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Explores the past, present, and future of the band The Rolling Stones, including the member's lives, rising fame, continued success, and more.

Music journalist Stanley Booth, who traveled with the Rolling Stones throughout their 1969 American tour, provides a behind-the-scenes chronicle of that tour, which ended in violence at Altamont Speedway, and tells the band's story up to that time, covering the death of Brian Jones and painting a portrait of the 1960s.

Photographs with detailed captions chronicle the history of the Rolling Stones, describing the band's formation, the members, scandals, performances, and related topics.

If Woodstock tied the ideals of the '60s together, Altamont unraveled them. Writer and critic Saul Austerlitz tells the story of "Woodstock West," where the Rolling Stones hoped to end their 1969 American tour triumphantly, with the help of the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and 300,000 fans. Instead, the concert featured a harrowing series of disasters, starting with its haphazard planning. The bad acid kicked in early. The Hells Angels, hired to handle security, began to prey on the concertgoers. And not long after the Rolling Stones went on, an 18-year-old African-American named Meredith Hunter was stabbed by the Angels in front of the stage. The show, and the Woodstock high, was over. Austerlitz shows how Hunter's death came to symbolize the end of an era, while the trial of his accused murderer epitomized the racial tensions that still underlie America. He also finds a silver lining in the concert in how Rolling Stone's coverage of it helped create a new form of music journalism, while the making of the movie about Altamont, Gimme Shelter, birthed new forms of documentary. Using scores of new interviews with Paul Kantner, Jann Wenner, journalist John Burks, filmmaker Joan Churchill, and many members of the Rolling Stones' inner circle, as well as Meredith Hunter's family, Austerlitz shows that you can't understand the sixties or rock 'n' roll if you don't come to grips with Altamont.

Explores the past, present, and future of the legendary band that more than fifty years later, still keeps turning out hits.

"Starting out over fifty years ago, the Rolling Stones took the music of the blues and blended it into rock and roll to create their own unique sound. Decades later, they are still hard at work, recording and playing live to massive crowds of adoring fans. Who Are the Rolling Stones? captures the excitement of the Stones on their journey to become the greatest rock-and-roll band in the world"--Amazon.

A visual, song-by-song history of The Rolling Stones covers 29 studio albums, 24 compilation albums and more than 100 singles, providing photos, a musician list, recording information, a summary of how the song was developed and a production description for each tune.