According to the Rolling Stones

MICK JAGGER, KEITH RICHARDS, CHARLIE WATTS, RON WOOD, DORA LOEWENSTEIN, PHILIP DODD

ISBN 10: 0811840603 / ISBN 13: 9780811840606

Published by Chronicle Books Llc October 2003, 2003

About this Item

used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: According to the Rolling Stones
• Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc October 2003
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811840603
• ISBN 13: 9780811840606
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: VG
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Here is the inside story: the history of the Rolling Stones - according to the Rolling Stones themselves. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood have come together for this book. They have also opened up their personal and band archives to include many rare and intimate photographs that are interwoven with their great stories of forty years making music together.

Reviews

That their longtime band mate Bill Wyman did his own exhaustive Stones coffee-table book last fall hasn't stopped the other members from doing a collection of old photos and recollections, too. The snapshots are wonderful (one of Jagger talking to Chuck Berry, each in a more outrageous '70s getup than the other, is particularly memorable) and the reminiscences, set up as an oral history, London slang and all, are engaging as well. Richards recalling postwar London as "horseshit and coal smoke, mixed with a bit of diesel here and there" really drives home just how long these guys have been around. Richards's wit is razor sharp, and the band's collective knowledge about old blues, R&B and jazz is awesome. What sets the book apart from Wyman's is a collection of essays from various musicians, industry people and authors. Sheryl Crow's is particularly heartfelt, as she describes when Jagger called to invite her to sing at a 1995 pay-per-view gig in Miami, then to share Thanksgiving dinner with the band and vomiting up the holiday meal before taking the stage. "Is there a way to describe what it is like to have Mick Jagger flirt with you on stage as if you were alone in a bedroom?" she writes. Author Carl Hiaasen writes about drawing inspiration from the old Stones photograph that hangs above his desk. Whether there's room on the coffee table for both Wyman's book and this one depends on the fan's love of the band.
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