Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones The acclaimed, bestselling rock-and-roll biographer delivers the first complete, unexpurgated history of the world’s greatest band. Now Stephen Davis, the New York Times bestselling author of Hammer of the Gods and Wa
| TITLE | : | Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.74 (482 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0767903129 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Hardcover |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 624 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2001-11-06 |
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The acclaimed, bestselling rock-and-roll biographer delivers the first complete, unexpurgated history of the world’s greatest band.
The saga of the Rolling Stones is the central epic in rock mythology. From their debut as the intermission band at London’s Marquee Club in 1962 through their latest record—setting Bridges to Babylon world tour, the Rolling Stones have defined a musical genre and experienced godlike adulation, quarrels, addiction, legal traumas, and descents into madness and death_while steadfastly refusing to fade away. Now Stephen Davis, the New York Times bestselling author of Hammer of the Gods and Walk This Way, who has followed the Stones for three decades, presents their whole story, replete with vivid details of the Stones’ musical successes_and personal excesses.
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Editorial : From Publishers Weekly
In 1985's bestselling The Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga, rock biographer Davis shocked and entertained readers with the raunchy details of the band's backstage exploits. In this latest unauthorized biography, he once again details the "musical successes and personal excesses" but fails to offer any new insights into one of the world's greatest bands. (Stanley Booth's 1985 The True History of the Rolling Stones covers much of the same ground). In the first bio on the Stones in more than a decade, Davis begins with the band's first big break as the intermission act at London's Marquee Club in 1962 and ends with their bloated global tours of the late 1990s. While Davis's pulpy narrative ("The smell of espresso is in the air, the smell of sex, the smell of suicide") provides an enjoyable recap and critique of the Stones' records and performances, he mi
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