>But it's a fact that the Stones invented almost everything we know >today about how rock stars are supposed to look and act.

So, we should ignore the "look" part, and just focus on...

>Before the Stones, rock & roll bands were generally well-scrubbed, >nicely groomed boys in matching jackets who smiled and gave the >thumbs-up in photos.

We're still on "look."

The Stones (or rather, Andrew Loog Oldham) were the first ones to come up with the concept of a group that was surly and antisocial. They wore mismatching clothes, they always looked like they had just rolled out of bed, they were rude and dirty and they reveled in ugliness and violence and destruction. THEY started all that shit.

"Surly and antisocial." Your position is that the Stones invented surly and antisocial?