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Title: Keith Richards: The Biography by Victor Bockris ISBN: 0-306-80815-3 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A helluva good read about an icon who defines rock n roll
Comment: Like a swinging Keith Richards riff on top of the powerful backbeat of Charlie Watts's "Engine Room" I tore through this book so fast the pages were almost burning in my hands. I couldn't put the book down or stop reading it. Bockris proves with this biography that Keith Richards truly IS the ultimate rock n' roll icon through his inimitable, rhythmically driven style, attention to what makes music "swing" (something multiple modern artists have discarded) and an incredible presence that oozes off the pages. While Bockris backs his book up with the dialogues of those who knew Keef, these accounts often seem contradictory-- perhaps shedding some light on the paradox that is legend. Either way-- a must for all Richards apprentices, Rock afficinados and anyone who wants to learn a thing or two about how to feel their pulse more effectively...
Rating: 3
Summary: Conflicted but good
Comment: Victor Bockris appears to be, to some degree, the king of the classic rock biographies. In this book, he turns his eye toward Rolling Stone Keith Richards, and his tumultuous life in and out of the band, as well as those around him like Anita Pallenberg and Mick Jagger.
Merely as a biography, this is pretty good. Bockris intersperses the ordinary biographical info with appropriate quotes from Keith, Anita, Mick, and many other people. He accentuates the good and the bad in Keith, the stuff about him that even he didn't know, and his attitude toward the public, his son, his wife, and so on.
And some parts of it don't really seem to work. For example, the information on Anita talks about how brilliant and strong she was, and emphasizes that she could have handled Brian Jones on her own. But she kept getting hit by Brian, and later Keith; she doesn't seem to have been able to handle it. And intellectually, her quotes include things like, "She was really, like, totally self-obsessed." Really totally? Maybe it was the heroin. And Bockris seems a little enamored of Keith's time as a junkie, because we hear a lot more about that side of his life than any other part of it.
The photos are definitely a disappointment. There is one per chapter, and usually it's a rather dull shot of Keith looking pensive, or just walking, or sitting, or signing things, or something of the sort. There are a couple of Anita or Mick, but not of many other people (for example, where is Marianne Faithfull? Bianca Jagger? Marlon? Dandelion?). As a result it's slightly difficult to form a clear picture of some of the interactions.
"Keith Richards: The Biography" is a pretty good rock-star bio, focusing more on the life of the subject than what the groupies said about him. Certainly for fans of the Rolling Stones and classic rock.
Rating: 5
Summary: If your a Stones fan, you can NOT pass this book up
Comment: Great account of Keith's entire life as told by the man himself. The book gives a vivid account of Keith's musical beginnings, development and maturation as a musician and songwriter. Discusses his many musical influences, relationships with women, highs and lows with the stones and his 10+ year battles with heroin. The guy lives and breathes music 24/7, he is non-stop. By the end of the book I got a profound sense of someone who is a truly dedicated musician. It leaves no doubt why he has become a musical influence himself. You will not be disappointed with this book. A job very well done.
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Title: Keith : Standing in the Shadows by Stanley Booth ISBN: 0312141165 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth ISBN: 1556524005 Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: According to the Rolling Stones by The Rolling Stones ISBN: 0811840603 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Faithfull by Marianne Faithfull, David Dalton ISBN: 0815410468 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Rolling with the Stones by Bill Wyman, Richard Havers ISBN: 0789489678 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 28 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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