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Mick & Keith: Parallel Lines

Mick & Keith: Parallel Lines

by Chris Salewicz (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

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Synopsis

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have been together for over forty years. The oldest married couple in rock and roll, their story is the quintessential rock story, made up of the far from mutually exclusive areas of sex, drugs and rock and roll. Chris Salewicz has known Keith and Mick since the early 70s, and traces their journey from the early sixties jazz, blues and r'n'b scene in and around London, through the swinging mid-sixties and on to the Stones' French exile of the early seventies. Along the way Mick's numerous and complicated relationships are untangled, while Keith's descent from the almost innocent, scandalous nature of the Redlands trial of 1967 into a more desolate and befuddled heroin addiction in the seventies is assiduously chronicled. MICK & KEITH is not only a wonderfully vivid portrait of the Stones' extraordinary protagonists, but also a fascinating slice of rock and roll life in the sixties and seventies, the heyday of the band that changed popular music for ever.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 414
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 06 Nov 2003
ISBN 10: 0752848313
ISBN 13: 9780752848310
Book Overview: Published in the year of Mick and Keith's 60th birthdays Sometime ROLLING STONE & NME journalist and founder member of MTV Europe, Chris Salewicz has the perfect background to write the definitive life of the definitive rock and rollers Major serialisation in the SUNDAY TIMES on hardback publication 'Salewicz has written a sharp and pithy compendium... Rare among rock writers, he has good judgement and - rarer still - a wry sense of humour... His account of the wedding of Mick and Bianca in 1971 is a masterpiece of period comedy' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A sharp and insightful look at the two Stones who really mattered' THE TIMES 'A vivid and intriguing portrait of the friendship between two rock legends - a love-hate relationship that's withstood four decades' OK 'A lively, sometimes racy account of the duo from Dartford who have almost nothing in common save a shared birthplace and their love of rhythm and blues' SUNDAY TIMES Chris Salewicz's previous books also received widespread critical acclaim: 'Beautifully executed, always illuminating and a top-ranking read' THE FACE 'Nothing short of a treat' THE VOICE 'Always entertaining ... rattlingly well told' GQ

Author Bio
Scriptwriter, journalist, and writer who has written for music magazines and the national press e.g. the Guardian, Time Out, Telegrap. Chris is the author of Bob Marley: Songs of Freedom, among other books on music and popular culture, including Firefly, about Noel Coward's time in Jamaica.