The Rolling Stones are a rock ‘n’ roll institution. Founded in London in 1962 by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the late Brian Jones, this book charts their career from early pub and club gigs through to Stonesmania on the back of the worldwide hit ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ and onto 1969’s era-defining free concert in London’s Hyde Park. 

 

First hand fan accounts plot the Stones’ journey to fame via UK and US hit singles and headline-making outrage in the British Establishment because the Stones grew their hair long, refused to wear a collar and tie and wouldn’t smile on cue for the press. 

 

Britain in the post war 1960s was a different place; a black and white world where teenagers were expected to respect their elders and know their place. The Rolling Stones epitomised teenage rebellion. Teenagers saw the Rolling Stones as the antidote to the saccharine and clean-cut Beatles. This collection of over 600 fan memories of the classic line up of Mick, Keith, Brian, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman tells the Stones story afresh in the words of their audience.

 

Hardback.

 

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