This is a book published in 1990 with interviews of people around the Rolling Stones about their beginnings and the 1960s. The Rolling Stones are my favorite band but I hadn't really read a lot about them so this was a really interesting read. How Brian Jones started the band and their influences and struggles in that early going. The interviews of the girlfriends and people around the band are really very good and give great insight into this time. Brian Jones is an interesting person, everyone says he was a super talented musician with ability to play several instruments and his personality influenced Jagger but there was also a competitiveness between them that Jagger seen he had to win. Jones real issues were his inability to write the songs they were playing and also a terrible drug habit. The drug habit caused him to miss performances and recording sessions as well as personal issues of fighting and physical assaulting his girlfriends. It is a sad story for him but from reading this can see that Jones had to be kicked out of the band. Soon after this happened he drowned in a pool accident at his house. The author worked to track down people that were there at the time and he came to believe some of the home remodeling workers that were at the party were the cause of Jones drowning. Lots of good information about the time and the band in this book.
This is one that will be a keeper for me since it is about the Rolling Stones. First book of the new year finished.
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