Best Book on The Rolling Stones

just getting into the Stones, with lots of books on them .
I just wanted some help on which you think are the best read
Thanks

 

Anthony Scaduto
&
Stanley Booth
These two authors spring to mind.

 

A journey through America with The Rolling Stones by Robert Greenfield is a longstanding favourite of mine..

 

My favorites are Bill Wyman's book, "Stone Alone" and Stanley Booth's book, "The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones."

 

Stanley Booth seconded

 

Booth all the way...

 

This one is great by Greg Prevost and Andy Babiuk of the Chesterfield Kings

 

If you're not scared, search up Rolling Stones Album by Album thread on this here forum. Hours and hours of happy reading, and you will learn a lot.

Also, agreed that LIFE is essential reading for any rock and roll fan.

 

"Keith Richards - The Biography", by Victor Bockris, is a good one, too.

 

"According to the Rolling Stones " is one of the best..but the one to have is the Bill Wyman's "Rolling with the Stones "...

 

I'll have to go with both of Bill Wyman's books. Lots of fun to read. An honorable mention should also go to Stanley Booth's book.

 

Yes this Is a high quality, meticulously researched book. A great new angle on the stones. Heaven for a tech geek but also a great read besides...

 

It's not exactly literary genius but The Spanish Tony book is an absolute riot of a read...

Keith has never denied its contents either...

 

My favourite - by far - is `Under Their Thumb' by Bill German. Not exactly a
book about the Rolling Stones, but.....immensely enjoyable reading.

 

The three put out by the band: A Life on the Road, 50, and According to...

 

Thirded. One of the best rock'n'roll books ever written.

 

I also greatly enjoyed Sam Cutler's book, You Can't Always Get What You Want. He was their tour manager on the tour that led up to Altamont. It's not a great piece of literature or anything, but it's a totally riveting read—the perfect companion piece to the Gimme Shelter documentary.

 

The Stanley Booth one is great, and I also liked Stephen Davis' s Old Gods Almost Dead. It's a little more juicer/ gossipy then some people may like, but it's good overview, and you realize how amazing it's been that the group has been together for so long. They been bordering on the precipice of breaking up since the mid-60's drug busts.

 

Another one that I like is Rocks Off - 50 Tracks That Tell The Story Of The Rolling Stones by Bill Janovitz. It has good background information about the tracks the he selected.

In addition, he also wrote the 33 1/3 book about Exile On Main Street which is also pretty good.

 

..for the beginnings the Jimmy Phelge book "phelge's Stones" .......direct from "Edith grove"....!!!

 

I've read a number of books on the Stones, including Stone Alone and Life. I would go with Booth and Greenfield.

 

Life by Keith
Stanley Booth
Spanish Tony

 

A great read with lots of fascinating details from inside the hive.

 

The Stanley Booth Book
The Robert Greenfield Book
"Up and Down With The Rolling Stones" by Tony Sanchez
"Stone Alone" by Bill Wyman
One about Brian Jones from about 10 years ago, can't remember the title sorry.
...and of course "Life" by Keith, which ties everything up.

Mentions also to Bill Graham's and Andy Kershaw's autobiographies, which include good sections about particular Stones tours

I've read loads of Stones books. Don't bother with the Andrew Oldham ones ("Stoned" and "2 Stoned") as the are very prolix.

My real favourite is the Tony Sanchez (Spanish Tony) one, it's a rip-snortin roller coastin read. I read this at age 14 approx., along with "Moon The Loon" by Dougal Butler, which is a similar book to the Spanish Tony one. Both Butler and Sanchez were minders / gofers with chequered pasts. Both books influenced me a great deal!