{"product_id":"9781398520325-rolling-stones-sixty-years-pa","title":"The Rolling Stones: Sixty Years","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe classic biography of the Rolling Stones - updated for their 60th anniversary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new, updated edition of Christopher Sandford's classic biography of the band, \u003ci\u003eThe Rolling Stones\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping account of the band's remarkable 60 years at the top of the rock industry. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1962 \u003cb\u003eMick Jagger\u003c\/b\u003e was a bright, well-scrubbed boy (planning a career in the civil service), while \u003cb\u003eKeith Richards\u003c\/b\u003e was learning how to smoke and to swivel a six-shooter. Add the mercurial \u003cb\u003eBrian Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (who'd been effectively run out of Cheltenham for theft, multiple impregnations and playing blues guitar), the wryly opinionated \u003cb\u003eBill Wyman\u003c\/b\u003e and drummer \u003cb\u003eCharlie Watts\u003c\/b\u003e, and the potential was obvious.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring 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, the band is now celebrating \u003cb\u003e60 years together\u003c\/b\u003e with a European tour, \u003cb\u003eSixty\u003c\/b\u003e, to mark the occasion. Of the original line-up, only Jagger and Richards remain, along with 'new boy' \u003cb\u003eRonnie Wood\u003c\/b\u003e, who joined the band in 1975. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Rolling Stones\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cb\u003eLike no other book before \u003ci\u003eThe Rolling Stones\u003c\/i\u003e makes 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943868379233,"sku":"9781398520325","price":9.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31793660.jpg?v=1734596989","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781398520325-rolling-stones-sixty-years-pa","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}