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A review by iswendle
According to the Rolling Stones by Mick Jagger
4.0
A history of the origin of rock and roll and the longest running act of it. In a loosely connected plethora of interview snippets with the members of the Rolling Stones, a certain common thread emerges. As a young amateur guitar player it is amazing to see how such a legendary act came to be (and so long has been).
I cannot really find more to say about the book; it is set up in the only way a book about the Stones could be made. Each member is cited individually in snippets of probably hundreds of interviews, and in between each chapter someone from the industry sketches some context. You don't necessarily learn a lot more about the history of the Stones (at least not chronologically, factually, or precisely). You don't even learn much about how they write or play. That sounds negative, and it might be, but what you instead learn was to me what made the book a blast to read: you get a feel for what made the Rolling Stones great.
The fact that these 4 musicians are all completely different people is already hard to believe for a group that makes music together for 40 years in a row. But then you also realise that all 4 members are incredibly stubborn, they are stuck in their own ways, they hardly ever come to one another, they are just their own selves. And out of that friction, came rock and roll.
I cannot really find more to say about the book; it is set up in the only way a book about the Stones could be made. Each member is cited individually in snippets of probably hundreds of interviews, and in between each chapter someone from the industry sketches some context. You don't necessarily learn a lot more about the history of the Stones (at least not chronologically, factually, or precisely). You don't even learn much about how they write or play. That sounds negative, and it might be, but what you instead learn was to me what made the book a blast to read: you get a feel for what made the Rolling Stones great.
The fact that these 4 musicians are all completely different people is already hard to believe for a group that makes music together for 40 years in a row. But then you also realise that all 4 members are incredibly stubborn, they are stuck in their own ways, they hardly ever come to one another, they are just their own selves. And out of that friction, came rock and roll.