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Rolling Stones Book:
Ronnie: The Autobiography
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Ronnie: The Autobiography |  |  | | List Price: $25.95 | | Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Salesrank: 67883
Released: October 30, 2007 | | Our Price: $4.75 | | Used Price: $4.69 | | | Media: Hardcover | |
Editorial Review:
For the first time, a member of the world’s most famous rock ‘n’ roll band tells his—and their—story. Raw, unsanitized, nasty and fascinating. An incredible journey.
The first of his family to be born on dry land, Ronnie Wood came from a family of water gypsies and was raised in a council flat near Heathrow Airport. Growing up only wanting to paint and play music, Wood was always talented. And in the 1960’s, he was often in the right place at precisely the right time—becoming the guitar player for everyone from the Birds to Jeff Beck to the Faces and then to Rod Stewart . But Wood and his guitar-playing became super-charged when he joined The Rolling Stones. They were rock royalty from their earliest days, and from the first time Wood performed with the band, careening down New York City’s Fifth Avenue on a flatbed truck Wood has been at the center of the court and in the middle of the ferment. No band has ever combined the Stones’ success--both artistically and materially—with their longevity. No other band has ever survived the creativity and clashes of such big personalities.
But with success came excess—and as mayhem and hysteria followed Ronnie on his adventures through the extremes of rock ‘n roll, the drugs got harder and his relationships—especially with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the women in his life—became increasingly complex.
A fascinating portrait not just of the Stones, but of the greatest rockers of the 1960’s and beyond—from Eric Clapton to Rod Stewart, Jimmy Page to Keith Moon, Jimi Hendrix to Pete Townshend—RONNIE is a rich, revelatory book. Readers have never had a view of the rock world like this before.
Ronnie: The Autobiography Reviews:
not without some merit 
2008-08-28 - This is a fun read. Just don't trust any of the dates past 1978. The chronology is definitely jumbled. Perhaps this is understandable considering the copious amounts of drugs that he admits to consuming. However, the fact that no editor corrected statements like Woody saying he did a show with Dennis Wilson in 1985 (he died in '83) is almost shameful...
THE LOW SPARK OF HIGH HEELED BOYS.
2008-07-26 - THE WOODMANS LONG JOURNEY WEAVES US THROUGH THE
LABARYNTHS OF ROCKS HALCION DAYS - ETCHED WITH
CANDID IF NOT GRAPHIC FLASH BACKS TO THE MUSICS
EARLIEST INFLUENCES TO WHAT HAS NOW BECOME TO ALL,
QUINTISENSUAL CLASSIC ROCK.
RONNIE IS FOR THOSE WHO LIVED THROUGH THE LATE 60'S
ONWARDS - AN ENGROSSING READ!.
THE CONSUMATE JAMSTERS ABILITY TO ADAPT HIS CHOPS
TO SO MANY STYLES OF ROCK LUMINARIES THAT FINALLY
CULMINATES TO HIS ASCENT INTO WITHOUT A DOUBT THE
WORLDS GREATEST WORKING BAND IS REMARKABLE.
WARTS - D C'S AND ALL THE 356 PAGES FOCUSES ON FAMILY,
WIVES,CHILDREN,FRIENDS,PLAYERS AND LEGENDS - NOT
ENOUGH ALAS WAS SPENT ON THE LONDON YEARS - NO
MENTION AT ALL OF "THE SPEAKEASY" THE CLUB THAT
HOSTED MORE HISTORIC ONE NIGHT IMPROMPTU JAM
SESSIONS THAN CAN EVER BE IMAGINED,WOODY BEING
IN NEARLY EVERY ONE..
I WOULD OF ALSO LIKED MORE ON THE IMPORTANCE
OF THE STYLE AND FEEL OF LONDON DURING THOSE DAYS.
MORE ON GRANNYS - SWEENYS - COSTAS - RUSKINS AND
OF COURSE THE CHELSEA COBBLER ..
STRANGELY MISSING - HARDLY A WORD ON GLIMMER TWIN
NUMBER TWO ? BUT THERE AGAIN"LOOSE LIPS MIGHT SINK SHIPS"
WE WILL JUST HAVE TO WAIT FOR HIS MAJESTY TO PUT
PEN TO PAPER,BUT DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH.
'YOU DON'T WANT ME TROUSERS TO FALL DOWN NOW DO YA"
RONNIE ON THE P C ROCK BIO GRADE TWANGS IN AT A SOLID 7.
WEAVE IT OR LEAVE IT - RONNIE IS DEFINITELY A WEAVER WORTH
WEADING
Quite nice 
2008-07-15 - First get me right here: as much as I do NOT like the Stones that much, this is a very nice and funny little autobiography by one of its members. He has had a much more interesting career as a member of the Faces and the Jeff Beck group among other things. However the very sympathetic way in which he recounts his past experiences make even the Stoens years interesting (OK, I guess they ARE an important group after all). The book is written with a great deal of wit and he comes over really well in this biography which is not the usual "my groupie and drug hell" kind of bio that everybody seems kind of keen on producing as of late.
Ronnie - the "other" Rolling Stone 
2008-06-28 - Why this man is not classified as one of the true Rolling Stones is beyond me.
Boring, pointless, superficial 
2008-06-17 - What a disappointment. I'm a longtome Stones fan, so I already know the story and the details. But other than about two pages of interesting anecdotes about hanging with Keith in the 70's, there's nothing here-- just a quick summary of his life. An incredible disappoinment and waste of money.
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