The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

De: Stanley Booth

Narrado por: Nick Sullivan

Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones’ inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool, in 1969. He lived with them throughout their 1969 American tour, staying up all night together listening to blues, talking about music, ingesting drugs, and consorting with groupies. His thrilling account culminates with their final concert at Altamont Speedway - a nightmare of beating, stabbing, and killing that would signal the end of a generation’s dreams of peace and freedom. But while this book renders in fine detail the entire history of the Stones, paying special attention to the tragedy of Brian Jones, it is about much more than a writer and a rock band. It has been called - by Harold Brodkey and Robert Stone, among others - the best book ever written about the '60s. In a new afterword, Booth explains why this book took 15 years to write - an astonishing story of drugs, jails, and disasters.

©2000 Stanley Booth (P)2013 Blackstone Audio

Time Machine

The book is a time machine to a tome not unlike our own. Political turmoil, clashing values, and cultural angst has a soundtrack.

Superlative rendering of a singular story.

Sullivan reading brings the individual characters to life, particularly Mick and Keith. Highly recommend this audiobook if you're at all interested in the early Stones (through Altamont).

All hail the stones.

The rolling stones are one of the best rock bands to ever exist, this is a great read.

Hands down the best performance I’ve listened to.

Great story, great performance. Will probably listen to again. Very impressed, a book you can’t stop listening to.

The book is meh

The book is not nealry as interesting as I'd hoped. The narrator sounds out of place at first but he grows on you and he does a good job with the accents. It really is just a long book with very little of anything actually happening. I think a person who is a big Stones fan may enjoy it more.