Beatles rolling stones book

The book speeds up once the 70s and 80s are reached, naturally because the beatles were no more. Bob bonis archive the lost beatles and rolling stones. This book looks at how, in the sixties, the beatles and the rolling stones were pitted against each other as rivals by the press, fans and, despite claims by both. This book takes a look at the beatles and the rolling stones from a unique black perspective. The rolling stones kindle edition by derogatis, jim, kot, greg. In 5 decades of my readings, i have rarely come across a book that is so well researched and documented a must read for the fans as also everyone interested in the entertainment industry. He promoted the rolling stones as the nasty counterpoint to the beatles by having the band pose. The beatles were thugs who were put across as nice blokes, and the rolling stones were gentlemen. The most important, neverbeforeseen archive of rock and roll photographs ever discovered. It pays tribute to both super groups while showing the honest and true fact that the groups were simply british white artists who followed the leads of their idols of the music world who were profoundly black artists in america. The official release date for the rolling stones gear book was tuesday february 4 th, 2014. Sullivan made rock a mainstay on his program after the beatles, welcoming the rolling stones. His critically acclaimed books beatles gear 2001 and rolling stones gear 2014 are books that manage to be both historical documents and an entertaining read.

Beatles book is one even most beatles fans are unaware of. Stones is balanced, informed, yet still passionateeven the most gnarled and intransigent veterans of the debate will emerge enlightened by this book. New rolling stones on air book traces rise of greatest rockn. John mcmillians book dissects the legendary rivalry between the beatles and the rolling stones. Ron managed the beatles for abkco, his legendary uncle allen kleins company for many years and independently managed the rolling stones till the 70s. Its taken 9 years to finish this mammoth 672page book and i thank the rolling stones as well as the hundreds of people who helped make this historic document possible. See all 6 formats and editions hide other formats and editions.

Beatles vs the rolling stones hardcover may 24, 2000 by jim derogatis author, greg kot author 3. The beatles and the rolling stones represent two sides of one of the twentieth centurys greatest. I had a little schoolexercise book where i wrote those lyrics down. In the 1960s an epic battle was waged between the two biggest bands in the worldthe cleancut, moptopped beatles and the badboy rolling stones. In fact, the most compelling beatles books tend to be the ones that you. However, the author should have been a little more specific. The beatles have just ended, and rolling stone founder wenner sits down with lennon for a confessional that doubles as harsh attack, soul purging, study in how songs came to be, and, in the end, a. Lennon is more hurt than angry, one senses, as he lobs stones at the. A taleofthetape look at who was really the best using categories like innovation, durability and diversity, we make the ageold rock debate into a bestof. The rolling stones celebrated their 50th anniversary in the summer of 2012 by releasing the book the rolling stones. Andy is also the author of the book the story of paul bigsby. Tour manager, the bob bonis archive represents what experts have called. The rolling stones hated to be compared with the beatles, but after 50. Two of the worlds preeminent music journalists tackl.

Lennon is more hurt than angry, one senses, as he lobs stones at the stained glass windows of beatledom. The rolling stones are an english rock band formed in london in 1962. What fueled rocks greatest rivalry john mcmillians book dissects the legendary rivalry between the beatles and the rolling stones. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the beatles vs. Father of the modern electric solidbody guitar, published in february 2009. Stones, john mcmillan unpacks the most legendary rock rivalry of all time. The author does hammer on the point that the stones were inspired by the beatles evolution from rubber soul through revolver to sergeant pepper, and back again through their later albums, notably the harder rocking white album.