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EAN : 9782258202832
Shaping : RELIE-ALB.
Pages : 200
Size : 140 x 180 mm
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Release date : 13/04/2023
At a time when some songs have unexpected political involvements, François Salaün suggests to dive back into the history of this mythical band, in the light of the contemporary morality.
After a 60-years-career, the Stones still have their devoted public and are still being written about. Let’s hope that it will last!
Confirmed fan and specialist of the Rolling Stones, François Salaün offers us a very documented book, fuelled by interviews of this artists, press reviews and books about them along with the lyrics of their songs.
A compact size with a text rhythmed by fifty colourful visuals by Lulu la Nantaise.
At the end of the book, a proposition of the best soundtrack to accompany the reader!
In June 2022, after two successive pauses on its latest tour due to pandemic, the mythical British rock-band started its Sixty European Tour, celebrating at the same time the sixtieth anniversary of the Rolling Stones.
Even though the historical drummer Charlie Watts retired a few months earlier, it is not the...
In June 2022, after two successive pauses on its latest tour due to pandemic, the mythical British rock-band started its Sixty European Tour, celebrating at the same time the sixtieth anniversary of the Rolling Stones.
Even though the historical drummer Charlie Watts retired a few months earlier, it is not the only change that the biggest fans would notice. For the first time, one of the most emblematic songs of the Sticky Fingers album, “Brown Sugar”, has been deleted from the playlist. Mike Jagger even confessed to a journalist that, in hindsight, he would not have written such a song…
Has the hint of scandal that had built the legend of the Stones fade away over the years? What about those who built their myth on the liberty of outraging?
Their first manager had declared that “the Rolling Stones were not a band but a lifestyle”. François Salaün took this at face value and analyses in this book, through both the work and the private life of those tousled dandies, the evolution of our society during the last six decades.
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EAN : 9782258202832
Shaping : RELIE-ALB.
Pages : 200
Size : 140 x 180 mm
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