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The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
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The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

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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 1968. He lived with them throughout their 1969 tour across the United States, 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 1960s. In Booth's afterword, he finally explains why it took him 15 years to write the book, relating an astonishing story of drugs, jails, and disasters. Updated to include a foreword by Greil Marcus, this 30th anniversary edition is for Rolling Stones fans everywhere.

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Release dateOct 1, 2014
ISBN9781613731994
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
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Stanley Booth

Stanley Booth is the author of Keith: Standing in the Shadows and has lived in Dedham since 1943.

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    Great insights into an intelligent group of ballasts aka The Rolling Stones!
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    Follows the Stones on the fated 1969 US tour that culminated in the concert at Altamont. I knew I was in good hands as soon as I read the following early passage, describing the reporters at a pre-tour Stones press conference:"They all appeared to be in their early twenties... dressed in the current style, achieved by spending large sums of money to look poor and bedraggled, like a new race of middle-class gypsies. They ate like gypsies, snatching up cakes and fruit and drinks."Captures not only The Stones at the peak of their world dominance, but also the peak and decline of an era. Wonderful reading.
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    For me, Stanley Booth and Nick Tosches are the two finest writers on 20th-century popular music and its creators. True Adventures is fascinating for all the reasons you'd expect an account of touring with the Stones in 1969 to be fascinating, but Booth's abilities as observer and writer take this out of the realm of "music journalism". Completed and released years after the events described, Booth brings the perspective of age while still beautifully conveying his original sensations, emotions, and reactions to the mad world he briefly inhabited.

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