Excuse me if there has been a topic already posted about this. I read through the last several pages and saw nothing related.

Back to the point...

I recently finished reading Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones and I'm currently reading S.T.P.: A Journey Through America With The Rolling Stones both by Robert Greenfield.

Just wanted to tap the vast wealth of knowledge here for other books that I need to read.

this topic does come up every few months - but anyway!
i find all of the following miles better than Greenfiel's stuff -
more accurate, better written and a lot more in tune with what the Stones are about:
Stanley Booth's True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
James Phelge's Nankering with the Stones
Chet Flippo's On the Road with the Rolling Stones
Bill Wyman's Rolling with the Stones
the Stones' According to the Rolling Stones

this topic does come up every few months - but anyway!
i find all of the following miles better than Greenfiel's stuff -
more accurate, better written and a lot more in tune with what the Stones are about:
Stanley Booth's True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
James Phelge's Nankering with the Stones
Chet Flippo's On the Road with the Rolling Stones
Bill Wyman's Rolling with the Stones
the Stones' According to the Rolling Stones

Bolded are in my amazon cart...and thanks for the reply

The Dark Stuff and Apathy For The Devil by Nick Kent.

Shots From The Hip by Charles Shaar Murray.

Both of these feature other bands as well, but Kent and Murray are the best rock writers (along with Lester Bangs of course) and are both Stones freaks. Nick Kent's books in particular are wonderful. Highly recommended.

"A Life On the Road" features interviews by the band and some people really close to them, it also contains great photographs. All biographies are problematic because the authors like Booth, who writes some interesting stuff, or the ridiculous moron Tony Sanchez mix up the Stones' story with their own lifes.In 2000 there was a german biography which was okay, I will post the author's name later.

Please, give me too an advice: Cutler Sam, You Can`t Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Other Wonderful Reprobates - is this good book?

Any of Bill's books.. Ronnie woods book and i think Bill German's book..
I have enjoy the ones listed above too.

If you can get linked to archived Rolling Stone magazine interviews, those are good. Especially one Keith gave in 1971 I think, not sure about that, but the interviewer was Robert Greenfield. it's one of the better Keith interviews, and may be posted here on IORR if you do a search. Greenfield's recent book isn't very good though.

Not sure if these are still in print but when i was first getting into the stones i loved these:

David Dalton-The First Twenty years
Roy Carr-The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record
Robert Palmer-The Rolling Stones

Oh and the John Perry Exile book is really good too



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The 33 1/3 Exile book (by Bill Janovitz) is also good.

Is Bill Wyman ever going to do a Volume 2?

Flippo is a hell of writer and he was CLOSE to the band between 75 & 81!

Up And Down With The Rolling Stones is great. Who knows if it's all true - I'm sure a lot of it is - but who cares. A real page turner as they used to say.

I really enjoyed uber fan Bill Germans book. Absolutely a fantastic fan side tale.

NickB

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What I would like to read is a 2011 *Rolling Stone Magazine* with The Stones itinerary details for their next tour in it.That would certainly be a good read in anyones lanuage.

According to the Stones...... all the myths are there!

"Well my heavy throbbers itchin' just to lay a solid rhythm down"

I would say Bill Germans book, it focuses on a time in the band that not all books covered, because to some people (in my experience anyway) the Stones are viewed as a 60s band, and some books reflect this. Take Wymans "Rolling With The Stones" for example, great as it is, a large part of it comprises of the 60s. "Stone Alone" was the same. I wish it hadn't of ended in 1969.

Tony Sanchez's "Up & Down" is good, mainly because it focuses on the dysfunction of the band in the 60s and 70s, but I think some parts are exaggerated, I think it was published to shock, rather then Wymans books for example, which are about the history of the band.



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Not a lotta readin' matter ... but Hayward lumps tagether some amazing early rare shots...

THE ROLLING STONES -- ON CAMERA off guard 1963-69 ---- MARK HAYWARD





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