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BLOWN AWAY, 
The ROLLING STONES and the death of the Sixties
by A.E. Hotchner

"The Sixties generation came to an abrupt, tragic end on a desolate, barren field in Livermore, California, with the Rolling Stone presiding over the demise." 
What had been started a decade earlier by an idealistic generations field with romantic notions of love and peace ended up "ugly, brutal, and bloody." 
The scene was the infamous Altamont concert, and there in the space of a few hours of madness and killing, Mick Jagger and the Stones ushered the sixties to a frenzied close.

On a July night just months before, Brian Jones had been found spread-eagled on the bottom of his mansion's swimming pool. The mysterious circumstance of his death were never solvedm and the case was quietly filed away as just one more rocker's drug-soaked death. 
The generation would certainly have its share of them: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Alan Wilson, among scores of others less well know. The Vietnam War was raging, the Manson murder had stunned the world, and the disaffected, angry "Jagger generation" had begun to devour itself in an orgy of violence and drugs.It was the violence, not the drugs, that killed Brian Jones. Hotchner reveals here how Brian was murder.Blown Away begin with rise of the Rolling Stone. Hotcher leads us from the scrappy boy-hoods of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, and Brian Jones through their meteoric ascent to near-gods. He explores their notorious sex lives, exorbitant drugs habits, explosive creativity, and grinding careers. Finally, Hotcher unravels the mystery of Brian Jones's death and exposes the turmoil within the rock groups that led to a struggle in the final days of Jones's life.This is a book about a rock group like no other, a burrowing inside the Rolling Stone, an evocation of the era that made them, and an unflinching look at the truth behind that fateful July evening. 

Uitgave: Simon and Schuster,
Gebonden, hardcover, met gave stofomslag
349 pagina's
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