The Mammoth Book of the Rolling Stones

Author: Sean Egan
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1780336470
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422

Book Description
'The greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world!' This vainglorious introduction given to The Rolling Stones on stage by an excitable roadie was almost immediately accepted as a simple statement of fact. It was already evident that Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Co. were, as their first manager Andrew Loog Oldham had claimed, 'a way of life'. The Stones' defiance of convention made them the figureheads of a questioning new generation, and drove the Establishment to imprison them. This enduring rebel aura and the unmistakeable craft evident in classic records such as Satisfaction, Honky Tonk Women and Brown Sugar ensured subsequent generations of diehard fans, establishing the band as the biggest box office attraction the world has ever seen. The Mammoth Book of The Rolling Stones provides a comprehensive collection of reviews, analysis, interviews and exposés - both archive and contemporary, favourable and critical, concise and epic - of these extraordinary cultural icons as they pass the astonishing milestone of 50 years as rock's pre-eminent band.

The Mammoth Book of the Rolling Stones

Author: Sean Egan
Publisher: Robinson Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9781780336466
Category : Rock groups
Languages : en
Pages : 534

Book Description
As the legendary band celebrates their fiftieth anniversary, this comprehensive anthology acts as a commemoration to the Rolling Stones' legacy as one of the most transformative rock 'n' roll bands of all time. Fans of all ages will delight in reliving defining moments, as well as gaining new insight into the band's history of musical milestones.

According to the Rolling Stones

Author: Mick Jagger
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811840606
Category : Rock music
Languages : en
Pages : 382

Book Description
Here's the inside story: the history of the Rolling Stones - according to the Rolling Stones. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, and Ronnie Wood have come together for this remarkable project. They've also opened up their personal and band archives to include many rare and intimate images that are interwoven with the text. The book gets right to the heart of what makes the Stones the Stones, as musicians, songwriters, performers, and colleagues. They describe how their music has evolved and how it has affected and changed their lives. They also reveal, with refreshing frankness, how their own lives have helped, or hindered, their music-making. The Stones' own words - insightful, funny, poignant, surprising, and above all, completely authentic - are complemented by insider reflections from key players in their story over the years such as Ahmet Ertegun, David Bailey, and Cameron Crowe. A comprehensive reference section including discography, and chronology, studded with the Stones' personal comments on the music and memories, completes this must-read volume. Here, in their own words and images, is the life and work of a band which has played the soundtrack of our lives for the last forty years.

The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

Author: Stanley Booth
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613747837
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426

Book Description
"Stanley Booth's book is the only one I can read and say, 'Yeah, that's how it was.'" —Keith Richards Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones' inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool in 1968. He lived with them throughout their 1969 American tour, staying up all night together listening to blues, talking about music, ingesting drugs, and consorting with groupies. His thrilling account culminates with their final concert at Altamont Speedway—a nightmare of beating, stabbing, and killing that would signal the end of a generation's dreams of peace and freedom. But while this book renders in fine detail the entire history of the Stones, paying special attention to the tragedy of Brian Jones, it is about much more than a writer and a rock band. It has been called—by Harold Brodkey and Robert Stone, among others—the best book ever written about the sixties. In Booth's afterword, he explains why it took him 15 years to write the book, relating an astonishing story of drugs, jails, and disasters. Stanley Booth is the author of Rythm Oil: A Journey Through the Music of the American South and Keith: Till I Roll Over Dead. He has written for Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Playboy. He lives in Brunswick, Georgia.

The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones

Author: Rich Cohen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781472217998
Category : Rock groups
Languages : en
Pages : 373

Book Description
Rich Cohen enters the Stones epic as a young journalist on the road with the band and quickly falls under their sway - privy to the jokes, the camaraderie, the bitchiness, the hard living. Inspired by a lifelong appreciation of the music that borders on obsession, Cohen's chronicle of the band is informed by the rigorous views of a kid who grew up on the music and for whom the Stones will always be the greatest rock and roll band of all time

The Rolling Stones Book, Etc

Author: Rolling Stones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 31

Book Description

The Mammoth Book of Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll

Author: Jim Driver
Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 652

Book Description
With names like Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Keith Moon, Billie Holiday, Gram Parsons, the Rolling Stones, Madonna, Patsy Cline, the Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop, Snoop Dogg, Kiss, and Courtney Love, the cast of characters is as spectacular as their lifestyles were notorious. This rock 'n' roll reference is a roller-coaster of a read through the lives of musicians who have "been there and done that"--but not always lived to tell.

The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street

Author: Bill Janovitz
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826416735
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Explores the making of the Rolling Stones' album "Exile on Main Street" and also examines the technical and creative aspects of each individual recording.

The Rolling Stones

Author: Bent Rej
Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y. ; Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books
ISBN: 9781554072309
Category : Rock musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In the mid-'60s photographer Bent Rej had unique access to the Rolling Stonesand accompanied them on a European tour. This photo essay documents with rareand never-seen photos the Stone's first tastes of young fame.

Brian Jones

Author: Paul Trynka
Publisher: Viking Books
ISBN: 0670014745
Category : Guitarists
Languages : en
Pages : 381

Book Description
"First published in Great Britain as Sympathy for the Devil: the birth of the Rolling Stones and the death of Brian Jones, by Bantam Press"--Title page verso.