The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

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Summary: My favorite book ever!
Review: What makes this book so amazing? Author Stanley Booth captures the most popular rock band of all time by actually being there with the band as a friend, through some of the most memorable moments in the history of music: Booth is there at Altamont when a spectator is killed by the Hell's Angels (and Booth appears in the movie on the concert), he's there when Jimi Hendrix is with the Rolling Stones backstage, he's there when Janis Joplin is playing before the Stones come on, he's there when the Stones are hanging out with Chuck Berry, he hangs out in a recording studio when the Stones record, and he goes to London to view Brian Jones' grave and goes to Jones' parents' home to interview them. Booth is like a ghost that will always be there in the soul of music and of the Rolling Stones. This book should be required reading in college writing courses to teach young writers how to write with excitement and reality. Every page is a masterpiece!

Rating:
Summary: Good
Review: Yeah, I liked this, but there weren't sections I've read over and over like some other Stones books. It took Stanley Booth more than ten years to write this. I think that if he'd gotten the text down sooner, the feel would have been more urgent. Some of the feel and memories I think dried up by the time he finished it. But a decent read for any Stones fan. And I liked how Mick was embarrassed when someone called him on his stinky feet, and how he acted shy singing in front of Stanely Booth. He can sing in front of tens of thousands, but to sing in front of one person he knows gives him stage fright. Ahhh, Mick, I luv ya yer vulnerabilities!