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The Stone Age
The Stone Age: Sixty Years of The Rolling Stones | Lesley-Ann Jones
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An acclaimed rock and roll journalist evokes the legacy of The Rolling Stonesiconic, granitic, commercially unstoppable as a collective; and fascinating, contradictory, and occasionally disturbing as individuals. As Lesley-Ann Jones writes, the Rolling Stones are "still roaming the globe like rusty tanks without a war to go to. Jumping, jacking, flashing, posturing, these septuagenarian caricatures with faces that might have been microwaved but coming on like eternal thirty-year-olds. On 12th July 1962, the Rollin Stones performed their first-ever gig at Londons Marquee jazz club. Down the line, a g was added, a spark was lit and their destiny was sealed. No going back. These five white British kids set out to play the music of black America. They honed a style that bled bluesy undertones into dark insinuations of women, sex, and drugs. Denounced as corruptors of youth and messengers of the devil, they created some of the most thrilling music ever recorded. Now their sound and attitude seem louder and more influential than ever. Elvis is dead and the Beatles are over, but Jagger and Richards bestride the world. The Stones may be gathering moss, but on they roll. Yet how did the ultimate anti-establishment misfits become the global brand we know today? Who were the casualties, and what are the forgotten legacies? Can the artist ever be truly divisible from the art? Lesley-Ann Joness new history tracks this contradictory, disturbing, granitic and unstoppable band through hope, glory and exile, into the juggernaut years and beyond into rocks ongoing reckoning . . . where the Stones seem more at odds than ever with the values and heritage against which they have always rebelled. Good, bad, and often ugly, here are the Rolling Stones as never seen before.
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141/150 This is a very strange book, its not easy to review. There is an uneasy dichotomy within it. On one hand, the author greatly admires and respects the Rolling Stones musical legacy and their talent, but on the other hand, her words drip with disgust and disdain when discussing the private lives of the band members. Their misogyny, their womanizing, their drug use, Jagger's serial infidelity, Wyman's pedophilia, continued in the comments ⬇️

RamsFan1963 and the bands general callousness to their fans and former band members like Brian Jones. It's definitely a warts and all portrayal of the band. 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 2y
RamsFan1963 3rd book finished for #NovelNovember @Andrew65 2y
Andrew65 Going great 👏👏👏 2y
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