The Stone Age: Sixty Years of the Rolling Stones by Jones, Lesley-Ann

The Stone Age: Sixty Years of the Rolling Stones (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781639362073)

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The Stone Age: Sixty Years of the Rolling Stones by Jones, Lesley-Ann

The Stone Age: Sixty Years of the Rolling Stones

$28.95
The Stone Age: Sixty Years of the Rolling Stones by Jones, Lesley-Ann

The Stone Age: Sixty Years of the Rolling Stones

$28.95
Format: Hardcover
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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.

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." On 12th July 1962, the Rollin' Stones performed their first-ever gig at London's Marquee jazz club. Down the line, a 'g' 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 'corruptors of youth' and 'messengers of the devil, ' 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 Jones's new history tracks this contradictory, disturbing, granitic and unstoppable band through hope, glory and exile, into the juggernaut years and beyond into rock's 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.

Author: Lesley-Ann Jones
ISBN-10: 163936207X
ISBN-13: 9781639362073
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Language: English
Published: 08/02/2022
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.20w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/27/2022
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2022
Library Journal 08/01/2022 pg. 99
By Lesley-Ann Jones
By Lesley-Ann Jones
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Lesley-Ann Jones is a bestselling biographer and broadcaster. She is the author of The Search for John Lennon; Bohemian Rhapsody: The Definitive Biography of Freddie Mercury; and Hero: David Bowie. A childhood friend of David Bowie, Lesley-Ann has interviewed many of the world's most-loved artists, including Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Madonna, and Prince, often forming lifelong friendships with her subjects. Lesley-Ann lives in England.

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