Respected music author Patrick Humphries will be talking about his excellent book Rolling Stones 1969 at the Badlands shop as part of the Cheltenham Lit Crawl 2019. The event will start at 6.30pm and is free entry, but please arrive early as space in the shop may be limited.

Saturday, October 5, 2019 at 6 PM – 7 PM
Badlands Records
11 St Georges Place, GL50 3LA Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK

Against a backdrop of social unrest and protests The Rolling Stones entered 1969 as a successful blues band that had experimented with psychedelia but were returning to their rock'n'roll roots. By the end of 1969 they had released a stone cold classic, lost one of their founding members, played an era defining concert at Hyde Park to half a million people and seen a fan stabbed to death at their concert in Altamont. This is the story of how 1969 cemented the Stones as 'the greatest rock & roll band in the world'.

Author Bio:
Patrick Humphries started out as a hip young gunslinger on New Musical Express in 1976, and has been writing about music ever since. In the intervening years he has interviewed three Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Roger Waters, Joe Strummer, Elvis Costello, Cher, Neil Tennant and Art Garfunkel, among others. He has contributed to The Times, The Independent, The Guardian, Mojo and Sunday Express and has written numerous books including definitive biographies of Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, Tom Waits, Richard Thompson and Lonnie Donegan. He has also written and presented a wide variety of series and individual documentaries for BBC Radio 2 and Radio 4.

Patrick Humphries did extensive work with his "Rolling Stones 69" book, also in Cheltenham, where he visited several times to get details and facts for his book. Badlands is a natural local contact point, located in Cheltenham, with deep knowledge about the Stones and Brian Jones.

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PS. This thread will be merged into the above thread "Rolling Stones 69 - Book by Patrick Humphries" next week.

Bjornulf

Or eventually merged into the "Mick Taylor what's on your mind right now" thread.

Least sticky thread in a while

I just finished reading this book. Not bad.

Any book with fresh perspective is of interest. If it's just the same old same old rehashing of stuff we've read a million times then not so much.

Going by his Youtube interview it's more of the latter. His making stuff up about the footage from March 1969 put me off. Given the crap he say's about Brian so does his choice of Cheltenham for this event.



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