Rolling Stones in Exile

Posted by Kendall Defoe Nov 22, 2006

I just discovered this book at the local store and thought that you might want to take a look at it: "Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones" by Robert Greenfield.

I had already read a few things about the recording of this album, and its status as a classic cannot be denied. What did surprise me was the amount of detail available on Keith`s heroin addict. Man, how did this guy get through the seventies? I had heard about the complete blood transfusions and the attempts at keeping clean, but he seems to have had a serious deathwish that he only reneged on at the last minute to keep him upright. And Mick was so much a part of the celebrity culture of the time that he ceased to be a rock star.

Maybe it was not their fault. They had just escaped Altamont, the sixties, the death of Brian Jones and the taxman (hence, the exile). They needed to return to what they knew.

I am just glad that they lived to reap what they sowed. Read the book.