The Rolling Stones : the biography / Bob Spitz.
"From the award-winning, bestselling author of classic histories of the Beatles and Led Zeppelin, a groundbreaking reckoning with the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band All great music is a threat. What left is there to say about The Rolling Stones? A hell of a lot, it turns out. Bob Spitz has brought his indefatigable energy and five decades of experiences in the fields and hollows of rock 'n' roll to bear on his five-year journey to reexamine one of popular music's greatest stories. There are myriad revisions to the conventional narrative which underscore just how in control of that narrative the band has been up to now-small example: no, Muddy Waters was not mopping the floors at Chess Records when the Stones showed up. But in a larger sense, as with the Beatles and Led Zeppelin, Spitz's greatest gift is for the big picture. He knows where the magic is, and why it is. He is as clear-eyed a connoisseur of the show business, the spectacle and the collateral damage of this whirlwind as anyone alive, and that lucid gaze pierces a lot of incrusted bullshit, but the ultimate goal is to connect with a creative force whose power shows no signs of fading, over sixty years on. At its heart the story is about two boys, Mick and Keith, and their unique, fraught, alchemical bond, often tested, never sundered. The Glimmer Twins. The bandmates, like Charlie Watts, who found their groove in relation to this double star made the trip intact, while those who struggled, like Brian Jones and Mick Taylor, were chewed up and spit out. This is a story with many dark corners, including a surprising number of deaths. But whether Jagger and Richards sold their souls to the devil is at the crossroads for blues greatness or just squeezed their heroes for every drop of inspiration, in the end their connection to their music and to each other put them in a category of one, where they very much remain"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593489093
- ISBN: 0593489098
- Physical Description: 690 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2026.
- Copyright: ©2026
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [607]-666) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Prologue -- The Blues Brothers -- On Fire-And Lost -- Drunk on the blues -- Poised to Turn the Corner -- Ready to explode -- Moving up the Pop Music Food Chain -- The Anti-Beatles -- A Roller-coaster Emotional Ride -- A Breakthrough Year -- He Who Laughs Last -- The Pulse of Swinging London -- Bollocks to That, We're the Stones -- The Redlands Affair -- Butterfly on a Wheel -- Justice for All -- An Artistic Breakthrough -- The Glimmer Twins -- Death by Water -- Misadventure -- The Greatest Rock 'n Roll Band in the World -- Just a Shot Away -- A Classic Crossroads -- Au Revoir and Bon Chance -- The Basement Tapes -- Band on the Run -- Distractions -- High and Vital -- Waterloo -- Blind Justice -- Identity Crisis -- World War III -- Not Fade Away -- Epilogue.
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