Rolling
Stones Rip This Joint : The Stories Behind Every Song by Steve Appleford, Chris Welch
Behind the scenes at the recording sessions for such classics as "Brown
Sugar" and "Wild Horses" and the making of Stones albums, from the psychedelia-drenched
"Their Satanic Majesties Request," through the decadent blues and country
of "Exile on Main Street", Rolling Stones: Rip This Joint is heavily
illustrated with photos of the band from its founding days to the present.
The book covers every Rolling Stones song in detail: how it was written,
recorded and why. It also includes over 130 four-color illustrations and
a song-by-song description of the output of what some people call rock's
greatest band. Featuring original interviews with those close to the band,
such as Marianne Faithfull, and collaborators such as Bobby Keys, Jim Price
and the Dust Brothers, this is the essential companion to a legendary 35-year
repertoire. The Publisher Paperback - 256 pages Rev edition (March 30, 2001)
Thunder's Mouth Press; ISBN: 1560252812
Keith by Stanley Booth, Bob Gruen (Photographer)
(Paperback - February 1996)
Rolling
with the Stones by Bill Wyman, Richard Havers
Of his own choosing, Bill Wyman's career as a founding member of the
Rolling Stones has achieved a perspective that his legendary bandmates
don't yet enjoy: a beginning, middle, and end. Indeed, the musicians once
hailed as the greatest rock & roll band in the world have become more
like the band that wouldn't die. But history can't be denied, and the man
born William Perks of Lower Sydenham, London, has lovingly assembled this
over-500-page book, equal parts memoir and lavishly illustrated coffee-table
tome, with a winning mix of clear-eyed reportage (based on his own voluminous
diaries) and an eye for colorful detail and ephemera worthy of a proud
family scrapbook. Which, in many ways, Rolling with the Stones most resembles:
family--and musical--trees are acknowledged, career moves dissected, deaths
mourned, and triumphs and foibles alike are dispensed with equal candor.
Wyman deflates the myth of the Stones as rock's preternatural bad boys
(a conservative, sensationalist press made it all too easy to live down
to expectations) yet allows the tragic legend of band founder Brian Jones
to assume its proper perspective. A half-decade older than his bandmates,
the retired Stone has few illusions about the band's true cultural impact
and creative arc, devoting nearly three-quarters of the book to the Stones'
first, turbulent decade. What is more gratifying is that he avoids the
myopic constraints of the similarly sized Beatles Anthology, generously
weaving the recollections of band members, associates, family, reporters,
and even fan letters into a narrative whose outline is epic, but whose
viewpoint has a decidedly human scale. --Jerry McCulley - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 496 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.71 x
12.47 x 10.49
DK Publishing; ISBN: 0789489678; 1 Amer Ed edition (October
28, 2002)
The Electric Guitar: An Illustrated History by Paul Trynka (Editor)
Foreword by Keith Richards
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Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey: A Journey to Music's Heart & Soul by Bill Wyman, Richard Havers
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Dance With the Devil : The Rolling Stones and
Their Times by Stanley Booth
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