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The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
- Author
- Stanley Booth
- Narrator
- Nick Sullivan
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 15 June 2013
- Run Time
- 17 hours 45 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones' inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool in 1969.
He lived with them throughout their 1969 American tour, staying up all night together listening to blues, talking about music, ingesting drugs, and consorting with groupies. His thrilling account culminates with their final concert at Altamont Speedway—a nightmare of beating, stabbing, and killing that would signal the end of a generation's dreams of peace and freedom.
But while this book renders in fine detail the entire history of the Stones, paying special attention to the tragedy of Brian Jones, it is about much more than a writer and a rock band. It has been called—by Harold Brodkey and Robert Stone, among others—the best book ever written about the sixties.
In a new afterword, Booth explains why this book took fifteen years to write—an astonishing story of drugs, jails, and disasters.
Critics Review
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“Stanley Booth’s book is the only one I can read and say, ‘Yeah, that’s how it was.’”
Keith Richards
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“If you’ve never bought a book about rock and roll, no matter—this is the one you’ve been waiting for.”
Playboy
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“Shattering…Booth has found his voice and momentum with a pitch and passion I’ve never seen equaled in pop journalism…His book outdistances anything the Stones have wrought since Let It Bleed.”
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
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“The one authentic masterpiece of rock ’n’ roll writing.”
Peter Guralnick, New York Times bestselling author
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“[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. Both will find an epiphany on almost every page.”
New York Times Book Review
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“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.”
Robert Stone, National Book Award-winning author
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Details
- Author
- Stanley Booth
- Narrator
- Nick Sullivan
- Duration
- 17 hours 45 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 June 2013
- ISBN
- 9781481592024
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Biography: arts and entertainment, Composers and songwriters, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Biography: arts and entertainment, Biography: historical, political and military, Popular music
Synopsis
Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones' inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool in 1969.He lived with them throughout their 1969 American tour, staying up all night together listening to blues, talking about music, ingesting drugs, and consorting with groupies. His thrilling account culminates with their final concert at Altamont Speedway—a nightmare of beating, stabbing, and killing that would signal the end of a generation's dreams of peace and freedom.But while this book renders in fine detail the entire history of the Stones, paying special attention to the tragedy of Brian Jones, it is about much more than a writer and a rock band. It has been called—by Harold Brodkey and Robert Stone, among others—the best book ever written about the sixties.In a new afterword, Booth explains why this book took fifteen years to write—an astonishing story of drugs, jails, and disasters.
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