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The Rolling Stones' Some Girls

33 1/3

By (author) Cyrus R.K. Patell
Format: Paperback / softback
Language: English
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation, New York, United States
Published: 9th Jun 2011
Dimensions: w 120mm h 165mm d 11mm
Weight: 181g
ISBN-10: 1441192808
ISBN-13: 9781441192806
Barcode No: 9781441192806
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This is a fascinating look at the Stones in the late 70s - inspired by a year just spent in the disco/punk cauldron of New York City. It's October 1977, and the Rolling Stones are in a Paris recording studio. They're under siege. Keith Richards' legal troubles after his arrest for heroin possession in Canada threaten the band's future, and the broad consensus among is that the band will never again reach the heights of Exile on Main Street. But Mick Jagger is writing lyrics inspired by the year he has just spent in New York City, where he was hanging out with the punks at CBGB and with the glitterati at Studio 54. And new bandmember Ron Wood is helping Richards recapture the two-guitar groove that the band had been missing since the Brian Jones era. The result? Some Girls, the band's response both to punk rock and to disco, an album that crackles with all the energy, decadence, and violence of New York in the 1970s. Weaving together the history of the band and the city, Cyrus Patell traces the genesis and legacy of the album that Jagger would later call the band's best since "Let It Bleed". "33 1/3" is a series of short books about a wide variety of albums, by artists ranging from James Brown to the Beastie Boys. Launched in September 2003, the series now contains over 60 titles and is acclaimed and loved by fans, musicians and scholars alike. It was only a matter of time before a clever publisher realized that there is an audience for whom "Exile on Main Street" or "Electric Ladyland" are as significant and worthy of study as "The Catcher in the Rye" or "Middlemarch...The" series, which now comprises 29 titles with more in the works, is freewheeling and eclectic, ranging from minute rock-geek analysis to idiosyncratic personal celebration - "The New York Times Book Review", 2006. This is a brilliant series...each one a word of real love - NME (UK). For more information on the series and on individual titles in the series, check out our blog.

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This latest entry in the wonderful 33 1/3 series features the last great album by the Rolling Stones... * Globe & Mail * Listed in Rolling Stones books feature on examiner.com * https://www.examiner.com/rolling-stones-in-national/rolling-stones-books-set-for-publication-2011-and-2012 *