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Rolling Stone (The band, the mag, the song, the expression?)

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RallyMonkey:
This has been bugging me since I watched Almost Famous a few weeks ago.

In my youth, I always thought that Rolling Stone magazine was named after The Rolling Stones. Don't ask me why. It just seemed logical. Yet, then I realized Rolling Stone was probably around near the beginning of The Rolling Stones (I may very well be wrong).

Thus, I ask you. Are the names related in any way? Or possibly related to Like a Rolling Stone? (Which very well may have been recorded long after both, I'm not up to date on my Bob Dylan.) Or did all three groups just somehow stumble upon the expression and decide that they wanted to name things after them?

(UPDATE: Wikipedia tells me the chronology goes The Rolling Stones, Like A Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone. Yet, still, are they related in any way?)

Kai:
I'm pretty sure it was taken from "Like a Rolling Stone". I could certainly be wrong though.

!!!CPAOI!!!:
I always figured it came from the expression.  Moss doesn't grow on a rolling stone you know (although I think the magazine has disproved the old adage).

Johnny C:
I think I'll give this thread three stars.

Joseph:
I remember in an old Rolling Stone, I think it was the 500 Greatest Songs issues, there was some writing about the Muddy Water's song, and it was mentioned how the Rolling Stones took their name from it, as did the magazine.  I'm fairly sure that's what it said, anyhow.

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