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The Stone Age

Sixty Years of the Rolling Stones

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The Stone Age

By: Lesley-Ann Jones
Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
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'However much you thought you knew about The Stones before you read it, afterwards you'll know more. It's glittering' - Simon Napier-Bell

'Special [...] it's brilliant' Johnnie Walker

From Sunday Times bestselling author Lesley-Ann Jones

On 12 July 1962, the Rollin' Stones performed their first-ever gig at London's Marquee jazz club. Down the line, a 'g' was added, a spark was lit and their destiny was sealed. No going back.

These five white British kids set out to play the music of black America. They honed a style that bled bluesy undertones into dark insinuations of women, sex and drugs. Denounced as 'corruptors of youth' and 'messengers of the devil', they created some of the most thrilling music ever recorded.

Now, their sound and attitude seem louder and more influential than ever. Elvis is dead and the Beatles are over, but Jagger and Richards bestride the world. The Stones may be gathering moss, but on they roll.

Yet how did the ultimate anti-establishment misfits become the global brand we know today? Who were the casualties, and what are the forgotten legacies? Can the artist ever be truly divisible from the art?

Lesley-Ann Jones's new history tracks this contradictory, disturbing, granitic and unstoppable band through hope, glory and exile, into the juggernaut years and beyond into rock's ongoing reckoning . . . where the Stones seem more at odds than ever with the values and heritage against which they have always rebelled.

Good, bad and often ugly, here are the Rolling Stones as never before. Entertainment & Celebrities Music Celebrity
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Having read many Rolling Stones books it’s easy to think - oh no, not another one, but the focus on the peripheral characters in the Stones’ story is very interesting and entertaining (not to forget sad!) This is one of those books that makes me think that my life and career (Graphic design, illustration, photography and 62 this year) is more preferable to theirs…….yes really!

A pleasure.

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Think the title says it all, gutter journalism at its very worst. There is little fact just regurgitated and overblown gossip. Terrible book.

A really nasty unpleasant and bigoted book

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Quite scathing and contradictory on facts that have been told by a lot of other books I have read about the Rolling Stones. She is no fan of Keith Richards and positively HATES with vengeance of Mick Jagger. Quite conveniently seem to gloss that Brian use to beat the crap out of Anita - and maybe THAT may have been the reason she left him for Keith.

This is no fan of the Rolling Stones.....

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