Book description
In 2002 the Stones celebrate their 40th anniversary. Their story -
the band's rise, the Marianne Faithfull, Brian Jones and Altamont
scandals, the groundbreaking hits - is the stuff of twentieth century
legend, and core to popular culture. But as always, Norman's skills as
a researcher and biographer bring a whole new dimension to such a
story. Written with a personal knowledge and the trust of the
participants, this fully updated version includes the Jerry Hall/Mick
Jagger split and the stones' lives as tax exiles.
'The Stones are lucky to have found a biographer of Philip Norman's
class' Pete Townshend
'An elegiac book, a record of evanescence as much as of durability,
and it reminds us of an epoch that threw up lions with no more energy
than it threw out losers' The Times
