Everything that is exciting and decadent about rock music is epitomised by the Rolling Stones. Over four decades they have defined rock and roll excess, been imitated, sneered at, and written off. They have survived changes in fashion and taste as well as self inflicted traumas to become a global phenomenum. Watched in concert by more people than any band in history they are an inspiration and an institution. Anyone who has ever picked up a guitar has imagined themselves to be Keith. Every singer with a band has dreamed of being Mick. And it’s every rhythm section’s dream to swing like Bill and Charlie……..and to remain so cool while doing it.

Courting adversity, taking risks and generating more media hysteria than any other band …….The Rolling Stones are Rock and Roll

Drawing on Bill Wyman’s enormous personal archive. This is the first complete biography of “the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world” from the inside. It is illustrated with over 2,000 photographs taken by Bill and with some of the world’s greatest photographers. It has been said that if you can remember the 60s you weren’t really there. Well you can if you kept a diary, which Bill did before he joined the Stones and has kept it ever since.

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The daft UK publisher has remaindered it

It’s an absolutely fabulous record of rock’s most enduring outfit.

San Francisco Chronicle.

Rolling Stones aficionados will treat Rolling with the Stones with the reverence of a sacred text and rock music historians will find it an essential reference tool.

Variety

Wyman’s narrative, adapted from his comprehensive diaries is awash with delightful detail. What makes this book so interesting is its disregard for hindsight.

Daily Telegraph.

A fascinating insight into the band and the times in which it evolved. It’s a riveting read even if you aren’t a fan.

Daily Express

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