Who Sang It: The Who or The Rolling Stones?

By: Becky

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About This Quiz

How well do you remember the songs of The Who and The Rolling Stones? Take this quiz to find out if you can match these 35 songs to the band that recorded them.

The Who and The Rolling Stones both made their marks back when music was great and bands partied hard (and worked even harder). Both iconic bands recorded their best songs back in the 1960s and 1970s, but their music remains popular today. Both bands continue to grace rock venues today, although The Rolling Stones retains more of its original members than The Who.

The Who first hit the rock scene in 1964 with founding members Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, and John Entwistle - all from London. Daltrey and Townshend were on lead vocals, Entwistle played bass guitar, and Keith Moon rounded out the quartet on drums.

The Stones formed in London in 1962. The original members included Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts and Ian Stewart. Ronnie Wood joined the band in 1975. The Rolling Stones continues to be one of the most popular and biggest grossing live bands of all time.

Think you know every song by The Who and The Rolling Stones? Take this quiz to find out just how many you actually remember.

We'll be fighting in the streets; With our children at our feet; And the morals that they worship will be gone

The Who
The Rolling Stones

Oh, a storm is threat'ning; My very life today; If I don't get some shelter; Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away

The Who
The Rolling Stones

I know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise; I know that you have 'cause there's magic in my eyes

The Who
The Rolling Stones

People try to put us d-down; Just because we get around; Things they do look awful c-c-cold; I hope I die before I get old

The Who
The Rolling Stones

When I'm drivin' in my car, and the man come on the radio; He's tellin' me more and more about some useless information; Supposed to fire my imagination

The Who
The Rolling Stones

Only love; Can make it rain; The way the beach is kissed by the sea

The Who
The Rolling Stones

Please allow me to introduce myself; I'm a man of wealth and taste; I've been around for a long, long year; Stole many a man's soul to waste

The Who
The Rolling Stones

Out here in the fields, I fight for my meals; I get my back into my living; I don't need to fight to prove I'm right; I don't need to be forgiven

The Who
The Rolling Stones

Welcome to the camp; I guess you all know why we're here; My name is Tommy; And I became aware this year

The Who
The Rolling Stones

I saw her today at the reception; A glass of wine in her hand; I knew she would meet her connection; At her feet was her footloose man

The Who
The Rolling Stones

No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue; I could not foresee this thing happening to you; If I look hard enough into the setting sun; My love will laugh with me before the morning comes

The Who
The Rolling Stones

The sun shines; And people forget; The spray flies as the speedboat glides; And people forget; Forget they're hiding

The Who
The Rolling Stones

No one knows what it's like; To be the bad man; To be the sad man

The Who
The Rolling Stones

Ever since I was a young boy; I've played the silver ball; From Soho down to Brighton; I must have played them all

The Who
The Rolling Stones

I was born in a cross-fire hurricane; And I howled at the morning driving rain; But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas

The Who
The Rolling Stones

I don't mind other guys dancing with my girl; That's fine, I know them all pretty well; But I know sometimes I must get out in the light; Better leave her behind with the kids, they're alright

The Who
The Rolling Stones

Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields; Sold in the market down in New Orleans; Scarred old slaver knows he's doin' all right; Hear him whip the women just around midnight

The Who
The Rolling Stones

If I told you what it takes; To reach the highest high; You'd laugh and say 'nothing's that simple'

The Who
The Rolling Stones

I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it (you can't have it); Thruppence and sixpence every day; Just to drive to my baby; Thruppence and sixpence each day; 'Cause I drive my baby every way

The Who
The Rolling Stones

Childhood living is easy to do; The things you wanted I bought them for you; Graceless lady you know who I am; You know I can't let you slide through my hands

The Who
The Rolling Stones

It's down to me; The difference in the clothes she wears; Down to me, the change has come; She's under my thumb

The Who
The Rolling Stones

I woke up in a Soho doorway; A policeman knew my name; He said you can go sleep at home tonight; If you can get up and walk away

The Who
The Rolling Stones

I call you on the telephone my voice too rough with cigarettes; I sometimes feel I should just go home; But I'm dealing with a memory that never forgets

The Who
The Rolling Stones

I met a gin-soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis; She tried to take me upstairs for a ride; She had to heave me right across shoulder; Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind

The Who
The Rolling Stones

If your child ain't all he should be now; This girl could put him right; I'll show him what he could be now; Just give me one night

The Who
The Rolling Stones

I live in an apartment on the ninety-ninth floor - of my block; And I sit at home looking out the window; Imagining the world has stopped

The Who
The Rolling Stones

She's sitting up in bed, shaking her head; At a copy of "True Confessions"; Oh it must seem like a fairy tale; To a woman of her profession

The Who
The Rolling Stones

Look, he's crawling up my wall; Black and hairy, very small; Now he's up above my head; Hanging by a little thread

The Who
The Rolling Stones

My, my, my, my; Don't you worry 'bout what's on your mind (oh my); I'm in no hurry I can take my time (oh my); I'm going red and my tongue's getting tied (tongues' getting tied)

The Who
The Rolling Stones

I'll tell ya; You can put me out; On the street; Put me out; With no shoes on my feet; But, put me out, put me out; Put me out of misery

The Who
The Rolling Stones

You can't always get it; When you really want it; You can't always get it at all

The Who
The Rolling Stones

You're the kind of person you meet at certain dismal dull affairs; Center of a crowd, talking much too loud running up and down the stairs.

The Who
The Rolling Stones

But was I all right? (was I all right?); Did I take you to the height of ecstasy; Was I all right? (was I all right?); Did a shadow of emotion cross your face

The Who
The Rolling Stones

She would never say where she came from; Yesterday don't matter if it's gone; While the sun is bright; Or in the darkest night; No one knows, she comes and goes

The Who
The Rolling Stones

Now you all were saying that you want to be free; But you'll come runnin' back (I said you would baby); You'll come runnin' back (like I told you so many times before); You'll come runnin' back to me.

The Who
The Rolling Stones

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