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‘A compelling account of the Stones trashing America during 1972… Greenfield was allowed the kind of access journalists can only dream of today’ (The Times )
‘The best book ever written about the Stones, if not music in general’ (Independent )
‘One of the greatest rock books ever written' (GQ )
‘As riveting now as it was four decades ago.’ (Andy Fyfe Q )
‘a first-hand account, that becomes compulsive reading. If you only read one account of a rock tour, this should be the one’ (Jim Stewart The Beat )
‘The best book ever written about the Stones, if not music in general’ (Independent )
‘One of the greatest rock books ever written' (GQ )
‘As riveting now as it was four decades ago.’ (Andy Fyfe Q )
‘a first-hand account, that becomes compulsive reading. If you only read one account of a rock tour, this should be the one’ (Jim Stewart The Beat )
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‘A compelling account of the Stones trashing America during 1972… Greenfield was allowed the kind of access journalists can only dream of today’ The Times The Stones’ 1972 tour of the States was perhaps their best – and certainly most notorious – ever. Their previous visit in 1969 had ended in the nightmare of Altamont; now, three years later, they had just recorded their two finest albums, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street, and were musically in their prime – if also personally at their most dissolute and debauched. Robert Greenfield, one of America’s finest writers, went along for the ride and came back with a riveting account of high living, excess and rock & roll fury, from the Playboy Mansion to the jail cells of Rhode Island. This was an extended tour Party, capital P, to which all America’s hip, rich and glitzy were invited, from Truman Capote to Stevie Wonder, Annie Liebowitz to Hugh Hefner. The result has been acclaimed as one of the all-time classic music books. Published for some years by Helter Skelter under the title A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones, it is now reissued by Aurum under its original title with a new introduction by the author. Robert Greenfield is also the author of Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones and biographies of Timothy Leary and Jerry Garcia. He lives in California. (201004)
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This is probably the most critically acclaimed book about a legendary US rock tour in the 1970s. Greenfield documents every aspect of the Stones' triumphant return to the US in 1972 after 3 years away to tour their classic album "Exile on Main St". Each chapter moves across the American landscape from city to city, with tales of logistical nightmares, business disputes, long drug fuelled days on coaches and aeroplanes, even longer nights in sleazy hotels, brushes with US law enforcement and bizarre excesses with groupies. Greenfield was forensic in his detailed recollections about how the roadies, tour managers and other hangers on (known collectively as the Stones Touring Party or STP) behaved towards everyone with whom they came into contact (including physical intimidation and financial exploitation). And throughout all this he keenly observed Jagger and the band's behaviour, how they coped with the fan worship and just how far they were at the top of their game live on stage. He also captured the sheer monotony for the tour managers and road crew tasked with the rather unglamorous aspects of delivering a 2 hour rock show night after night. And how, after two months of drugs, booze and 24 hour hedonism both the STP and the band themselves were almost at their wits end by the time they played their final sell-out shows in Madison Sq Garden. This is a gripping read for fans of the golden era of rock'n'roll.
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This is an inside account of the mayhem on the Stones 1972 tour of USA, akin to the Hammer Of the Gods it dishes the dirt on the bad boy behaviour and the sad boy despairs of the Stones and their entourage. It reads well, avoiding the dreary list of who had what for breakfast and who took how much of what,but drops anecdotes into factual accounts in a conversational way. Not too long either.
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Was rather disappointed to tell the truth. I'll usually happily read anything around the Stones but this was wasn't at all well written in my view and I was disappointed. The content wasn't bad but the style of writing was basic and a little unprofessional I thought, which made it an unattractive read.
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