Mick & Keith

by Chris Salewicz

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have been together for over forty years. The oldest married couple in rock and roll, their story is the quintessential rock story, made up of the far from mutually exclusive areas of sex, drugs and rock and roll. Chris Salewicz has known Keith and Mick since the early 70s, and traces their journey from the early sixties jazz, blues and r'n'b scene in and around London, through the swinging mid-sixties and on to the Stones' French exile of the early seventies. Along the way Mick's numerous and complicated relationships are untangled, while Keith's descent from the almost innocent, scandalous nature of the Redlands trial of 1967 into a more desolate and befuddled heroin addiction in the seventies is assiduously chronicled. MICK & KEITH is not only a wonderfully vivid portrait of the Stones' extraordinary protagonists, but also a fascinating slice of rock and roll life in the sixties and seventies, the heyday of the band that changed popular music for ever.

Genres: Music

Paperback

First published November 7, 2002

About the author

Chris Salewicz's writing on music and popular culture has appeared in publications around the globe. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer."

Reviews

[S.S. Genesee · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful deep dive into the lives of Mick and Keith! This book is very heavily focused on the decade of the 1960s, taking over more than half of the book. There was a good deal of coverage of the early 70s too, but around after 1977 with Keith's Toronto drug bust, the next few decades really flew by in each chapter and were quite condensed until the end of the book, the author only really documenting some important highlights. (This was published in 2002 so the info stops there.)
That being said, I think this was very interesting and insightful to the early days of the Stones, and enjoyed reading it a lot!

[Bethnoir · Rating 2 out of 5]

I only read this because I ran out of stuff to read on holiday and it seemed the most entertaining of what was available. Having read Keith's autobiography , Marianne Faithfull's autobiographies and other books on the subject I found this irritatingly opinionated, struggling to appear cool and make the author sound like he was mates with the band. I don't think he was, I don't like his opinions, I admit because I already have my own and the first thing is always the music for me which is not the case here.

So it's okay if you haven't already read around the history of the Stones or listened to much past a greatest hits, but otherwise don't bother.

[Werciax · Rating 2 out of 5]

Jak dla mnie bardzo przeciętna, pochodząca pod słabą... dużo informacji, które moim zdaniem nie były ani interesujące ani zbytnio ważne a miały jedynie za zadanie powiększyć objętość książki.