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.
For the first time in paperback—and in a great reading edition—here is the real story of the Rolling Stones as told by the Stones themselves. In their own words Mick Jagger Keith Richards Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood get right to the heart of what makes the Stones the Stones as musicians songwriters and performers describing how their music has evolved and revealing frankly how their own lives have helped or hindered their music-making. The Stones' own stories are complemented by insider reflections from key players in their story over the years. Also included are 64 pages of vintage photographs. "For fans here's proof that you can sometimes get what you want." (People)
For the first time in paperback—and in a great reading edition—here is the real story of the Rolling Stones as told by the Stones themselves. In their own words Mick Jagger Keith Richards Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood get right to the heart of what makes the Stones the Stones as musicians songwriters and performers describing how their music has evolved and revealing frankly how their own lives have helped or hindered their music-making. The Stones' own stories are complemented by insider reflections from key players in their story over the years. Also included are 64 pages of vintage photographs. "For fans here's proof that you can sometimes get what you want." (People)
