Blown Away: "Rolling Stones" and the Death of the Sixties (A Touchstone book)

by A . E . Hotchner (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $6.11

  Blown Away is a vivid and compelling portrait of the Rolling Stones, a monumental tapestry of a suicidal generation and an expose of the astounding truth about the death of Brian Jones. Hotchner takes us through a meteoric ascent of the seminal rock group to the disaffection of a generation that begins to devour itself in an orgy of violence and drugs.

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  Hardcover
  1990

  $6.49

  A revelation about the Rolling Stones and their times, based on archives of material, originally amassed by Bill Wyman. Hotchner explores the Stones' humble musical beginnings in London and traces their lives and times to a horrific climax in 1969 - a year when Brian Jones was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool, when Charles Manson perpetrated a series of gruesome murders, when Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix died of overdoses and when the Hells Angels brutally murdered a man at Altamount while the Stones played on. The author looks beyond to the consolidation of their reputation as the definitive rock group of their decade. The book also presents the real truth about their notorious sex lives, exorbitant drug habits and explosive creativity. Finally, Hotchner unravels the mystery of Brian Jones' death and exposes the turmoil within the rock group that led to a blood struggle in the final days of Jones' life. The author also wrote Papa Hemingway , Doris Day and Sophia .