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Book SynopsisIn 2012 the Rolling Stones celebrate their 50th anniversary. Their story – the band's meteoric rise to fame, the Marianne Faithfull, Brian Jones and Altamont scandals, the groundbreaking hits – is the stuff of twentieth century legend, and core to popular culture.
Trade Review'The Stones are lucky to have found a biographer of Philip Norman's class'
Pete Townshend
'An elegiac book, a record of evanescence as much as of durability, and it reminds us of an epoch that threw up lions with no more energy than it threw out losers'
The Times
‘Wonderfully unravels the social history of that extraordinary time, and does not pull any punches’
Daily Telegraph
‘Details their amazing career and lifestyle…After reading this account one cannot help but marvel that they have survived’
Daily Express
‘Read it as a cautionary tale of success becoming excess…read it through a haze of nostalgia that will send you back to the early indifferently produced LPs – and the singles whose power derives from the simplest riffs and the most indelible memories of the Sixties. But read it’
John Walsh in Books and Bookmen
