"Doesn't forget the music"
Mr. Richards goes into fantastic detail about the music that influenced the early days of the rolling stones. If you want to know why he thinks a particular musician was worthy of emulation it is all clearly spelled out in this book. He is brutally candid about other members of the stones, in a way that probably reveals about as much as can be revealed about Mr. Richards himself. Some of it is flattering to his bandmates, some to himself and it is gratifying to hear.