The Rough Guide to The Rolling Stones 1

by Sean Egan, Rough Guides

Still going strong after four decades, The Rolling Stones are the ultimate rock band. The Rough Guide to The Rolling Stones explores every aspect of the music, and charts how Mick, Keith and the boys invented rock stardom. Features include: The Story: From the blues clubs of 60s Chelsea to the world tours and millionaire mansions, The Music: 50 essential songs and the stories behind them, plus the albums, bootlegs, soundtracks and solo projects, The Entourage: the girlfriends, managers and musicians, from Jerry Hall and Marianne Faithful to Andrew Loog Oldham and Nicky Hopkins, The Rolling Review: the movies, books and websites – all the Stones info you’ll ever need. This Rough Guide leaves no stone unturned.

Genres: Music

312 pages, Paperback

First published October 2, 2006

About the author

A freelance journalist, author and editor who writes about arts and entertainment (music, film, TV, comics and literature), social history (20th and 21st centuries) and sport (soccer and tennis history).

Reviews

[Nicholas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very informative book covers the Stones up to A Bigger Bang with plenty of cool features such as top 50 songs and an album by album overview section. Although I found the book to be very well researched, it clearly has a very sharp bias towards the early Stones and is very dismissive of their later output after Tattoo You (and even then some). I think in general there does tend to be a very negative view of the latter Stones and its a shame this book subscribes to that viewpoint. In any case the book does a good job of outlining allot of the behind-the-scenes struggles of the band, such as the decline and death of Brain Jones and the departure of Bill Wyman. For a handy source on the Greatest Rock N' Roll Band, its hard to beat this one, just as long as you avoid the obvious negative bias.