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Rolling Stones - In The Beginning
Signed by Bill Wyman
Format: Hardback Book
Author: Bent Rej (foreword by Bill Wyman)
Description
In The Beginning presents, for the very first time, a unique collection of over 300 intimate, iconic, and rarely seen photographs of The Rolling Stones on the brink of superstardom in the mid-sixties.
Product Information
From March 1965 to May 1966, Danish photographer, Bent Rej, enjoyed unique access to The Rolling Stones, becoming one of the band's trusted inner circle of friends and associated, and accompanying them on their first full European outing: the Satisfaction tour. This extraordinary book presents Bent's collection of intimate photographs of this charismatic group of young musicians, and reveals a unique moment in the history of rock. Revelling in the first fruits of popular success (many of the photographs show the band members in their first homes), they are nevertheless unaware of what the future will hold. Only Mick Jagger begins to pose self-consciously in front of the lens, and it is only with hindsight that we realise that at this point The Rolling Stones are perched on the edge of the heights - or abyss - of superstardom.
Society saw them as unwashed and unkempt, and while they were far from unknown in 1965, the Rolling Stones were not yet the greatest rock and roll band in the world. Having already sent shockwaves through Britain and the United States, they were about to do the same in Europe. Bent Rej's extraordinary photography captures this critical moment onstage, backstage, in private, and in public; it shows young men very definitely on a mission. From being shocked by them the world was about to be awed by them - and life was never going to be the same again.
Reviews of the book
David Bale (Bexley Times 2.1.03) said: "Bill Wyman’s book 'Rolling With The Stones' is the man all over – hugely entertaining & hard to put down"
Bury Free Press (17.1.03) said: "A spectacular book. Bill Wyman’s remarkable life and career are now lavishly laid out in his latest book RoIling With The Stones. Using more than 2,000 pictures and 270,000 words, Bill describes his formative years in South London, his evacuation to Pembrokeshire during the Blitz, his National Service in Germany and the joining of and departure from the band that was to make him famous. Rolling With The Stones is a colourful and exciting history of one of Britain's best loved bands. Quotations from all the band members and the use of Bill's own archive material makes for interesting reading. The ups and downs, the brushes with the law and media the tours, the marriages, the houses. the contracts, the arguments. the parties and the plaudits are all included in this story of the Stones. A year-by-year journey illustrated with contemporary photographs make the book accessible and easy to dip into. At the height of their fame, the Stones could cause traffic to stop, teenagers to faint, fights to break out, and airlines to ban them"
Stones People Fan Magazine (February 2003) said: “Rolling with the Stones - is a true beauty and will undoubtedly become a best-seller. Each and every page is yet another surprise, with at times fascinating text as well as many interesting 'never heard before' statements or brief inside stories and 'never seen before' photos and images of hand-written or typed, sometimes very obscure notes, posters, newspaper articles, very old concert tickets, unique memorabilia, what have you. Tour road maps, tour schemes, recording details, it's all there. With a history that covers no less than forty years, it's unavoidable to find photos and stories that many have read about before in other books or magazines, but they are interwoven in such a way, that they can be looked upon from that different angle that makes the book so special It's a true long walk along memory lane. Bill also makes a point wherever he thinks he needs to as felt from his personal perspective, sometimes hidden in a brief remark or hidden behind a quotation mark.
The book is a real Stones book, because of all members the band have and had, Bill is the one who meticulously kept track of everything that happened within and around the Rolling Stones. During thirty years he was a complete insider as far as things occurred around the band. A librarian in the true sense of the word. Those who possess or have seen that rewind video may remember Bill acting as a museum tour guide. If anyone could start a Stones museum it would be Bill Wyman. This book gives you some idea of what you could find in such a museum. As Bill mentioned in one of the interviews, it is completely impossible to deal with all those memorabilia in just one book. Nevertheless, Rolling with the Stones will bring back many memories among older fans as well as fascination to younger fans.
For sure, Bill's new book is the visual proof of the most successful story ever of a bunch of original blues/jazz freaks who made it, and in fact are still making it, because in a sense we're all still rolling along with the Stones, forty years down the road.
Vicki Arkoff (US Amazon Site 17.2.03) said: "Rolling With The Stones," written by none other than former Rolling Stone bassist Bill Wyman himself, with the help of his "Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey" partner, Richard Havers and a staff of DK editors - is a thoroughly engaging insider story of the world's legendary bad-boy rock and roll band. Judging the book by its cover, one might mistakenly suspect it's a common as-told-to remembrance. To the contrary, the hefty book is a virtual mini-museum providing everything anyone could possibly want to know about the band, its history, its inspiration and its affect on cultural and social history. Drawing from his massive personal collection of Stones memorabilia, Wyman provides hundreds of one-of-a-kind artifacts, personal photos, and entries from decades of daily journals that he began writing as a child. There are more than 3,000 images here in all, amid hundreds of press clippings, set lists, quotations by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Brian Jones, Mick Taylor and Ronnie Wood, as well as their famous peers, political pundits and journalists. Wyman's personal account links the historical analysis, anecdotes and images, as if he's personally guiding readers through a scholarly scrapbook of sorts" (5 stars)
Michael Dwyer/Chris Hollow (Sunday Age Australia 23.2.03) said: "Wyman's just released his third book, Rolling With The Stones, a tome that is hell-bent on telling it "the way it was". Wyman is a born archivist, whose obsession with historical accuracy is evident in every meticulous diary entry, vintage poster, ticket stub, handwritten letter, magazine article, set list, Christmas card, birth, death and marriage certificate included among its 512 lavishly illustrated pages.
With his new book, Wyman is getting some of his own back. Its backbone is his huge wealth of hoarded merchandise and memorabilia, intriguing bits and pieces soberly squirreled away in hotel rooms while Jones, Jagger and Richards sparred with stardom, drugs and the occasional constable.
Rolling With The Stones itemises that tour's every date and venue, its song list, cash gross, support acts, reproduces handbills and photos and even records the band's luggage allowance. And that's from one of his patchy periods.”
Charles Shaar Murray (Independent 15.8.03) said: "A lavishly illustrated coffee-table tome entitled Rolling with the Stones.
Mark Brown (Rocky Mountain News USA 12.3.05) said: “Last year Bill Wyman did "Rolling With the Stones," a coffee table book that was a lovingly compiled history of the band, digging deep into the archives he has kept for more than 40 years.
Jo Jo LaPoo (Amazon 23.6.05) said: “I recently got this book as a gift, and it was very hard to find since it is apparently out of print. I'm still reading it, but if you want to know the absolute truth about "the greatest rock 'n' roll band on the planet" you need to buy it as soon as possible. Wyman was the band's biographer, since he wrote in his personal daily diaries everything and anything that happened to the band. Since I am still reading this beautiful coffee table book, I can't give away any secrets. However, even if I finished the book already, I would still insist on you buying this book and hearing all accounts from the inside - a band member, rather than the rock journalists who either loved them and wanted to be a part of them for merely idol worship; or those writers who hated the Stones. Bill Wyman wrote an unforgettable book, a must own, must read.”
Hardback book written by Bent Rej
Foreword by Bill Wyman, signed by Bill Wyman
Dimensions: 27cm wide & 33cm high x 3cm
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
Language: English
Signed by Bill Wyman
Format: Hardback Book
Author: Bent Rej (foreword by Bill Wyman)
Description
In The Beginning presents, for the very first time, a unique collection of over 300 intimate, iconic, and rarely seen photographs of The Rolling Stones on the brink of superstardom in the mid-sixties.
Product Information
From March 1965 to May 1966, Danish photographer, Bent Rej, enjoyed unique access to The Rolling Stones, becoming one of the band's trusted inner circle of friends and associated, and accompanying them on their first full European outing: the Satisfaction tour. This extraordinary book presents Bent's collection of intimate photographs of this charismatic group of young musicians, and reveals a unique moment in the history of rock. Revelling in the first fruits of popular success (many of the photographs show the band members in their first homes), they are nevertheless unaware of what the future will hold. Only Mick Jagger begins to pose self-consciously in front of the lens, and it is only with hindsight that we realise that at this point The Rolling Stones are perched on the edge of the heights - or abyss - of superstardom.
Society saw them as unwashed and unkempt, and while they were far from unknown in 1965, the Rolling Stones were not yet the greatest rock and roll band in the world. Having already sent shockwaves through Britain and the United States, they were about to do the same in Europe. Bent Rej's extraordinary photography captures this critical moment onstage, backstage, in private, and in public; it shows young men very definitely on a mission. From being shocked by them the world was about to be awed by them - and life was never going to be the same again.
Reviews of the book
David Bale (Bexley Times 2.1.03) said: "Bill Wyman’s book 'Rolling With The Stones' is the man all over – hugely entertaining & hard to put down"
Bury Free Press (17.1.03) said: "A spectacular book. Bill Wyman’s remarkable life and career are now lavishly laid out in his latest book RoIling With The Stones. Using more than 2,000 pictures and 270,000 words, Bill describes his formative years in South London, his evacuation to Pembrokeshire during the Blitz, his National Service in Germany and the joining of and departure from the band that was to make him famous. Rolling With The Stones is a colourful and exciting history of one of Britain's best loved bands. Quotations from all the band members and the use of Bill's own archive material makes for interesting reading. The ups and downs, the brushes with the law and media the tours, the marriages, the houses. the contracts, the arguments. the parties and the plaudits are all included in this story of the Stones. A year-by-year journey illustrated with contemporary photographs make the book accessible and easy to dip into. At the height of their fame, the Stones could cause traffic to stop, teenagers to faint, fights to break out, and airlines to ban them"
Stones People Fan Magazine (February 2003) said: “Rolling with the Stones - is a true beauty and will undoubtedly become a best-seller. Each and every page is yet another surprise, with at times fascinating text as well as many interesting 'never heard before' statements or brief inside stories and 'never seen before' photos and images of hand-written or typed, sometimes very obscure notes, posters, newspaper articles, very old concert tickets, unique memorabilia, what have you. Tour road maps, tour schemes, recording details, it's all there. With a history that covers no less than forty years, it's unavoidable to find photos and stories that many have read about before in other books or magazines, but they are interwoven in such a way, that they can be looked upon from that different angle that makes the book so special It's a true long walk along memory lane. Bill also makes a point wherever he thinks he needs to as felt from his personal perspective, sometimes hidden in a brief remark or hidden behind a quotation mark.
The book is a real Stones book, because of all members the band have and had, Bill is the one who meticulously kept track of everything that happened within and around the Rolling Stones. During thirty years he was a complete insider as far as things occurred around the band. A librarian in the true sense of the word. Those who possess or have seen that rewind video may remember Bill acting as a museum tour guide. If anyone could start a Stones museum it would be Bill Wyman. This book gives you some idea of what you could find in such a museum. As Bill mentioned in one of the interviews, it is completely impossible to deal with all those memorabilia in just one book. Nevertheless, Rolling with the Stones will bring back many memories among older fans as well as fascination to younger fans.
For sure, Bill's new book is the visual proof of the most successful story ever of a bunch of original blues/jazz freaks who made it, and in fact are still making it, because in a sense we're all still rolling along with the Stones, forty years down the road.
Vicki Arkoff (US Amazon Site 17.2.03) said: "Rolling With The Stones," written by none other than former Rolling Stone bassist Bill Wyman himself, with the help of his "Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey" partner, Richard Havers and a staff of DK editors - is a thoroughly engaging insider story of the world's legendary bad-boy rock and roll band. Judging the book by its cover, one might mistakenly suspect it's a common as-told-to remembrance. To the contrary, the hefty book is a virtual mini-museum providing everything anyone could possibly want to know about the band, its history, its inspiration and its affect on cultural and social history. Drawing from his massive personal collection of Stones memorabilia, Wyman provides hundreds of one-of-a-kind artifacts, personal photos, and entries from decades of daily journals that he began writing as a child. There are more than 3,000 images here in all, amid hundreds of press clippings, set lists, quotations by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Brian Jones, Mick Taylor and Ronnie Wood, as well as their famous peers, political pundits and journalists. Wyman's personal account links the historical analysis, anecdotes and images, as if he's personally guiding readers through a scholarly scrapbook of sorts" (5 stars)
Michael Dwyer/Chris Hollow (Sunday Age Australia 23.2.03) said: "Wyman's just released his third book, Rolling With The Stones, a tome that is hell-bent on telling it "the way it was". Wyman is a born archivist, whose obsession with historical accuracy is evident in every meticulous diary entry, vintage poster, ticket stub, handwritten letter, magazine article, set list, Christmas card, birth, death and marriage certificate included among its 512 lavishly illustrated pages.
With his new book, Wyman is getting some of his own back. Its backbone is his huge wealth of hoarded merchandise and memorabilia, intriguing bits and pieces soberly squirreled away in hotel rooms while Jones, Jagger and Richards sparred with stardom, drugs and the occasional constable.
Rolling With The Stones itemises that tour's every date and venue, its song list, cash gross, support acts, reproduces handbills and photos and even records the band's luggage allowance. And that's from one of his patchy periods.”
Charles Shaar Murray (Independent 15.8.03) said: "A lavishly illustrated coffee-table tome entitled Rolling with the Stones.
Mark Brown (Rocky Mountain News USA 12.3.05) said: “Last year Bill Wyman did "Rolling With the Stones," a coffee table book that was a lovingly compiled history of the band, digging deep into the archives he has kept for more than 40 years.
Jo Jo LaPoo (Amazon 23.6.05) said: “I recently got this book as a gift, and it was very hard to find since it is apparently out of print. I'm still reading it, but if you want to know the absolute truth about "the greatest rock 'n' roll band on the planet" you need to buy it as soon as possible. Wyman was the band's biographer, since he wrote in his personal daily diaries everything and anything that happened to the band. Since I am still reading this beautiful coffee table book, I can't give away any secrets. However, even if I finished the book already, I would still insist on you buying this book and hearing all accounts from the inside - a band member, rather than the rock journalists who either loved them and wanted to be a part of them for merely idol worship; or those writers who hated the Stones. Bill Wyman wrote an unforgettable book, a must own, must read.”
Hardback book written by Bent Rej
Foreword by Bill Wyman, signed by Bill Wyman
Dimensions: 27cm wide & 33cm high x 3cm
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
Language: English
