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The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years
Christopher Sandford
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Description for The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years
Paperback. The definitive story of the most controversial and longest surviving band in music history Num Pages: 512 pages, 16pp colour plate section. BIC Classification: AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 182 x 33. Weight in Grams: 376.
In 1962 Mick Jagger was a bright, well-scrubbed boy (planning a career in the civil service), while Keith Richards was learning how to smoke and to swivel a six-shooter. Add the mercurial Brian Jones (who'd been effectively run out of Cheltenham for theft, multiple impregnations and playing blues guitar) and the wryly opinionated Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts, and the potential was obvious.
During the 1960s and 70s the Rolling Stones were the polarising figures in Britain, admired in some quarters for their flamboyance, creativity and salacious lifestyles, and reviled elsewhere for the same reasons. Confidently expected never ... Read more
In 1962 Mick Jagger was a bright, well-scrubbed boy (planning a career in the civil service), while Keith Richards was learning how to smoke and to swivel a six-shooter. Add the mercurial Brian Jones (who'd been effectively run out of Cheltenham for theft, multiple impregnations and playing blues guitar) and the wryly opinionated Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts, and the potential was obvious.
During the 1960s and 70s the Rolling Stones were the polarising figures in Britain, admired in some quarters for their flamboyance, creativity and salacious lifestyles, and reviled elsewhere for the same reasons. Confidently expected never ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849832847
SKU
V9781849832847
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About Christopher Sandford
Christopher Sandford has been a professional writer for 40 years and a frequent writer about the Rolling Stones for more than 30. He has published many previous books and is the only writer to have written biographies of both Mick Jagger, 'the classic biography' (The Times) and Keith Richards 'Sandford's affectionate, warts-and-all portrait of Keith is undoubtedly the best read' (Sunday ... Read more
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