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The Stone age : sixty years of the Rolling Stones / Lesley-Ann Jones.
In 'The Stone Age', an acclaimed rock and roll journalist evokes the legacy of The Rolling Stones - iconic, granitic, commercially unstoppable as a collective, and fascinating, contradictory and occasionally disturbing as individuals. Good, bad and often ugly, here are the Rolling Stones as never seen before. A childhood friend of David Bowie, Lesley-Ann Jones has interviewed many of the world's most-loved artists, including Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Madonna, and Prince.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781639362073 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 388 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
- Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2022.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Rolling Stones. Rock groups > England > Biography. Rock musicians > England > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Personal narratives. |
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- Baker & Taylor
An acclaimed rock-and-roll journalist delves into the legacy of The Rolling Stones, revealing how a band of ultimate anti-establishment misfits, commercially unstoppable as a collectiveâand fascinating, contradictory and occasionally disturbing as individuals, became the global brand we know today. Illustrations. - Baker & Taylor
An acclaimed rock-and-roll journalist delves into the legacy of the Rolling Stones, revealing how a band of ultimate anti-establishment misfits, commercially unstoppable as a collective--and fascinating, contradictory and occasionally disturbing as individuals, became the global brand we know today. - Simon and Schuster
An acclaimed rock and roll journalist evokes the legacy of The Rolling Stonesâiconic, 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.â On 12th July 1962, the Rollinâ Stones performed their first-ever gig at Londonâs Marquee jazz club. Down the line, a âgâ 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 âcorruptors of youthâ and âmessengers of the devil,â 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 Jonesâs new history tracks this contradictory, disturbing, granitic and unstoppable band through hope, glory and exile, into the juggernaut years and beyond into rockâs 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.
