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Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones' inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool in 1969. He lived with them throughout their 1969 American tour, staying up all night together listening to blues, talking about music, ingesting drugs, and consorting with groupies. His thrilling account culminates with their final concert at Altamont Speedway-a nightmare of beating, stabbing, and killing that would signal the end of a generation's dreams of peace and freedom. But while this book renders in fine detail the entire history of the Stones, paying special attention to the tragedy of Brian Jones, it is about much more than a writer and a rock band. It has been called-by Harold Brodkey and Robert Stone, among others-the best book ever written about the sixties. In a new afterword, Booth explains why this book took fifteen years to write-an astonishing story of drugs, jails, and disasters.

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[Stanley Booth's] affection for the band did not keep him from writing about the seamy underside of the Stones' world in the sixties...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. -- New York Times Book Review 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. -- Los Angeles Herald Examiner Stanley Booth's book is the only one I can read and say, 'Yeah, that's how it was.' -- Keith Richards 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 '60s, there is nothing on paper that so evokes those days and nights. -- Robert Stone, National Book Award-winning author The one authentic masterpiece of rock 'n' roll writing. -- Peter Guralnick, New York Times bestselling author

The one authentic masterpiece of rock 'n' roll writing. -- Peter Guralnick, New York Times bestselling author 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. -- Los Angeles Herald Examiner If you've never bought a book about rock and roll, no matter--this is the one you've been waiting for. -- Playboy 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 '60s, there is nothing on paper that so evokes those days and nights. -- Robert Stone, National Book Award-winning author [Stanley Booth's] affection for the band did not keep him from writing about the seamy underside of the Stones' world in the sixties...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. -- New York Times Book Review Stanley Booth's book is the only one I can read and say, 'Yeah, that's how it was.' -- Keith Richards

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Stanley Booth is the author of Rythm Oil: A Journey through the Music of the American South and Keith, as well as other books about the Rolling Stones. He has written for Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Playboy. He lives in Brunswick, Georgia. Nick Sullivan has narrated audiobooks for over twenty years and has recorded over four hundred titles. An Audie Award winner, he is also the recipient of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards. His TV and film credits include The Good Wife, The Affair, Bull, Boardwalk Empire, 30 Rock, Our Idiot Brother, and Private Life.

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