Download or read book Beatles vs Stones written by John McMillian and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s an epic battle was waged between the two biggest bands in the world—the clean-cut, mop-topped Beatles and the badboy Rolling Stones. Both groups liked to maintain that they weren’t really “rivals”—that was just a media myth, they politely said—and yet they plainly competed for commercial success and aesthetic credibility. On both sides of the Atlantic, fans often aligned themselves with one group or the other. In Beatles vs. Stones, John McMillian gets to the truth behind the ultimate rock and roll debate. Painting an eye-opening portrait of a generation dragged into an ideological battle between Flower Power and New Left militance, McMillian reveals how the Beatles-Stones rivalry was created by music managers intent on engineering a moneymaking empire. He describes how the Beatles were marketed as cute and amiable, when in fact they came from hardscrabble backgrounds in Liverpool. By contrast, the Stones were cast as an edgy, dangerous group, even though they mostly hailed from the chic London suburbs. For many years, writers and historians have associated the Beatles with the gauzy idealism of the “good” sixties, placing the Stones as representatives of the dangerous and nihilistic “bad” sixties. Beatles vs. Stones explodes that split, ultimately revealing unseen realities about America’s most turbulent decade through its most potent personalities and its most unforgettable music.
Download or read book The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock Roll written by Anthony ed DeCurtis and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the evolution of rock music from its earliest origins to today's most influential musical styles and performers
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones written by Victor Coelho and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of academic essays focused entirely on the musical, historical, cultural and media impact of the Rolling Stones.
Download or read book Rolling Stones Gear written by Andy Babiuk and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rolling Stones Gear is the first book to historically document all of the Rolling Stones' musical equipment. It's also the story of the Rolling Stones, but with a new twist: their history as told through the instruments they used. This book covers not only the group's personal background, but also every tour and studio session from their inception in 1962 to date, with detailed documentation illustrating what instruments and equipment were used during these periods. Every song recorded by the band, including demos and out-takes are also documented, with input from within the Stones' ranks as well as from people who were involved with the band. This lavishly illustrated book contains hundreds of photographs and rare images, many of which have never been published, including the Rolling Stones' actual guitars and equipment, which were specially photographed for this book and are seen here for the first time. Whether you are a musician, a Stones fan or just the casual reader, you will learn many new facts about the band from their monumental fifty-year existence. Win the brands of the Rolling Stones!Check out this fabulous Guitar Player Magazine contest!
Download or read book The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet written by The Rolling Stones and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred has expanded the Classic Album Editions series with the new Authentic Guitar TAB edition of the Rolling Stones' legendary record Beggars Banquet. The last record the Rolling Stones released with guitarist Brian Jones, Beggars Banquet includes the hit songs "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Street Fighting Man." The Authentic Guitar TAB edition provides the guitar parts for each of the songs as they were recorded. Titles: * Sympathy for the Devil * No Expectations * Dear Doctor * Parachute Woman * Jigsaw Puzzle * Street Fighting Man * Prodigal Son * Stray Cat Blues * Factory Girl * Salt of the Earth
Download or read book According to the Rolling Stones written by Mick Jagger and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's the inside story: the history of the Rolling Stones - according to the Rolling Stones. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, and Ronnie Wood have come together for this remarkable project. They've also opened up their personal and band archives to include many rare and intimate images that are interwoven with the text. The book gets right to the heart of what makes the Stones the Stones, as musicians, songwriters, performers, and colleagues. They describe how their music has evolved and how it has affected and changed their lives. They also reveal, with refreshing frankness, how their own lives have helped, or hindered, their music-making. The Stones' own words - insightful, funny, poignant, surprising, and above all, completely authentic - are complemented by insider reflections from key players in their story over the years such as Ahmet Ertegun, David Bailey, and Cameron Crowe. A comprehensive reference section including discography, and chronology, studded with the Stones' personal comments on the music and memories, completes this must-read volume. Here, in their own words and images, is the life and work of a band which has played the soundtrack of our lives for the last forty years.
Download or read book Rolling Stones Some Girls written by Cyrus R.K. Patell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >
Download or read book The Rolling Stones Best of ABKCO Years written by The Rolling Stones and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 50th anniversary collectible hard cover edition contains full guitar TAB transcriptions for 50 early Stones classics from their ABKCO years. These are all-new arrangements featuring the most accurate transcriptions for all of Keith Richards, Brian Jones, and Mick Taylor's legendary guitar parts. The book also comes with a section of the most classic Keith riffs. The songs within are selected from 12 x 5, Aftermath, Beggars Banquet, Between the Buttons, Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass), December's Children (and Everybody's), Flowers, Hot Rocks 1964--1971, Let It Bleed, Metamorphosis, Sticky Fingers, Their Satanic Majesties Request, and more! Titles: * 19th Nervous Breakdown * 2000 Light Years from Home * As Tears Go By * Backstreet Girl * Bitch * Brown Sugar * Can't You Hear Me Knocking * Child of the Moon * Country Honk * Dandelion * Dead Flowers * Dear Doctor * Factory Girl * Get Off of My Cloud * Gimme Shelter * Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? * Heart of Stone * Honky Tonk Women * I'm Free * It's All Over Now * Jig-Saw Puzzle * Jumpin' Jack Flash * Lady Jane * The Last Time * Let It Bleed * Let's Spend the Night Together * Live with Me * Memo from Turner * Midnight Rambler * Monkey Man * Mother's Little Helper * No Expectations * Out of Time * Paint It, Black * Parachute Woman * Play with Fire * Ruby Tuesday * Salt of the Earth * (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction * She's a Rainbow * The Spider and the Fly * Stray Cat Blues * Street Fighting Man * Stupid Girl * Sway * Sympathy for the Devil * Under My Thumb * Wild Horses * You Can’t Always Get What You Want * You Got the Silver
Download or read book The Rolling Stone Book of Rock Video written by Michael Shore and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life written by Keith Richards and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2010-11-12 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited autobiography of Keith Richards, guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life. Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones's first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to his enduring image as an outlaw folk hero. Creating immortal riffs like the ones in "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women." His relationship with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the U.S., isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Marriage, family, solo albums and Xpensive Winos, and the road that goes on forever. With his trademark disarming honesty, Keith Richard brings us the story of a life we have all longed to know more of, unfettered, fearless, and true.
Download or read book Old Gods Almost Dead written by Stephen Davis and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2001-12-11 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed, bestselling rock-and-roll biographer delivers the first complete, unexpurgated history of the world’s greatest band. The saga of the Rolling Stones is the central epic in rock mythology. From their debut as the intermission band at London’s Marquee Club in 1962 through their latest record—setting Bridges to Babylon world tour, the Rolling Stones have defined a musical genre and experienced godlike adulation, quarrels, addiction, legal traumas, and descents into madness and death_while steadfastly refusing to fade away. Now Stephen Davis, the New York Times bestselling author of Hammer of the Gods and Walk This Way, who has followed the Stones for three decades, presents their whole story, replete with vivid details of the Stones’ musical successes_and personal excesses. Born into the wartime England of air-raid sirens, bombing raids, and strict rationing, the Rolling Stones came of age in the 1950s, as American blues and pop arrived in Europe. Among London’s most ardent blues fans in the early 1960s was a short blond teenage guitar player named Brian Jones, who hooked up with a lorry driver’s only son, Charlie Watts, a jazz drummer. At the same time, popular and studious Michael Philip Jagger–who, as a boy, bawled out a phonetic version of “La Bamba” with an eye-popping intensity that scared his parents–began sharing blues records with a primary school classmate, Keith “Ricky” Richards, a shy underachiever, whose idol was Chuck Berry. In 1962 the four young men, joined by Bill Perks (later Wyman) on bass, formed a band rhythm and blues band, which Brian Jones named the “the Rollin’ Stones” in honor of the Muddy Waters blues classic. Using the biography of the Rolling Stones as a narrative spine, Old God Almost Dead builds a new, multilayered version of the Stones’ story, locating the band beyond the musical world they dominated and showing how they influenced, and were influenced by, the other artistic movements of their era: the blues revival, Swinging London, the Beats, Bob Dylan’s Stones-inspired shift from protest to pop, Pop Art and Andy Warhol’s New York, the “Underground” politics of the 1960s, Moroccan energy and European orientalism, Jamaican reggae, the Glam and Punk subcultures, and the technologic advances of the video and digital revolution. At the same time, Old Gods Almost Dead documents the intense backstage lives of the Stones: the feuds, the drugs, the marriages, and the affairs that inspired and informed their songs; and the business of making records and putting on shows. The first new biography of the Rolling Stones since the early 1980s, Old Gods Almost Dead is the most comprehensive book to date, and one of the few to cover all the band’s members. Illustrated throughout with photos of pivotal moments, it is a celebration of the Rolling Stones as an often courageous, often foolish gang of artists who not only showed us new worlds, but new ways of living in them. It is a saga as raunchily, vibrantly entertaining as the Stones themselves.
Download or read book Rolling Stones written by Jill C. Wheeler and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the Rolling Stones highlights the band's career and cultural impact. Readers learn about the Rolling Stones' early days playing blues covers, the rebellious spirit that gave the band its identity, and the creation of iconic albums. Engaging text, historic photographs, and sidebars bring the story to life. Features include a timeline, glossary, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book The Operators written by Michael Hastings and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the Netflix original movie War Machine, starring Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton, and Ben Kingsley From the author of The Last Magazine, a shocking behind-the-scenes portrait of our military commanders, their high-stake maneuvers, and the politcal firestorm that shook the United States. In the shadow of the hunt for Bin Laden and the United States’ involvement in the Middle East, General Stanley McChrystal, the commanding general of international and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was living large. His loyal staff liked to call him a “rock star.” During a spring 2010 trip, journalist Michael Hastings looked on as McChrystal and his staff let off steam, partying and openly bashing the Obama administration. When Hastings’s article appeared in Rolling Stone, it set off a political firestorm: McChrystal was unceremoniously fired. In The Operators, Hastings picks up where his Rolling Stone coup ended. From patrol missions in the Afghan hinterlands to senior military advisors’ late-night bull sessions to hotel bars where spies and expensive hookers participate in nation-building, Hastings presents a shocking behind-the-scenes portrait of what he fears is an unwinnable war. Written in prose that is at once eye-opening and other times uncannily conversational, readers of No Easy Day will take to Hastings’ unyielding first-hand account of the Afghan War and its cast of players.
Download or read book The Little Book of the Rolling Stones written by Malcolm Croft and published by Little Books of Music. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bite-sized collection of more than 170 quotes by and about the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band. "There's the sun, there's the moon, there's the air we breathe, and then there's the Rolling Stones." --Keith Richards. Fans who endorse the legendary guitarist's sentiments will pore through every engaging quote in this collection, which shows exactly why the Stones remain in the spotlight after 50 years of performing. In addition to the band members, quotes come from such figures as producer Andrew Oldham and Paul McCartney ("I see a good little rock 'n' roll band--not as good as the Beatles, but good.")
Download or read book The Rolling Stones Hot Rocks 1964 1971 written by The Rolling Stones and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hot Rocks was the first, and, four decades later, remains the most significant Rolling Stones compilation ever released. It is The Rolling Stones' biggest-selling album---more than 12 million copies! This book features all 21 tracks from this landmark recording--fully transcribed for bass! Hot Rocks' traces the development of the songwriting team of Jagger and Richards. The album begins with the early cover recording of "Time Is on My Side" and then proceeds chronologically through most of the band's biggest hits from its first decade. Titles: * 19th Nervous Breakdown * As Tears Go By * Brown Sugar * Get Off of My Cloud * Gimme Shelter * Heart of Stone * Honky Tonk Women * (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction * Jumpin' Jack Flash * Let's Spend the Night Together * Midnight Rambler * Mother's Little Helper * Paint It, Black * Play With Fire * Ruby Tuesday * Street Fighting Man * Sympathy For The Devil * Time Is On My Side * Under My Thumb * Wild Horses * You Can't Always Get What You Want
Download or read book Trouble Girls written by Barbara O'Dair and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by leading music critics look at the most important female rock musicians, singers, and groups, with profiles of Bonnie Raitt, Carol King, Tina Turner, Janis Joplin, Madonna, and many others.
Download or read book Love You Live Rolling Stones written by Marilou Regan and published by Fanfare Pub. This book was released on 2002 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is a collection of memoirs, memorabillia and photographs presented by Rolling Stones fans. It features over 80 stories from 20 countries detailing some of the most important events in the history of rock 'n' roll.
