Christopher Sandford > Quotes

“By March 1965, the core Rolling Stones image was such that they’d been described as ‘crude’ by Ed Sullivan and ‘scum’ by the News of the World.”
― Christopher Sandford, The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years

“Among them would be an enterprising teenager in Freehold, New Jersey, who snapped up a mail order copy of the record, played it ‘thirty or forty’ times in rapid succession, and then immediately began badgering his father, a prison guard named Doug Springsteen, for a guitar.”
― Christopher Sandford, The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years

“Shortly after that, a young band named Gun, currently enjoying a top forty disco hit, was announced as the Stones’ London warm-up.”
― Christopher Sandford, The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years

“Your show is running late because Keith doesn’t want to go on stage until he gets a shepherd’s pie.”
― Christopher Sandford, The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years

“Suddenly Bill Graham stuck his head round the door and said, “The police are here!” We all panicked and threw our dope in the bog. Then Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland walked in.”
― Christopher Sandford, The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years

“London, Mick would have a final showdown with Chrissie Shrimpton and effectively tell her he felt ‘very bored’ and didn’t want to see her again. When she took a nearly fatal overdose of sleeping pills and sent Mick the hospital bill, he refused to pay it. Lin Eastman became Linda McCartney.5”
― Christopher Sandford, The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years

“as ‘my drummer’. Charlie got up, showered, shaved, dressed in a Turnbull and Asser shirt, silk tie and three-piece suit, went downstairs, grabbed Mick and punched his lights out. ‘It”
― Christopher Sandford, The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years

“I want to be known as a good bowler … My ambition is to dominate … What I’m always after is penetration,’ he’d once remarked. Within a few short months his textbook technique, iron will and unshakable self-confidence had convinced even the most sceptical that his targets were well within his scope.”
― Christopher Sandford, Imran Khan: The Cricketer, The Celebrity, The Politician

“only two individuals in the world whose mere announced arrival guaranteed pandemonium on the streets: the Pope and Mick Jagger.”
― Christopher Sandford, The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years

“Defries was forced to cancel dates in Dallas and Houston because of weak advance sales.”
― Christopher Sandford, Bowie: Loving the Alien

“Keylock to arrange a delivery of roses from Chivers the Florist ‘whenever Brian seems down’.”
― Christopher Sandford, The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years

“Bitter Sweet Symphony’ was legally removed from the Verve and credited to Jagger–Richards. Klein went on to license the song for use in a TV commercial by Nike.”
― Christopher Sandford, The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years