This book has won acclaim nationwide as a masterpiece not only of rock journalism but of harrowing social history as well. Onstage and off, the Stones are portrayed up-close and the music, talk, drugs and sex are all captured in detail.[...]
Behold the Rolling Stones: run-ins with the law, chart-topping successes, and now the World's Greatest Continually Operating Rock and Roll Band. "50 Licks "tells the story of the Stones, right from its very origins.On July 12, 1962, London's Marquee Club debuted a new act, a blues-inflected rock ban[...]
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 tour across the United States, staying up all night together listening to blues, talking about music, ingesting [...]
Mick Jagger, lead singer of the Rolling Stones, once famously said that he'd "e;rather be dead than sing "e;Satisfaction"e; when (he's) forty-five."e; However, Jagger will turn sixty-nine years old this year, the same year the Rolling Stones are celebrating their fiftieth anniversary[...]
The Rolling Stones' story has been written numerous times throughout the decades. "Stones Gear" is also the story of the "Rolling Stones", but with a new twist: their history as told through what instruments were used during their recording sessions and tour dates. This book covers not only the grou[...]
When the Rolling Stones hit the scene in the 60's, it was to play rhythm & blues, nothing more. They werefar from imagining that they would change music, let alone become the mouthpiece of a changing world. Sticking their tongue out at the establishment with their brilliant music and hard-hitting ly[...]
A collection of writing in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of 'the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world', from John Pidgeon's first encounter with The Rolling Stones at the The Ricky Tick Club in 1963 and Norman Jopling's seminal article in "New Record Mirror" that same ye[...]
The Rolling Stones documents the extraordinary career of the band decade by decade, album by album and member by member, accompanied by 130 images and 30 items of fascinating memorabilia reproduced on the page. How many bands have rocked the world solidly for 50 years? Played in front of 1,500,000 p[...]
Tony Sanchez worked for Keith Richards for eight years buying drugs, running errands and orchestrating cheap thrills. He records unforgettable accounts of the Stones' perilous misadventures racing cars along the Cote d'Azur; murder at Altamont; nights with the Beatles at the Stones-owned nightclub V[...]
The Rolling Stones have long established themselves as living legends: still touring and recording they have survived departures and illness to remain one of the world's most popular bands, always topping best band or best album ever polls. Organised by year, this brilliant new book covers all the m[...]
Throughout the late 1960s and 1970s, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote and recorded at a pace that most of today's young bands would consider unimaginable. And although there have been numerous books and articles written about the Rolling Stones, none has systematically analysed their music and e[...]
The Rolling Stones were around when the Beatles were topping the charts throughout the 1960s, they survived metal's and then punk's popularity in the 1970s and 1980s and they kept on rockin' through the turn of the century. "Treasures of the Rolling Stones", an unofficial publication, tells the stor[...]
The definitive story of the most controversial and longest-surviving band in music historyIn order to accurately chronicle the human drama at the center of the Rolling Stones story, the author of this book has carried out interviews with band members; close family members, including Mick's parents; [...]
The definitive, updated guide to the band's studio activityBringing the story up to date, this updated edition features every recording session and significant live recording listed in chronological order. Each song features a full commentary and provides information not only on the recording listed[...]
Ladies and gentlemen...the Rolling Stones! This is the definitive, authorized illustrated history of the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band. The kind of fame and success the Rolling Stones have achieved in their 50-year career is completely without parallel; their most famous riffs and catchiest ly[...]
Boka gir deg et innblikk i livet og karrieren til The Rolling Stones fra 60- tallet og fram til i dag. Den inneholder blant annet tidligere upubliserte bilder og brev, og dekker viktige moment i bandets liv, alt fra arrestasjoner til solokarrierer. Har register.[...]
Den officielle bog til fejring af 50-års jubilæet for Rolling Stones.
Den 12. juli 1962 gik Rolling Stones på scenen for allerførste gang. I de 50 år, der er forløbet siden da, har de utallige gange sat alverdens scener på den anden ende. Som verdens største rockba[...]
In 1978 two of Joseph Szabo's high school students invited him to join them at a Rolling Stones concert at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. Sensing a promising photo opportunity, Szabo agreed, packing three 35mm cameras and plenty of black-and-white film. Some 90,000 Rolling Stones fans converged on the[...]