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Title: The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth ISBN: 1-55652-400-5 Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (16 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great reading once you get into it
Comment: Having been a Stones fan for ever I was looking forward to reading this book, however at first I put it right back down again as the author's style was a bit hard to get into. Later when I picked it up and got through the Author Block on my behalf I found this to be a really well written insight into the the Stones and what went on around them. Having sampled first hand in some ways the lifestyles described in this book I found it bringing back memories good and bad of those times when I doubt if anyone really knew what was going.on.
This is really two books in one the history of the Stones and memories of hanging out with the Stones themselves.
A great book overall.
I hope that Stanley Booth is rewarded justly for the work he put into this book he deserves it, as do the Stones for the work they have done over the years.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Rock And Roll Band Book
Comment: Author Stanley Booth had the ultimate access to the Stones. He managed to get a contract for a book on the Band, found access, and convinced the Stones themselves to authorize his work as well as let him accompany them on the 69-70 tours, just before the infamous stuff of Altamont happened. By managing to last with the Stones, over time actually becoming one of the rare friends who could find and hang out with the Band members, he acquired an incredible store of tales, which he tells in a remarkably literary manner in this book. Using quotes from the likes of Norman Mailer, "Hambone," the Crystals, Cynthia Plastercaster (if you don't know about her, you really need to get this book), Booth clearly demonstrates his credentials as a serious author. The book benefits.....the best story of the writing of Satisfaction by the Holiday Inn pool in Clearwater is in here as are the tales of Mick and Keith's arrival at Altamont (not at all what you would suspect). All in all, this is one of the good ones and you can't go wrong by taking time to read it cover to cover.
Rating: 5
Summary: Simply The Best
Comment: In over 20 years of reading books on bands, this is head and tails above the rest. The author if I remember correctly ended up a heroin addict as he followed the Stones around at the end of The Sixties. This book is so well written that it pulls you in and you can imagine being there. On top of that you get the death of Brian Jones and the buid-up and follow-up to Altamont.
Realley, this book is unmissable.
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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: 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: S.T.P.: A Journey Through America With The Rolling Stones by Robert Greenfield ISBN: 0306811995 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: Nankering With the Rolling Stones by James Phelge ISBN: 1556523734 Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Keith Richards: The Biography by Victor Bockris ISBN: 0306808153 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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