The classic book about the Stones! I finally managed to read it. Tony Sanchez was Keith Richard's dealer for eight years and he's got quite a lot of stories to tell. Interesting view at the sixties and the seventies. Lots of junkie-stuff, juicy details about Mick Jagger and the death of Brian Jones. Great, hard-hitting writing and funny pictures. If you have a slight interest in pop-culture you absolutely don't wanna miss this one!

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The old Beatles vs.Stones-debate is lame by the way. It's like Kiss vs. Ac/Dc in the eighties. Fuck, Kiss were a bunch of guys dressing up with make-up and expensive special-effects. Compare that to Ac/DC! Sure, the Beatles... They were brilliant too. But the Beatles were pop while the Stones were nasty! And the guys from Liverpool were into merchandising and creating a fake image. They did all these stupid movies and they were basically the first boygroup. The Stones were something else. They had a much deeper understanding of spacing out and throwing yourself into the sound. I'm listening to an old collection of their classics right and I'm not even old enough to get sentimental. But it's just so much more radical than what Avril or whatever her name is puts out.

The story behind "Street Fighting Man" is kind of nice. Mick Jagger got trapped in one big marsh. When people recognized him, people wanted autographs and forgot their political motives. The security had to get him out there. What a great song. It's playing so much with the expectation of the listener. You keep expecting a different sort of chorus, but it doesn't happen. The congas come in and the whole thing really makes you listen to the lyrics and all that. This is where Ton, Steine, Scherben comes from "The time is right for revolution." That's the spirit. Uh-oh, "Midnight Rambler" coming up.