The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years by Christopher Sandford – review
The Rolling Stones’ merchandise, rather than their music, has ensured their survival.
Popular culture gobbles up its favourites and almost immediately spits them out, so how come the Rolling Stones – who until very recently still creakily cavorted through ghoulish parodies of the songs they composed half a century ago – haven’t been expelled into oblivion? Mick Jagger now dyes his hair a fetching shade of chestnut; Keith Richards, having miraculously survived the decades in which he used his body as a lab for testing toxins, looks, as Elton John cattily put it, like “an arthritic monkey”. Yet the more grotesque they become, the more fondly we tolerate their prolonged adolescence
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Editor: How many of us were inspired to pick up the guitar or find a drumset to play to the music of the Rolling Stones? Back in the 60′s and 70′s, so many saw the “Stones” as the Rock & Roll band of the era. The group all others had to measure up to. Has it really been 50 years?
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