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It\u2019s not hard to see where Mick Jagger<\/a> got a lot of his moves from in the early days of The Rolling Stones.\u00a0<\/p>\n They may have looked like the antithesis to bands like The Beatles, but there\u2019s a lot more grit in Jagger\u2019s voice that seemed far more indebted to the likes of Muddy Waters than anything that Buddy Holly was singing in the 1950s. He was proud to be a bluesman at heart, but whenever he stepped out onstage, there was more than a little bit of soul in the way that he strutted across the stage.<\/p>\n Say what you want about the rivalry between the Fab Four and The Stones, but you weren\u2019t going to see Lennon or McCartney pulling off the kind of moves that Jagger could do. That may have been because he didn\u2019t play an instrument, but even when he had a guitar between him and the microphone, he was the textbook example of how anyone looking to play rock should interact with a crowd.<\/p>\n And if you ask any of the bands that came after Jagger, he was always the gold standard. No one was going to get to the top of the musical food chain by standing at the lip of the stage looking bored, and given how much he still puts into his performances today, he practically set one rule for every single frontman after him: If it didn\u2019t feel like you ran a marathon when you get offstage, you didn\u2019t give 100%.<\/p>\n Then again, you\u2019d have to wonder how much of Jagger\u2019s moves were inherited secondhand through Tina Turner<\/a>. Jagger could dance his ass off every time he was onstage, but Turner refused to take any prisoners from the minute she got onstage, almost being a lightning rod when she started singing tunes like \u2018Proud Mary\u2019. But there\u2019s a good chance \u2018The Queen of Rock and Roll\u2019 had to give props to the hardest working man in show business.<\/p>\n Elvis Presley had been the fixture of rock and roll in the 1950s, but when James Brown got onstage, nothing else mattered in the world. Some of the moves that he was doing at the time would have been difficult for most people to pull off today, and with the rest of the band playing in perfect time behind him, Brown practically had free reign to use the entire group as an instrument half the time, whether that was having them stop on a dime or drag out a song with a few chord stabs.<\/p>\n