New E-Book released on March 31, 2015:
"Before They Make Me Run - Keith Richards and the Bust That Saved The Rolling Stones" by Jason Schneider.
It is following Keith Richards and The Rolling Stones in Toronto from 1977 to 1979, including the drug bust and the concerts at The El Mocambo and the Oshawa Civic Auditorium.
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THE PRESS RELEASE:
CANADIAN AUTHOR/MUSIC JOURNALIST JASON SCHNEIDER RELEASES FIRST E-BOOK
BEFORE THEY MAKE ME RUN: KEITH RICHARDS AND THE BUST THAT SAVED THE ROLLING STONES CHRONICLES BAND’S (MIS)ADVENTURES FROM 1977-1979
TORONTO, ON – On March 31, veteran Canadian music journalist and acclaimed author Jason Schneider releases his first exclusive E-Book, Before They Make Me Run: Keith Richards and the Bust That Saved The Rolling Stones.
The book will be available for $4.99 USD at Amazon for Kindle users [LINK] and at Smashwords for iBooks, Kobo, Sony Reader, Nook and other devices [LINK].
About the book:
In the mid-1970s, after a decade as the undisputed “greatest rock and roll band in the world,” The Rolling Stones were forced to confront not only the cold reality of the new punk rock era, but how guitarist Keith Richards’ mounting personal problems were threatening the band’s very existence.
Keith’s glorified image as rock’s ultimate outlaw, as a counterpoint to singer Mick Jagger’s image as rock’s ultimate sex symbol, was the basis of the Stones’ mystique. But at the start of 1977, as the Stones agreed to work on a new album in Toronto and spark the creative process by playing a small club there, all that Keith represented seemed to be finally catching up to him.
Before They Make Me Run is the first accurate chronicle of Keith Richards and The Rolling Stones’ darkest period, from the bust that led to charges of heroin trafficking laid against Keith, to his ultimate exoneration after playing what was surely the most unexpected benefit concert in history.
No detail is overlooked or unexamined, including eye-witness accounts of the Stones’ El Mocambo concerts, the truth behind Canadian First Lady Margaret Trudeau’s involvement with the band, the creation of the Stones’ final masterpiece Some Girls, and the complex political and legal wrangling behind the outcome of Keith’s trial: a concert to benefit the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.
Written in a lively tone befitting the Rolling Stones’ music, Before They Make Me Run is an essential addition to any Stones library.
About the author:
Jason Schneider’s books include Have Not Been The Same: the CanRock Renaissance 1985-1995 (co-authored with Michael Barclay and Ian Jack), Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music from Hank Snow to The Band, and the novel 3,000 Miles. For over a decade he was an assistant editor at Canada’s national music monthly Exclaim!, and his work has also been published in Paste, The Word, Relix, Shindig, the Toronto Star, the Globe & Mail, and numerous other outlets.
FROM THE BOOK:
On the morning of February 24, 1977, twenty-eight pieces of luggage belonging to the Richards family slid onto the carousel at the Toronto International Airport. After disembarking from their British Airways overnight flight, Keith Richards and his seven-year-old son Marlon looked on as Royal Canadian Mounted Police customs officers collected each bag, preparing for the inevitable. Keith’s common-law wife Anita Pallenberg, Marlon’s mother, had just been arrested and charged with possession of hashish and heroin. Under normal circumstances, the Rolling Stones organization wouldn’t have allowed Keith and Anita to try entering a foreign country on their own. Their drug addictions were public knowledge, something everyone working for the Stones was used to accommodating. At that moment, however, it was as if no one involved with the trip to Canada was even expecting them.
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