Keith Richards: Biografía desautorizada (Memorias) (Spanish Edition) - Hardcover

Bockris, Victor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8496879429 ISBN 13: 9788496879423

Publisher: Global Rhythm Press, 2009

Synopsis

The various clouds cast by the grandeur of Keith Richards’s legendary status are finally dissipated in this book: his drug use, his coalition with Mick Jagger, his conspiracies with characters such as Dylan, Lennon, Clapton, McCartney, Marley, Berry, and Bowie, his sexual escapades and his two persistent lovers (Anita Pallenberg and Patti Hansen), his strenuous recording sessions, and his peaceful country life in a mansion in Connecticut.

 

Aquí se disipan varias nieblas y se presentan finalmente los hechos que el foco de la leyenda de Keith Richards había nublado: su uso de narcóticos, su coalición con Mick Jagger, sus contubernios con personajes como Dylan, Lennon, Clapton, McCartney, Marley, Berry y Bowie, sus amoríos pasajeros y sus dos amores contumaces (Anita Pallenberg y Patti Hansen), sus extenuantes sesiones de grabación, y su apacible vida rural en una mansión de Connecticut.

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About the Author

Victor Bockris is the author of many biographies about writers, artists, and musicians such as Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, John Cale, Patti Smith, Muhammad Ali and Bebe Buell.

From Kirkus Reviews

A gushing Keith Richards fanzine and high-bias Rolling Stones history. Richards, Bockris tells us, was the son of a dour working- class father who told his son to ``stop that noise'' and a doting mother who listened to Keith practice in the kitchen for hours. In 1962, Richards joined the newly formed Rolling Stones; he was touring by 1963. Here, Bockris (The Life and Death of Andy Warhol, 1989, etc.) details--mainly through interviews with Richards--the guitar player's studio work, live performances, and personal life, as well as a chronicle of the band that was formed by Brian Jones. To Bockris, Jones is a virtual nonperson, and Richards--whose considerable talent as a songwriter peaked out, by his own estimation, in 1973--is the band's single, irreplaceable driving force. (By contrast, Stones bassist Bill Wyman says in Stone Alone [1990] that ``Brian was the inventor and inspiration of the Rolling Stones'' and that Richards ``screwed up the band with his drug problems for about ten years.'') Much of the portrait here is a depressingly familiar canvas of addiction and denial, with Richards repeatedly arrested, burning down numerous estate houses by nodding off with lighted cigarettes, methodically punching out his common- law wife, Anita Pallenberg, in front of their children, delaying concerts and recording sessions for hours and days while in a stupor or trying to obtain drugs. But Bockris quotes Richards as saying, ``I've never had a problem with drugs--I've had problems with police.'' And Bockris finds it all romantic: ``The drugs helped Richards understand he was living in the midst of a cultural renaissance.'' Interesting, and probably choice fare for Richards fans, but hardly gospel. (B&w photographs--not seen.) -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Global Rhythm Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 8496879429
• ISBN 13: 9788496879423
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 504