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Granta 12: The True Adventures of The Rolling Stones

Granta 12: The True Adventures of The Rolling Stones

Bernard Crick
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Stanley Booth was meant to be the authorised biographer of the Rolling Stones, but, shortly after he began writing in 1968, things started to go wrong. The American concert tour that he joined ended in murder at a race track in the Californian desert, and the time that followed – in which Booth was assaulted by Hell’s Angels, beaten up by American soldiers, run over by a lorry, imprisoned, and subjected to epileptic fits while trying to withdraw from drugs – was characterised only be confusion, loss and disillusionment. Completed fifteen years after it was begun, ‘The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones’ is only in part about the group of musicians it depicts. It is also a social history and a confession – a chronicle, in the tradition of Michael Herr’s Dispatches, of people united in a curious commitment to their own destruction.


Stanley Booth: The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
Raymond Carver: The Cabin
Richard Ford: Winterkill
Carolyn Osborn: Cowboy Movie
Jayne Anne Phillips: Danner, 1965
David Caute: The Guardian and Sarah Tisdall
Günter Grass: Resistance
Breyten Breytenbach: Prison Scribe
Peter Davis: Christmas in Nicaragua
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Julio Cortázar, 1914-84
James Walcott: New York
Language
English
Pages
252
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Granta Books
Release
June 01, 1984
ISBN
0140075658
ISBN 13
9780140075656

Granta 12: The True Adventures of The Rolling Stones

Bernard Crick
3.3/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Stanley Booth was meant to be the authorised biographer of the Rolling Stones, but, shortly after he began writing in 1968, things started to go wrong. The American concert tour that he joined ended in murder at a race track in the Californian desert, and the time that followed – in which Booth was assaulted by Hell’s Angels, beaten up by American soldiers, run over by a lorry, imprisoned, and subjected to epileptic fits while trying to withdraw from drugs – was characterised only be confusion, loss and disillusionment. Completed fifteen years after it was begun, ‘The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones’ is only in part about the group of musicians it depicts. It is also a social history and a confession – a chronicle, in the tradition of Michael Herr’s Dispatches, of people united in a curious commitment to their own destruction.


Stanley Booth: The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
Raymond Carver: The Cabin
Richard Ford: Winterkill
Carolyn Osborn: Cowboy Movie
Jayne Anne Phillips: Danner, 1965
David Caute: The Guardian and Sarah Tisdall
Günter Grass: Resistance
Breyten Breytenbach: Prison Scribe
Peter Davis: Christmas in Nicaragua
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Julio Cortázar, 1914-84
James Walcott: New York
Language
English
Pages
252
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Granta Books
Release
June 01, 1984
ISBN
0140075658
ISBN 13
9780140075656

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