Philip Norman «The Stones: The Acclaimed Biography»

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Автор Philip Norman

an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

First published by Elm Tree Books/Hamish Hamilton 1984

Paperback edition published by Penguin Books 1993

Updated edition by Sidgwick and Jackson published by Pan Macmillan 2001

This updated edition published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2012

FIRST EDITION

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Philip Norman asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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Source ISBN 9780007477067

Ebook Edition © September 2012 ISBN: 9780007477074

Version 2016-11-01

To Angela Miller

CONTENTS

PART ONE

1 ‘I was schooled with a strap right across my back’

PART TWO

PART THREE

Plate Section

I began researching The Stones in 1981, just after publication of my Beatles biography, Shout! I’d never been a particular admirer of the Rolling Stones, quite the opposite in fact, but chronicling the Beatles had shown me how closely the two bands’ histories were intertwined; so, having ‘done’ the Liverpudlians it seemed logical to move on to the Londoners.