For Britain in the 1960’s a new way of life was emerging.  Politics, music and art were heading off into uncharted territory and society was busy trying to work out a response.

It was therefore little wonder then when the Rolling Stones burst onto the scene in early 1963 that the only way the media could respond was to attempt to lampoon them through cartoons. The length of their hair, their backstage antics, their clothes, and the screaming fans were all ideal fodder for cartoonists to set about trivializing the band, while at the same time to writing them off as just another teenage rage.

But the Stones proved anything but  short lived, and the same time the cartoonists fascination has also endured so that they have become one of the very few bands in the world to have commanded this level of attention.

The Stones: A History in Cartoons is not just a history of the band but it is also a demonstration of the changing attitudes towards a generation that believed hair should be long and skirts should be short. 

 

Bill Wyman gives his own unique take on life with the Rolling Stones and we are treated to a comprehensive collection of the funniest cartoons ever created about the pop scene.

 

Bill, himself no stranger to the sarcasm and wit of the cartoonist pen, puts the illustrations into the context of what was actually happening when they were drawn and gives us an insight of what it must be like to live in the media spotlight 24/7.

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