. [01:15.68]Experts say it all started [01:18.47]with a song by the American singer [01:21.55]and guitarist Muddy Waters. [01:23.69]He was one of the country's [01:25.88]top blues musicians [01:27.92]until his death [01:29.17]in nineteen eighty-three. [01:31.11]His music influenced singers [01:33.85]like Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan. [01:37.43]In nineteen-fifty, [01:40.41]Muddy Waters recorded [01:42.06]a song called "Rollin' Stone." [01:44.89](MUSIC) [02:16.13]A British rock group is said [02:18.71]to have taken its name [02:19.92]from Muddy Waters' song. [02:22.11]The Rolling Stones performed [02:24.75]for the first time [02:26.69]in nineteen sixty-two. [02:28.53]The group's members called [02:31.07]themselves "the world's [02:32.81]greatest rock and roll band." [02:35.79]In nineteen sixty-five, [02:38.64]Bob Dylan released his song [02:41.58]"Like a Rolling Stone." [02:43.49]It is one of his best known [02:46.52]and most influential works. [02:48.97]It is an angry song about [02:52.60]a woman who was once [02:54.25]rich and successful. [02:56.40]But now she is on her own, [02:59.39]"with no direction home, [03:01.68]like a complete unknown, [03:04.42]like a rolling stone." [03:07.26](MUSIC) [03:56.92]In nineteen sixty-seven, [03:59.81]a young man named Jann Wenner [04:02.74]started a magazine he named [04:05.51]"Rolling Stone." [04:06.61]The magazine reported [04:08.85]on rock music [04:10.39]and the popular culture [04:12.48]that the music created. [04:14.87]By nineteen seventy-one, [04:17.36]"Rolling Stone" had become [04:19.79]the leading rock music [04:21.93]and counterculture publication. [04:24.47]It is still popular today. [04:27.16](MUSIC) [04:33.33]This VOA Special English program [04:35.97] was written by Shelley Gollust. [04:38.51]I'm Faith Lapidus. [04:40.60]You can find more [04:42.34]WORDS AND THEIR STORIES [04:44.08]at our website, 51voa.com.