"Ronnie" - my late & short review
Posted by:
Child Of Clay
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Date: December 17, 2007 11:59
read this book, promising beginning, roots discussed without boring genealogy (I just hope no one gets the idea the Woods are Romany-people, they're "just" water gypsies, is all).
What follows - the rock years - is for the most part a good read, and the dirt most readers expect to find in books on such revellers as Ronnie is there, but some "facts" should've been re-checked, and his version of Led Zep history is bizarre.
The illustrations and photographs are excellent, but the final parts of the memoirs get a little dull somehow, especially when Ronnie lists all the famous people he's had over and all the records the Stones have broken since Steel Wheels.
Still a must for a Stones fan, and the good parts outnumber the not-so-good parts. No shite parts to speak of.
And it was a bargain from Amazon, certainly wouldn't pay what they ask for it in Helsinki book stores (35-45 euros!)