The Rolling Stones: All Number 1 Songs Ranked Worst To Best

12. Little Red Rooster

UK #1, did not chart US, 1964

The Rolling Stones were greatly inspired by a variety of recording artists from Chicago, and even took their name from a Muddy Waters song. Little Red Rooster, their 2nd UK #1, was a cover version of a Howlin' Wolf track, and remains the only blues song to ever top the British charts. Albeit a favourite of the band's, and a tune that original drummer Brian Jones claimed to have diminished his guilt over 'selling out,' Little Red Rooster remains one of their most forgettable hits, a curious little sidestep for a band that was still finding its voice.

Although it lacks the immediate irreverence of their later work, it was still banned by US radios for being too sexually suggestive... even if a Sam Cooke version had become a crossover hit in America just the year before.

Fun Fact: What is a little red rooster anyway? You may get there faster if you replace 'rooster' with a synonym. Got it? Good.