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dead.flowers
When he returned the advance for his prospective auto biography, didn't he say at that time that he couldn't write such a book while the people appearing therein were still alive?
EDIT: orthography
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Stoneage
For accuracy - read Wyman's biographies. For the tales - read Richard's biography. There will never be a Jagger autobiography. Most of the Jagger biographies out there seem to be gossip orientated.
And some of them are more or less copy and paste jobs. If you have read one you have read them all, so to speak.
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padre69
Yep, Ronnie's, Keith's and Bill's autobiographies are read. Wonder when Charlie does his... :-)
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padre69
Yep, Ronnie's, Keith's and Bill's autobiographies are read. Wonder when Charlie does his... :-)
In the nineties Watts said in an interview: "I hope we are not all going to end up writing our memoires."
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ProfessorWolf
isn't phillip norman's books the ones that have a picture of a baby charlie
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Sighunt
I think the comments above regarding there not being any substantive Mick Jagger biographies out there other (than your gossipy/tabloid fare) are probably accurate. Early in my Stones obsessed life, I collected a lot of them that are either thrown out or collecting dust. The best books I enjoyed about the Stones (that INCLUDED or had little snippets of insight re: Mick Jagger) were authored by Bill German, Stanley Booth, Robert Greenfield, and Bill Wyman.
However, not being a book itself, the closet I got to a great read about Jagger was the extensive interview he did for Rolling Stone magazine that came out in 1995 at the time of the Voodoo Lounge tour. From my perspective, that one was one of the more revealing interviews he had done up to that point.
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Re: Which Mick biography? new
Posted by: padre69 ()
Date: March 31, 2021 12:20
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ProfessorWolf
isn't phillip norman's books the ones that have a picture of a baby charlie
I have Cristopher Andersen's Jagger biography and at least that has baby Charlie’s photo labeled as Mick. Funny if that continued in Norman's book. :-)
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Re: Which Mick biography? new
Posted by: CaptainCorella ()
Date: March 31, 2021 06:04
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ProfessorWolf
but if you want something real crazy just for the fun of it read this
amazon
I am a book person.
My partner is a book person.
We met at book-binding classes over 45 years ago.
When we moved recently we had over 6,000 books.
I have a database of over 1,000 "music" books that are on my shelves.
I buy books and I KEEP books.
Except one.
The ONLY music book I have ever literally thrown away as being worthless was that Scaduto book.
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Captain Corella
50+ Years a Fan
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Sighunt
I think the comments above regarding there not being any substantive Mick Jagger biographies out there other (than your gossipy/tabloid fare) are probably accurate. Early in my Stones obsessed life, I collected a lot of them that are either thrown out or collecting dust. The best books I enjoyed about the Stones (that INCLUDED or had little snippets of insight re: Mick Jagger) were authored by Bill German, Stanley Booth, Robert Greenfield, and Bill Wyman.
However, not being a book itself, the closet I got to a great read about Jagger was the extensive interview he did for Rolling Stone magazine that came out in 1995 at the time of the Voodoo Lounge tour. From my perspective, that one was one of the more revealing interviews he had done up to that point.
I think I posted on that interview before...what it called "Jagger Remembers"?
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Sighunt
I think the comments above regarding there not being any substantive Mick Jagger biographies out there other (than your gossipy/tabloid fare) are probably accurate. Early in my Stones obsessed life, I collected a lot of them that are either thrown out or collecting dust. The best books I enjoyed about the Stones (that INCLUDED or had little snippets of insight re: Mick Jagger) were authored by Bill German, Stanley Booth, Robert Greenfield, and Bill Wyman.
However, not being a book itself, the closet I got to a great read about Jagger was the extensive interview he did for Rolling Stone magazine that came out in 1995 at the time of the Voodoo Lounge tour. From my perspective, that one was one of the more revealing interviews he had done up to that point.
I think I posted on that interview before...what it called "Jagger Remembers"?
Yes, I believe Jagger Remembers is what it was called. Good call! It really was a great read.
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Hairball
I recently posted this in the Mick Taylor thread a few weeks ago in regards to Mick J commenting on MT, but it covers SO much more.
Mick Jagger Remembers
RollingStone, 1995
In one of his most in-depth interviews ever, the Rolling Stones frontman
looks back on 30 years in the world’s greatest rock & roll band
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jbwelda
I think Jagger's would be mostly about where his dick ended up at any given time, and thats not all that interesting to me.
jb
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jbwelda
I think Jagger's would be mostly about where his dick ended up at any given time, and thats not all that interesting to me.
jb
Well, Jagger himself seemingly had similar account on that as you do. Namely, seemingly that was the problem with the manuscript of his autobiography - short on sex and that kind of dirty, private stuff, and that's why the publisher didn't want to publish it.
But instead Mick revealed stuff like that in his first band he played bass.
It was "boring", they said. "That's not what interests people". Into which Mick replied "fvck you" and that was the end of it.
- Doxa
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jbwelda
I think Jagger's would be mostly about where his dick ended up at any given time, and thats not all that interesting to me.
jb
Well, Jagger himself seemingly had similar account on that as you do. Namely, seemingly that was the problem with the manuscript of his autobiography - short on sex and that kind of dirty, private stuff, and that's why the publisher didn't want to publish it.
But instead Mick revealed stuff like that in his first band he played bass.
It was "boring", they said. "That's not what interests people". Into which Mick replied "fvck you" and that was the end of it.
- Doxa