Promotion
Shop now and save 20% on your back-to-school purchases & get free shipping on orders $45+ Use code: SCHOOL24
The Rolling Stones Discover America
Exclusive Inside Story of Their American Tour
Contributors
Read by Michael Lydon
Formats and Prices
Format
Format:
Audiobook Download (Unabridged)This item is a preorder. Your payment method will be charged immediately, and the product is expected to ship on or around December 3, 2013. This date is subject to change due to shipping delays beyond our control.
Also available from:
In 1969 Michael Lydon, a founding editor of Rolling Stone and a leading member of rock writing's first generation, got a dream assignment: to cover the Rolling Stones' hopscotch tour across America that ended at Altamont. His long, intimate piece on the tour, The Rolling Stones Discover America, captures the highs and lows of the grueling tour and has become a classic of rock 'n' roll journalism — one that the Maysles brothers studied to guide the editing of their film, Gimme Shelter.
Nobody used the term "embedded reporter" in those days, but that's how Lydon lived on the tour, staying in the Stones' HQ house above LA's Sunset Strip and in suites at New York's Plaza Hotel, flying in private jets to Dallas, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston, gambling in Las Vegas, hanging out backstage at the LA Forum and Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, smoking pot with "The Boys" in late-night bull sessions, and night after night digging the overpowering, sensuous, and beautiful music. "This was the peak of my rock 'n' roll reporting career," Lydon has said. "I knew I was where every hippie in America wanted to be, and I jumped into the tour with my eyes and ears wide open, a big grin on my mug."
In The Rolling Stones Discover America, Lydon also describes his own nervousness living so close to stardom. "The Stones were good guys and hard-working musicians," he says, "but they were the sun kings of the tour universe. The rest of us were minor planets spinning about them in fixed and distant orbits. It's a miracle I managed to keep my feet on the ground, keep taking notes, and get the story down on paper — but I'm glad I did."
Genre:
- On Sale
- Dec 3, 2013
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- ISBN-13
- 9781478953272
Newsletter Signup
By clicking ‘Sign Up,’ I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Hachette Book Group’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use