50 Licks: Myths and Stories from Half a Century of the Rolling Stones
Author(s): Peter Fornatale
On July 12, 1962, London's Marquee Club debuted a new act, a blues-inflected rock band named after a Muddy Waters song - The Rolling Stones. They were a hard-edged band with a flair for the dramatic, styling themselves as the devil's answer to the sainted Beatles. A young, inexperienced producer named Andrew Loog Oldham first heard the band at a session he remembers with four words: 'I fell in love.' Though unfamiliar with such basic industry practices as mixing a recording, he made a brilliant decision - he pitched the band to a studio that had passed on the Beatles. Afraid to make the same mistake twice, they signed the Stones, and began a history-making career. This is just one of the 50 classic stories that make up 50 Licks. Many are never-before told, some are from exclusive interviews - including with elusive bassist Bill Wyman - and all are illustrated and told by the people who lived them. Half a century on, the Rolling Stones are still the greatest band working. And this is the book to commemorate their unparalleled achievement in rock music.
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The illustrated, memorable, and rock-and-roll stories of the Rolling Stones, as they tour for the 50th year - featuring never-before-seen interviews with the band.
The disc jockey who helped spin New York through the '60s. Dennis Hamill, Daily News Pete Fornatale is a great music historian and one of the best broadcasters in America. His book Back to the Garden actually made me feel like I attended Woodstock myself. I recommend it highly. Brian Wilson Fresh insights from the artists make Back to the Garden an important read. Boston Globe I have turned down tickets to every Woodstock there's been, for the same reason: rock 'n' roll and camping have nothing in common. If you'd like to make up your own mind, tune in to Back to the Garden, Pete Fornatale's fine history of whatever hit 'em up there (in addition to the brown acid or brown rice, whichever it was). From Richie Havens to the endless repercussions, this is the tale...and even a veteran antihippie like me has to recognize it as an indispensable document of rock history. Dave Marsh
Pete Fornatale was until his death in 2012 an award-winning broadcaster who has been a fixture on the New York radio scene for the past 40 years. He is most recently the author of Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock and How It Changed A Generation. 50 Licks is hes last book. Bernard M. Corbett is the radio voice of Harvard University football and Boston University hockey. He is the author and coauthor of fifteen books. He lives in Stoneham, Massachusetts and is a lifelong Rolling Stones fan.
General Fields
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- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : 31 January 2013
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 March 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : Colour, completely integrated
- : 288
- : 782.421660922
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Peter Fornatale