The Stones: The Acclaimed Biography

The Stones: The Acclaimed Biography
Philip Norman

In 2012 the Rolling Stones celebrate their 50th anniversary. Their story – the band's meteoric rise to fame, the Marianne Faithfull, Brian Jones and Altamont scandals, the groundbreaking hits – is the stuff of twentieth century legend, and core to popular culture.But it is Norman's skills as a researcher and biographer which bring a whole new dimension to such a story. Written with the personal knowledge, trust and co-operation of the participants, this fully updated version is indisputably the best book on The Stones ever written.Norman spares no detail, covering the Jerry Hall/Mick Jagger split and the Stones' lives as tax exiles, the recording of Exile on Main St. as well as the iconic stage performances, Mick’s control of the band's affairs and his contractual disputes with managers and promoters.This a story of fame, money, drugs, booze, sex, hedonism and the greatest rock band of all time.

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First published by Elm Tree Books/Hamish Hamilton 1984

Paperback edition published by Penguin Books 1993

Updated edition by Sidgwick and Jackson published by Pan Macmillan 2001

This updated edition published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2012

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CONTENTS

Cover (#u1d306233-09cf-53e1-91c1-75ddaf18a323)

Title Page (#u66b3cbcc-04cb-55ac-93dd-896f4bda4d9b)

Copyright

Dedication (#ud9b4ef22-9777-5067-961c-9f7f291b7234)

Foreword (#u07ae248c-07e4-55be-8542-49936f7eae39)

PART ONE

1 ‘I was schooled with a strap right across my back’

2 ‘Well, the joint was rockin’ …’ (#u96100f18-f397-5485-97c7-d35becdcf6ba)

3 ‘I belong to you and you belong to me, so come on’ (#ub8cf14d2-346b-545e-99fa-4302dc15b2f5)

4 ‘Beatle your Rolling Stone hair’ (#u1fcf8413-b23f-5701-b11a-1e994fdbad40)

PART TWO

5 ‘My client has no fleas’ (#u89dd0664-c383-57ba-aec4-654ab5502ae4)

6 ‘Everybody’s got something to hide’ (#litres_trial_promo)

7 ‘It’s down to me; the change has come …’ (#litres_trial_promo)

8 ‘The Oscar Wilde mistake’ (#litres_trial_promo)

9 ‘A Mars bar fills that gap’ (#litres_trial_promo)

PART THREE

10 ‘Sing this all together – see what happens’ (#litres_trial_promo)

11 ‘There’s just no room for a street-fighting man …’ (#litres_trial_promo)

12 ‘He hath awakened from the dream of life’ (#litres_trial_promo)

13 ‘We’re gonna kiss you goodbye’ (#litres_trial_promo)

14 ‘The Stones like France tremendously’ (#litres_trial_promo)

15 ‘Black and Blue’ (#litres_trial_promo)

16 ‘God Speed the Rolling Stones’ (#litres_trial_promo)

17 ‘Then there were four’ (#litres_trial_promo)

18 ‘Some girls give me children …’ (#litres_trial_promo)

Plate Section

Afterword (#litres_trial_promo)

Author’s Note (#litres_trial_promo)

Index (#litres_trial_promo)

Also by Philip Norman (#litres_trial_promo)