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The Rolling Stones : a musical biography

By 1964 the United States had been "invaded" by a number of British bands, led by the Beatles. The Rolling Stones were seen as more rebellious and rowdy than the Beatles--they were the "bad boys" as opposed to the "good boys"--And this reputation only served to enhance their popularity with their teenage fans. The Stones far outlasted the Beatles and all the other 1960s-era British bands. The Rolling Stones not only continued, but flourished, their tours drawing enormous crowds for decades
Print Book, English, ©2010
Greenwood, Santa Barbara, Calif., ©2010
collective biographies
xix, 159 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780313380341, 9780313380358, 0313380341, 031338035X
548555637
The young Stones
The British invasion
The Stones as a number one band, 1965-1967
Battles with the Beatles, drugs, and the estabishment
The Stones look to top themselves (again) : the Stones in the early 1970s
The Stones reinvented : Ronnie Wood is a permanent fixture, but Keith?
Individual efforts : are the Stones through?
From Voodoo Lounge to Bridges to Babylon and beyond
No security, 40 licks, and A bigger bang : the Stones won't slow down