Keith Keith Richards and Mick Jagger met in Dartford. Picture: Mirrorpix

A lot has happened since they left Wentworth Primary School.

But rockers and former classmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards will no doubt spare a thought for the Dartford school where they first met.

The pair mark a milestone in their amazing rock ‘n’ roll journey today – 50 years since their first gig as the fresh-faced members of The Rolling Stones.

The show took place at the Marquee Club in London’s Oxford Street on July 12, 1962, with a very different line-up to the one playing across the world today.

Stepping out on stage with Jagger and Richards were slide guitarist Brian Jones, Ian Stewart on piano, Dick Taylor, another Dartford lad, on bass and drummer Mick Avory, later famously of the Kinks.

It was Taylor who originally formed a band with Jagger and Richards, later recruiting Brian Jones from Alexis Korner’s seminal London R&B band Blues Incorporated.

Jones, who would leave the band in 1969, troubled by drug use, and be found dead in his swimming pool less than a month later christened the band during a phone call to Jazz News.

According to Richards, when Jones was asked for the band’s name, he saw a Muddy Waters LP on the floor, on which one of the tracks was Rollin’ Stone.

During their first show they played Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley songs, inspired by Jagger and Richards’ love of the two electric guitar pioneers.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards met at Dartford's Wentworth Primary

Shortly afterwards Taylor would leave the band – eventually forming the Pretty Things – and he was replaced by bassist Bill Wyman.

Mick Avory also left soon afterwards and the band experimented with drummer Tony Chapman before finally persuading current sticksman Charlie Watts, then of Blues Incorporated, to join in January 1963.

Ian Stewart, who played piano at their first gig, was forced out of the band by their manager Andrew Loog Oldham in May 1963 but remained as the band’s road manager and session pianist.

He performed on every Stones album until his death in 1985, aged 47, and was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the band in 1989.

Later members were guitarist Mick Taylor from 1969 to 1974 before The Faces’ Ronnie Wood joined in 1976, completing the four members of the band now recognised as the Rolling Stones.