THE ROLLING STONES & THE MORGANS, 'AS TEARS GO BY'

Yesterday, The Morgans and The Grandma met The Rolling Stones, one of the best rock bands of all time, in Hyde Park. 

 

It was a fantastic meeting where they were able to talk about the origins of the band and their great songs, especially As Tears Go By one of the most beautiful songs ever written about childhood and memories of the past, wonderfully performed by Marianne Faithfull.

 

Today, the family has been reminiscing about yesterday's fantastic encounter before reviewing some English grammar with the Past Simple (Irregular Forms) and Had/Didn't have.

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The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. Active across seven decades, they are one of the most popular and enduring bands of the rock era.

In the early 1960s, the band pioneered the gritty, rhythmically driven sound that came to define hard rock. Their first stable line-up consisted of vocalist Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards, multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones, bassist Bill Wyman, and drummer Charlie Watts. During their early years, Jones was the primary leader of the band.

After Andrew Loog Oldham became the group's manager in 1963, he encouraged them to write their own songs. The Jagger-Richards partnership became the band's primary songwriting and creative force; this alienated Jones, who developed a drug addiction that by 1968 interfered with his ability to contribute meaningfully.

Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the Rolling Stones started out playing covers and were at the forefront of the British Invasion in 1964, becoming identified with the youthful counterculture of the 1960s. They then found greater success with their own material, as (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Get Off of My Cloud (both 1965), and Paint It Black (1966) became international number-one hits. Aftermath (1966), their first entirely original album, is often considered to be the most important of their early albums.

In 1967, they had the double-sided hit Ruby Tuesday/Let's Spend the Night Together and experimented with psychedelic rock on Their Satanic Majesties Request.

By the end of the 1960s, they had returned to their rhythm and blues-based rock sound, with hit singles Jumpin' Jack Flash (1968) and Honky Tonk Women (1969), and albums Beggars Banquet (1968), featuring Sympathy for the Devil and Street Fighting Man, and Let It Bleed (1969), featuring You Can't Always Get What You Want and Gimme Shelter.

Jones left the band shortly before his death in 1969, having been replaced by guitarist Mick Taylor. That year they were first introduced on stage as the greatest rock and roll band in the world.  

Sticky Fingers (1971), which yielded Brown Sugar and Wild Horses and included the first usage of their tongue and lips logo, was their first of eight consecutive number-one studio albums in the US. It was followed by Exile on Main St. (1972), featuring Tumbling Dice and Happy and Goats Head Soup (1973), featuring Angie.

Taylor left the band at the end of 1974, and was replaced by Ronnie Wood. The band released Some Girls in 1978, featuring Miss You, and Tattoo You in 1981, featuring Start Me Up.

Steel Wheels (1989) was widely considered a comeback album and was followed by Voodoo Lounge (1994). Both releases were promoted by large stadium and arena tours, as the Stones continued to be a huge concert attraction; by 2007 they had recorded the all-time highest-grossing concert tour three times, and they were the highest-earning live act of 2021.

Following Wyman's departure in 1993, the band continued as a four-piece core, with Darryl Jones becoming their regular bassist, and then as a three-piece core following Watts' death in 2021, with Steve Jordan becoming their regular drummer. Hackney Diamonds, the band's first new album of original material in 18 years, was released in October 2023, becoming their fourteenth UK number-one album.

The Rolling Stones' estimated record sales of 200 million make them one of the best-selling music artists of all time. They have won three Grammy Awards and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.  

They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004. 

Billboard and Rolling Stone have ranked them as one of the greatest artists of all time.

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Lose your dreams

and you might lose your mind.

Mick Jagger

MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL, THE OLDEST TEACHING ONE

Today, The Grangers and The Grandma have visited Mount Sinai Hospital because one of the members of the family has started to feel badly. During their staying, they have been preparing their Cambridge Exam. They have studied Had/Didn't have and the Reflexive Pronouns.

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Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is one of the oldest and largest teaching hospitals in the United States.

It is located in East Harlem in the New York City borough of Manhattan, on the eastern border of Central Park stretching along Madison and Fifth Avenues, between East 98th Street and East 103rd Street.

The entire Mount Sinai health system has over 7,400 physicians, as well as 3,815 beds, and delivers over 16,000 babies a year. In 2023, the hospital was ranked 23rd among over 2,300 hospitals in the world and the best hospital in New York state by Newsweek.

Adjacent to the hospital is the Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital which provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout the region.

At the time of the founding of the hospital in 1852, other hospitals in New York City discriminated against Jewish people both by not hiring them to treat patients, and by prohibiting them from being treated in the hospitals' wards.

Orthodox Jewish philanthropist Sampson Simson (1780-1857) founded the hospital to address the needs of New York City's rapidly growing Jewish immigrant community. 

It was the second Jewish hospital in the United States, after the Jewish Hospital, located in Cincinnati, Ohio, which was established in 1847.

The Jews' Hospital in the City of New York, as it was called until adopting its current name in 1866, was built on West 28th Street in Manhattan, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, on land donated by Simson. It opened two years before Simson's death. Four years later, it was unexpectedly filled to capacity with soldiers injured in the American Civil War.

The Jews' Hospital felt the effects of the escalating Civil War in other ways, as staff doctors and board members were called into service. Dr. Israel Moses served four years as lieutenant colonel in the 72nd New York Infantry Regiment; Joseph Seligman had to resign as a member of the board of directors, as he was increasingly called upon by President Lincoln for advice on the country's growing financial crisis.

The New York Draft Riots of 1863 also strained the hospital's resources, as it struggled to tend to the many wounded.

More and more, the Jews' Hospital was finding itself an integral part of the general community. In 1866, to reflect this new-found role, it changed its name.

In 1872, the hospital moved uptown to the east side of Lexington Avenue, between East 66th and East 67th Streets.

The hospital established a school of nursing in 1881. Created by Alma deLeon Hendricks and a small group of women, Mount Sinai Hospital Training School for Nurses was taken over by the hospital in 1895.

Mount Sinai has a number of hospital affiliates in the New York metropolitan area, including Brooklyn Hospital Center and an additional campus, Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens. The hospital is also affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, which opened in September 1968.

In 2013, Mount Sinai Hospital joined with Continuum Health Partners in the creation of the Mount Sinai Health System. The system encompasses the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and seven hospital campuses in the New York metropolitan area, as well as a large, regional ambulatory footprint.

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to change medicine; make lives better,
healthier, and longer;
and make care more accessible and equitable.
This is the Mount Sinai way.

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