The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years - Couverture rigide

Sandford, Christopher

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9780857201027: The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0857201026 ISBN 13 : 9780857201027

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2012

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Book by Sandford Christopher

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

In 1962 Mick Jagger was a bright, well-scrubbed boy (planning a career in the civil service), while Keith Richards was learning how to smoke and to swivel a six-shooter. Add the mercurial Brian Jones (who'd been effectively run out of Cheltenham for theft, multiple impregnations and playing blues guitar) and the wryly opinionated Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts, and the potential was obvious.
During the 1960s and 70s the Rolling Stones were the polarising figures in Britain, admired in some quarters for their flamboyance, creativity and salacious lifestyles, and reviled elsewhere for the same reasons. Confidently expected never to reach 30 they are now approaching their seventies and, in 2012, will have been together for 50 years.
In The Rolling Stones, Christopher Sandford tells the human drama at the centre of the Rolling Stones story. Sandford has carried out interviews with those close to the Stones, family members (including Mick's parents), the group's fans and contemporaries - even examined their previously unreleased FBI files. Like no other book before The Rolling Stones will make sense of the rich brew of clever invention and opportunism, of talent, good fortune, insecurity, self-destructiveness, and of drugs, sex and other excess, that made the Stones who they are.

Quatri�me de couverture :

1961
On the raw, autumnal morning of 17 October, Kent and much of the south-east was covered in fog. The trains that particular Tuesday were running late. On the drab northbound platform at Dartford station, a lone passenger, draped in an overcoat and a purple, black and gold scarf, was waiting for the delayed 8.28 to London, where he was due to attend an Economic History lecture. Mike Jagger was jumping up and down, half from cold, half with his usual nervous energy. The time was shortly before nine. In a career discussion earlier that week with his tutor, Jagger had repeated his plans to become a school teacher or, failing that, perhaps 'a journalist or historian' of some sort. His father Joe said he thought he had it in him to be a top economist. Almost anything, they all agreed, but music.
As Jagger peered down the curve of platform 2, that particular option seemed singularly improbable. A moment later it became inevitable. Looming out of the depths of the fog was Keith Richards, lugging his guitar.

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