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His Majesty
Keith Richards by Barbara Charone.
... and Keef's bio by Victor Bockris. Great reads!
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astmalia
In the seventies, I liked: The Rolling Stones - An illustrated record by Roy Carr
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astmalia
In the seventies, I liked: The Rolling Stones - An illustrated record by Roy Carr
..which is still great IMO though it ends with the Tour of Europe 1976.
A very bad book was written by Barbara Charone About Keith Richards. She admires him so much that it is very boring to read. In her opinion, everything he did was just great, and she thinks he is the center of the Rolling Stones. I mean, if you are not able to take a critical view on an artist, acknowledging his merits AND his fails it is just a fairytale. (Btw this is why I always insist that on this site fair critizism should never be suppressed). Boring, boring, boring![/quote
I agree and I disagree w/ your Charone book assessment. Because back then I loved it very much. It is probably not possible anymore nowadays, but there was a time when one looked at a book not only for content, but also how it stood within it's own time.
The Charone book was the first of a kind. Written from a woman's POV. It was someone from inside-ish; it was about Keith.
Yes, many paragraphs seem a little silly today, but at the time they were not.
Just like the huge RS interview with Keith was straight gold. But by today's standards it's a yawner.
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woody
A lovely book simply called 'STU' difficult to find and expensive but very good
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His Majesty
Keith Richards by Barbara Charone.
... and Keef's bio by Victor Bockris. Great reads!
Even if Victor does come over as an even bigger Keith fan that Keith
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Rocky Dijon
I largely agree with all of that, hopkins. LIFE knocked Keith off the pedestal I'd had him on since my teen years.
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GasLightStreet
I read Chet Flippo's book several times a year. It's awesome.