Mine is" Rolling with the Stones".



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Just bought Barbara Charones bio on Keith Richards and its a great read

Its Only Rock and Roll, Karnbach & Bernson....now THAT is a book.

JR

Geoffrey Giuliano: Not Fade Away - The Rolling Stones Collection. Nice pictures of rare releases, bootlegs and stones-stuff!

Stanley Booth's True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
Chet Flippo's On the Road With the Rolling Stones
James Phelge's Nankering With the Stones

I've read a few but the only one that stands out is the Chet Flippo book mentioned above, he's a damn good writer.

Jim

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Up and Down With the Rolling Stones -- Tony Sanchez-- Hilarious !

The Rolling Stones Unauthorized Biography by David Dalton

Some of the above mentioned but also A Journey Through America With The Rolling Stones by Robert Greenfield.

Mine is the French bio by François Bon, I can't recall the title of now ((c) 2002?). Some of the best reading I have done in years!

UP AND DOWN by Tony Sanchez

This is classic trash (or si it?) but what a classic! I must have read it 10 times when I first got into the Stones. The cover on the damn thing was ripped to pieces.

David Dalton's - early buy when first got into the band - wrapped in cellotape now
On Tour 75 - love the photos
Roy Carr's An Illustrated Record - don't agree with a lot of the reviews but really well put together - pity it was never updated past 1976 - was it??
Andrew Oldham's 2 books are a good read
Martin Elliott's for keeping count!!

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Seriously: Fanfare For The Common Fan, On Tour 75, Rolling With The Stones...

Too many!! I've got ca. 120 myself.

And depends what kind of book you're looking for.

The 2 early books by D. Dalton are nice. And Roy Carr's.

For different reasons I like the books from S. Booth,R.Greenfield's journey,Perry's Exile, T.Sanchez,Flippos on the road,Giulianos not fade away, Wymans Story and some of those expensive Genesis books (Exile,Crossfire and 75 tour).
Faithfulls bio is a great read!
Besides - some of the nicest Stones/Keith stories are in other peoples bios/books!

The new book, "Exile on Main St." is weak....really weak.

I liked Old Gods Never Die. I like the way it chronicled all the Stones albums and tours from the beginning right up through the licks tour.

stickyfingers101 Wrote:
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> The new book, "Exile on Main St." is
> weak....really weak.


I'm halfway through this stinker now. Sorry, but despite the mega inaccuracies, I like the sanchez book. I mean, how does he remember exact meaningless quotes made when he's zonked out of his mind! Hillfingarious.-

First 25 Years - David Dalton.

Zagalo Wrote:
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> David Dalton's - early buy when first got into the
> band - wrapped in cellotape now
> On Tour 75 - love the photos
> Roy Carr's An Illustrated Record - don't agree
> with a lot of the reviews but really well put
> together - pity it was never updated past 1976 -
> was it??
> Andrew Oldham's 2 books are a good read
> Martin Elliott's for keeping count!!

YES, I had always hoped for a Roy Carr Pt. 2 as well!!

I Love those Genesis Books, "Exile", "TOTA", "Blinds & Shutters", "Crossfire Hurricane"; "Masons Yard".

Have to agree with those who say Roy Carr's Illustrated Record, a fine book with some great pictures. For those who are interested his similarly-titled book on Elvis is just as good. He kind of updated the Stones book a bit within the pages of NME when he did a long piece about the 78 tour that summer which was excellent too.

Speaking of old music papers there was, unusually, a long interview with Ian Stewart published in the NME (I think) around the 1975 US tour which gave his fairly unique views. For instance, he talks about what a buried gem 'Loving Cup' is and how although he played on it he didn't like 'Honky Tonk Women' much.

Felix Aeppli's Heart of Stone whilst not exactly a book can you can sit down and read, was ground-breaking when it first appeared in the 80's as the first serious attempt to collate everything.

sweetcharmedlife Wrote:
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> I liked Old Gods Never Die. I like the way it
> chronicled all the Stones albums and tours from
> the beginning right up through the licks tour.

I agree. Sure, Stephen Davis is hack who mainly goes in for the gossip (as his Zeppelin and Morrison books prove), but it's probably the most comprehensive biography book on the Stones I can think of, and I've read all of em, probably. I quite like the Victor Bockris Keith bio as well, even if it does get a bit too "Keith is God" at times (I mean, he IS, but the book is a bit too fawning at times...)

Surprisingly, I was very disappointed with "According To...", er, can we say, "Watered Down", boys? Bill Wyman's books were better, even if "Stone Alone" is, in a lot of ways, just one big axe to grind.

Having said that, I await Ronnie and Keith's books with great anticipation. I bet, axe grinding aside, Mick Taylor could write a HELL of a book about his time with the Stones...