Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones

The saga of the Rolling Stones is the central epic in rock mythology. Ever since their debut at London’s Marquee Club in 1962 the Stones have defined a musical genre and experienced godlike adulation, quarrels, addiction, legal traumas and descents into madness and death – while steadfastly refusing to fade away.

Old Gods Almost Dead is the most comprehensive biography of the Stones yet, documenting their intense backstage lives; the feuds, the drugs, the marriages and the affairs that inspired and informed their songs; and the business of making records and putting on shows, remarkably enduring into the twenty-first century. It is a saga as raunchily, vibrantly entertaining as the Stones themselves