The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones - Tapa blanda

"A vivid account of life on the edge." --TheWeek.com

"[Stanley Booth's] affection for the band did not keep him from writing about the seamy underside of the Stones' world in the 1960s. . . . It is the only book about the Stones that I would recommend both to the general reader and to the most devoted fan. Both will find an epiphany on almost every page." --Robert Palmer, "New York Times Book Review"

"Astonishing . . . part oral history and part midnight diary in a world where midnight goes on forever." --"Los Angeles Reader"

"Booth's strong, sound prose brings to life the out-of-control process through which an age intoxicated by its own passions found a hard-driving music to live hard by. In all the annals of the 1960s, there is nothing on paper that so evokes those days and nights." --Robert Stone, " Salon"

"If you've never bought a book about rock and roll, no matter--this is the one you've been waiting for." --"Playboy"

"Shattering. . . . Booth has found his voice and momentum with a pitch and passion I've never seen equaled in pop journalism. . . . His book outdistances anything the Stones have wrought since Let It Bleed." --Mikal Gilmore, "Los Angeles Herald Examiner"

"By far the best book on its subject (including Richards's own well received effort), Booth's book is also easily the most convincing account of life inside the monster created by the rock revolution of the 1960s." --Richard Williams, "Guardian"

""The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones" is, simply put, one of those essential texts of music journalism. Groundbreaking, insightful, funny and tragic, it's a piece of reporting that could never take place today." --"The Houston Press"

"Booth's prose (his other books include "Rhythm Oil" and "Keith: Till I Roll Over Dead") is writerly, funny. Good anecdotes about bad behavior abound. But in telling the tale of the Stones, during that 1969 American tour that sent him and them criss-crossing the country en route to the date with fate -- Altamont, the giant outdoor "free concert" where four people were killed and four were born -- Booth also has a larger story to tell." --Record & Herald News