Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40 year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones, by Stephen Davis (HC, 2001, 588 pages, $3)
Davis has followed the band for three decades. He writes both about their music and their private lives. He calls his book a "celebration of the Rolling Stones as an often courageous, often foolish gang of artists."
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Blown Away: The Rolling Stones and the Death of the Sixties, by A. E. Hotchner (HC, 1990, $3)
Four months after the joyful experience of Woodstock came the Rolling Stones' free concert at the Altamont Speedway. Only months before Brian Jones has been found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool. Janice is dead. Jimmy is dead . Sharon Tate is dead. The Vietnam War is killing and killing, both soldiers and civilians. Specifically this is the story of the days leading up to Brian Jones' death, but it is also the story of the band, and of those terrible and crazy times.
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According to the Rolling Stones, edited by Dora Loewensteirn. (TPB, 2003, $2.50) The editor is the daughter of the Stones' business manager, and has been part of the Stones family for nearly all her life. Here the Stones "tell the history of the band the way they see it, and the way they remember it".
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Mick Jagger, Everybody's Lucifer, by Tony Scaduto (HC, 1974, $1.50)
Look for these books in the music section.
