The Stones: The Acclaimed Biography. Philip Norman

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      First published by Elm Tree Books/Hamish Hamilton 1984

      Paperback edition published by Penguin Books 1993 Updated edition by Sidgwick and Jackson published by Pan Macmillan 2001

      This updated edition published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2012

      FIRST EDITION

      © Philip Norman 1984, 1993, 2001, 2012

      A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library

      Philip Norman asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN 9780007477067

      Ebook Edition © September 2012 ISBN: 9780007477074 Version 2016-11-01

       To Angela Miller

       CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Foreword

      PART ONE

      1 ‘I was schooled with a strap right across my back’

       2 ‘Well, the joint was rockin’ …’

       3 ‘I belong to you and you belong to me, so come on’

       4 ‘Beatle your Rolling Stone hair’

PART TWO

       5 ‘My client has no fleas’

       6 ‘Everybody’s got something to hide’

       7 ‘It’s down to me; the change has come …’

       8 ‘The Oscar Wilde mistake’

       9 ‘A Mars bar fills that gap’

       PART THREE

       10 ‘Sing this all together – see what happens’

       11 ‘There’s just no room for a street-fighting man …’

       12 ‘He hath awakened from the dream of life’

       13 ‘We’re gonna kiss you goodbye’

       14 ‘The Stones like France tremendously’

       15 ‘Black and Blue’

       16 ‘God Speed the Rolling Stones’

       17 ‘Then there were four’

       18 ‘Some girls give me children …’

       Plate Section

       Afterword

       Author’s Note

       Index

       Also by Philip Norman

       About the Publisher

       FOREWORD

      I began researching The Stones in 1981, just after publication of my Beatles biography, Shout! I’d never been a particular admirer of the Rolling Stones, quite the opposite in fact, but chronicling the Beatles had shown me how closely the two bands’ histories were intertwined; so, having ‘done’ the Liverpudlians it seemed logical to move on to the Londoners.

      As a journalist I’d interviewed the Stones only once, in 1965 when I was on a small evening paper in north-east England and they appeared at the ABC cinema in Stockton-on-Tees. It was the zenith of their British notoriety, just post-‘Satisfaction’; I expected surly Neanderthals but, even to a provincial nobody like me, they were perfectly nice. I talked to Mick СКАЧАТЬ