rolling mill: see steel.

Rolling Stones, English rock music group that rose to prominence in the mid-1960s and continues to exert great influence. Members have included singer Mick Jagger (Michael Phillip Jagger), 1943-; guitarists Brian Jones (Lewis Brian Hopkin-Jones), 1944-69, Keith Richards or Richard 1943-, and Ron Wood (Ronald David Wood), 1941-; bassist Bill Wyman, 1941-, b. William George Perks, who left the band in 1993; and drummer Charlie Watts (Charles Robert Watts), 1941-. The group's songs, written mostly by Jagger and Richard, include "Satisfaction," "Sympathy for the Devil," and "Paint It Black." They have appeared widely in concert and in films, e.g., Gimme Shelter (1970), and have had successful solo careers.

Rolling Meadows, city (1990 pop. 22,591), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1955. There is research and development and the manufacture of office supplies and electronic components.

In technology, the main method of forming molten metals, glass, or other substances into shapes that are small in cross-section in comparison with their length, such as bars, sheets, rods, rails, and girders. Rolling is the most widely used method of shaping metals and is particularly important in the manufacture of steel. The process consists of passing the metal between pairs of rollers revolving at the same speed but in opposite directions and spaced so that the distance between them is slightly less than the thickness of the metal.

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