NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 26, 2010
""A jury of my peers would be Jimmy Page, a conglomeration of musicians, guys that have been on the road and know what's what," Richards growls. Let no mere mortal judge him, then, but merely admire both his well-written pages and his stamina."
The dread pirate Richards, scourge of straight society and rock icon, bares all--including a fang or two.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 30, 2006
"There's much sleaze to be found in these pages, but precious little about how the Stones forged their rock-'n'-roll art."
NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2004
"Less than a glance at what drove "the man death forgot.""
Hollow if high-revved portrait of the Rolling Stones guitarist and songwriter from rock-music biographer Sandford (
Mick Jagger, 1994, etc.). The only thing missing, tellingly, is his subject's voice.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 6, 2001
"An engrossing cultural narrative, riddled with bombastic prose."
A detailed biography of the Rolling Stones, emphasizing musical minutiae and salacious recollections.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2001
"Although the early chapters contain wearisome lists of celebrities and dreary accounts of dissipation, once the Beatles and Stones arrive on stage, the memoir picks up some real energy. (60 b&w photos)"
The original manager of the Rolling Stones recalls his unconventional boyhood and his fortunate alliance with the bad boys of rock music.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 28, 1995
"Still, a welcome addition to the growing library of Stones- related tomes. (10 pages b&w photos, not seen)"
A prose meditation on Rolling Stone Keith Richards by a man who entered the Stones' inner sanctum as a journalist in the late '60s and subsequently became the guitarist's friend and confidante.
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