Stanley Booth's book is the only one I can read and say, 'Yeah, that's how it was'
KEITH RICHARDS If you've never bought a book about rock and roll, no matter - this is the one you've been waiting for

Playboy

The most brutally compelling book about rock'n'roll and its casualties ever written

Guardian

An epic, behind-the-scenes record of life with the greatest rock band in the world, capturing both the carnivalesque excess and the mundane grind of the rock tour

Observer

Stanley Booth's affection for the band did not keep him from writing about the seamy underside of the Stones' world in the Sixties . . . It is the only book about the Stones that I would recommend both to the general reader and to the most devoted fan. Booth will find an epiphany on almost every page

New York Times Book Review

By far the best book on its subject (including Richards's own well received effort), Booth's book is also easily the most convincing account of life inside the monster created by the rock revolution of the 1960s

Guardian

True Adventures of the Rolling Stones, first published in 1984 and now republished in a new edition, remains one of the most vivid and brilliant books ever about rock ' n ' roll and the late - 1960s - early - 1970s counterculture. [ . . . ] His book remains an example of the best writing about popular music ever put down on paper

Daily Express

Shattering . . . Booth has found his voice and momentum with a pitch and passion I've never seen equalled in pop journalism . . . His book outdistances anything the Stones have wrought since Let It Bleed

Los Angeles Herald Examiner

Remains one of the most gripping accounts ever written about the band . . . so awash with tumult and drama it at times has much in common with reportage from the front lines of the war in Vietnam, like Michael Herr's Dispatches

Uncut

Booth's strong, sound prose brings to life the out-of-control process through which an age intoxicated by its own passions found a hard-driving music to live hard by. In all the annals of the '60s, there is nothing on paper that so evokes those days and nights

Salon