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| Media: Hardcover |
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Editorial Review:
The Rolling Stones, commonly referred to as the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band, epitomize everything that's excessive, lavish, exciting, and powerful about rock music. Here, founding member and bass player Bill Wyman presents an honest and humorous account that serves as a backstage pass to the band's history, from drug busts, to tax exile, to solo careers. Straight from Wyman's huge personal archive, "Rolling with the Stones" features previously unreleased letters, photographs, memorabilia, and personal journals. With over 2000 photographs, more than 45 beautifully designed tour spreads, song lists from every show, and biographies on each band member.
Description of Rolling With The Stones:
Of his own choosing, Bill Wyman's career as a founding member of the Rolling Stones has achieved a perspective that his legendary bandmates don't yet enjoy: a beginning, middle, and end. Indeed, the musicians once hailed as the greatest rock & roll band in the world have become more like the band that wouldn't die. But history can't be denied, and the man born William Perks of Lower Sydenham, London, has lovingly assembled this over-500-page book, equal parts memoir and lavishly illustrated coffee-table tome, with a winning mix of clear-eyed reportage (based on his own voluminous diaries) and an eye for colorful detail and ephemera worthy of a proud family scrapbook. Which, in many ways, Rolling with the Stones most resembles: family--and musical--trees are acknowledged, career moves dissected, deaths mourned, and triumphs and foibles alike are dispensed with equal candor. Wyman deflates the myth of the Stones as rock's preternatural bad boys (a conservative, sensationalist press made it all too easy to live down to expectations) yet allows the tragic legend of band founder Brian Jones to assume its proper perspective. A half-decade older than his bandmates, the retired Stone has few illusions about the band's true cultural impact and creative arc, devoting nearly three-quarters of the book to the Stones' first, turbulent decade. What is more gratifying is that he avoids the myopic constraints of the similarly sized Beatles Anthology, generously weaving the recollections of band members, associates, family, reporters, and even fan letters into a narrative whose outline is epic, but whose viewpoint has a decidedly human scale. --Jerry McCulley
Rolling With The Stones Reviews:
Blablabla, read it yorself 
2008-11-17 - Billy Wyman is paying tribute to Brian Jones here. Brian could tell a quarter note false immediately. He could tell to play it propper. Brian had interswitches about the things to come. the moneymachine. the short life. whatever, nice read.
Of course it's great! 
2008-01-13 - Are you at all interested in the idea of a giant coffee table book about the Rolling Stones? If the answer is no, then this book probably won't convince you otherwise.
BUT if your answer is even a mild yes, then you should definitely get this book -- it's available at some good prices (as a used book), at least when I bought it. It's huge, sprawling, great photographs, fantastic tid-bits, and all about the band's epic journey. I can't imagine anything competing with it, frankly, and you'll be sucked in for hours. Well worth it!
Bill, you are conspicuous by your absence!
2007-11-15 - A great, marvelous book, written by someone who KNOWS, as opposesed to tomes libeling Brian Jones or (this one is almost funny, were it not so pathetic) Sanchez' "I Was Keef's Dealer," (a-huh-huh-huh). One has to but just glance at how the Stones are visibly disintegrating to understand Bill Wyman's decision to leave while the group had a shred of integrity.
Awesome Coffee Table Book
2007-09-04 - Great Book, Nicely made, Great rare pic, and Bill Wymans story is a great detailed and true one.
Must have for the Stones fan.
Superb Book - Rolling with the Stones
2007-05-30 - For a first purchase, this book exceeded expectations both for content and value for money. Bill Wyman has included many items of interest relating to happenings of the time. Very readable and an excellent archivist. The ease of purchasing such a bargain will ensure that I will certainly make purchases from Amazon in the future. I purchased the book as a present, but will keep an eye out for a copy for myself as this was the only one left in stock at the time ordering.
