From "You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Unless It’s a New Rolling Stones Biography/The music journalist Bob Spitz, a keeper of numerous rock ’n’ roll flames, has turned out a colorful and authoritative new take on a much-documented band" (NYT).
Here's the book: "THE ROLLING STONES: The Biography," by Bob Spitz (commission earned). I might buy it. It wouldn't be the first book about The Rolling Stones for me. I read Keith Richards' autobiography. Somehow all I remember is him as a little kid keeping a mouse in his pocket. Blogged here.
But anyway, downloading the Kindle of the Spitz book just so I can do a word search on "mohair" is exactly the kind of thing I would do. It's not just that it's Bob Dylan. It's Bob Dylan in a blue mohair suit. It's like something in a Bob Dylan song, like, I see you've got your brand new blue mohair suit. Or, your dancing child with his mohair suit, he spoke to me, I took his flute...
Finally, it's interesting to see the New York Times writer, Leah Greenblatt, a Culture editor, boosting the reputation of RFK Jr. We all already knew he was a drug addict. It vastly elevates a man's reputation as a drug addict to reconstruct our mental picture of his debauchery with the added presence of Keith Richards.
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Was Dylan wearing a Leopard-skin pillbox-hat with that mohair suit?
Electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine.
Mohair in the Mojave is a surreal evolution.
Just what the world needs: another book chronicling the debauchery of the Rollin Stones.
The book I would like to read would be a Mick Jagger autobiography. He talks a lot but says nothing.
I find Richards fascinating. We all have heard the stories that have defined him and then you look at the way the man lives. A house filled with books in suburban Connecticut and his loving wife. The most enduring image I have of him is from the documentary “Under the Influence” where he surrounded by his grandchildren and the expression on his face is nothing short of pure joy.
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