True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF THE ROLLING STONES

THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF THE ROLLING STONES

Stanley Booth

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Booth, Stanley, 1942-

The true adventures of the Rolling Stones / Stanley Booth.

p. cm.

Originally published: 1st Vintage books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1985, c1984.

ISBN 1-55652-400-5

1. Rolling Stones. 2. Rock musiciansâBiography. I. Title.

ML421.R64 B66 2000
782.42166'092'2âdc21
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Thanks to the Colonel Bobby Ray Watson Archives for the words of Joe Callicott, to Stanley Kesler and Roland Janes for deciphering the conversation at Sun Recording Studio, and to David Maysles for his technical assistance.

Lyrics from “Midnight Rambler,” by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard. Copyright Â© 1969, 1970 by ABKCO Music, Inc. Lyrics from “Street Fighting Man,” by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard. Copyright Â© 1968, 1969 by ABKCO Music, Inc. Lyrics from “Jumpin' Jack Flash,” by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard. Copyright Â© 1968 by ABKCO Music, Inc. Lyrics from “Sympathy for the Devil,” by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard. Copyright Â© 1968, 1969 by ABKCO Music, Inc. Lyrics from “Under My Thumb,” by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard. Copyright Â© 1966 by ABKCO Music, Inc. Lyrics from “19th Nervous Breakdown,” by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard. Copyright Â© 1966 by ABKCO Music, Inc. Lyrics from “I'm Free,” by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard. Copyright Â© 1965 by ABKCO Music, Inc. Lyrics from “Brown Sugar,” by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard. Copyright Â© 1971 by ABKCO Music, Inc. Lyrics from “Gimme Shelter,” by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard. Copyright Â© 1969, 1970 by ABKCO Music, Inc. Lyrics from “Stray Cat Blues,” by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard. Copyright Â© 1968, 1969 by ABKCO Music, Inc. Lyrics from “Ruby Tuesday,” by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard. Copyright Â© 1967 by ABKCO Music, Inc. Lyrics from “The Last Time,” by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard. Copyright Â© 1965 by ABKCO Music, Inc.

Chappell and Co., Inc.: excerpt from the lyrics to “He's a Rebel,” by Gene Pitney. Copyright Â© 1962 by Six Continents Music Publishing, Inc. All rights controlled by Unichappell Music, Inc. International Copyright Secured. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Used By Permission.

Doubleday & Company, Inc.: excerpts from
Jazz
by Robert Goffin. Copyright 1944 by Robert Goffin. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday & Company, Inc.

Fischbach, Fischbach & Weiner: excerpt from the lyrics to “Hickory Wind.” Lyrics and music by Gram Parsons and Bob Buchanan. Copyright Â© 1969 WAIT & SEE MUSIC. Used By Permission. All Rights Reserved.

Peer International Corporation: excerpt from the lyrics to “(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle.” Words and music by Hank Williams and Jimmie Davis. Copyright 1951 by Peer International Corporation. Copyright renewed. All rights in the U.S.A. controlled by Hiriam Music, Inc., Fred Rose Music, Inc., and Peer International Corporation. All rights for the world outside the U.S.A. controlled by Peer International Corporation. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Used By Permission.

Random House, Inc.: excerpt reprinted from
The Birth of Tragedy,
by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated with commentary by Walter Kaufmann. Copyright Â© 1967 by Random House, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc.: excerpt from
Rolling Stone
MagazineâJanuary 21, 1970. Copyright Â© 1970 by Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted By Permission.

Tradition Music Co.: excerpt from the lyrics to “You Got to Move,” by Fred McDowell. Copyright Â© by Fred McDowell & Gary Davis (Tradition Music Co. & Chandos Music Co.). Used By Permission.

Photograph on
page 384
copyright Â© Jim Marshall.

Cover design: David Scott. Cover photo: The Rolling Stones in
Gimme Shelter,
a film by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin; film still from Michael Ochs Archive.
This edition of
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
is an unabridged republication, with minor emendations and a new afterword, of the edition published as
Dance with the Devil
in New York in 1984.
It is published by arrangement with the author.

Copyright Â© 1984, 2000 by Stanley Booth
All rights reserved
Published by A Cappella Books
An imprint of Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
814 North Franklin Street
Chicago, Illinois 60610
ISBN-13: 978-1-55652-400-4
ISBN-10: 1-55652-400-5
10Â Â 9Â Â 8Â Â 7Â Â 6Â Â 5

FOR ALLÂ THE CHILDREN

We want the heats of the orgy and not its murder, the warmth of pleasure without the grip of pain, and so the future threatens a nightmare, and we continue to waste ourselves . . . we are the cowards who must defend courage, sex, consciousness, the beauty of the body, the search for love, and the capture of what may be, after all, an heroic destiny.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Without the love and sustenance of my mother and father and the inspiration of my daughter, this book would not exist. The efforts of Robert Green also made it possible. Any good qualities of the writing are due in great measure to my teachers, Walter Smith and Helen White. During the years of work on this book I was assisted in various ways by Paul Bomarito, Gerald Wexler, Arthur Kretchmer, Jann Wenner, Aubrey Guy, Edward Blaine, Charles Baker, James Allison, Lucius Burch, Irvin Salky, Saul Belz, George Nichopoulos, Joseph Battaile, the late John Dwyer, the late Colonel Thomas Thrash, and the late George Campbell. Peter Guralnick and Gary Fisketjon have given me help beyond the call of sanity. Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Ian Stewart, James Dickinson, Helen Spittall, Shirley Arnold, Georgia Bergman, the late Alexis Horner, and the late Leslie Perrin have the writer's permanent appreciation. Many people encouraged the writing of this book, and a few tried to stop it, making it inevitable. For the book's contents, only the writer is to blame.

CONTENTS

THE KILLING GROUND

THE ELEPHANTS' GRAVEYARD

DANCE TO THE DEATH

CODA

AFTERWORD : ONE HALF OF FOREVER