50 Licks Read online

  BOOKS

  Sid Bernstein (as told to Arthur Aaron), Not Just the Beatles . . . (Jacques & Flusster, 2000).

  Richard Buskin, Inside Tracks: A First-Hand History of Popular Music from the World’s Greatest Record Producers and Engineers (Quill, 1999).

  Alan Clayson, The Rolling Stones: The Origin of the Species: How, Why and Where It All Began (Chrome Dreams, 2007).

  Sam Cutler, You Can’t Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, and Other Wonderful Reprobates (ECW Press, 2010).

  Stephen Davis, Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones (Broadway, 2001).

  Sean Egan, The Rough Guide to the Rolling Stones (Rough Guides, 2006).

  Marianne Faithfull with David Dalton, Faithfull: An Autobiography (Cooper Square Press, 2000).

  Bill Flanagan, Written In My Soul: Conversations With Rock’s Greatest Songwriters (Contemporary Books, 1987).

  Bill German, Under Their Thumb: How A Nice Boy from Brooklyn Got Mixed Up with the Rolling Stones (and Lived to Tell About It) (Villard, 2009).

  Bill Graham and Robert Greenfield, Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out (Da Capo Press, 2004).

  Jeff Greenfield, No Peace, No Place: Excavations along the Generational Fault (Doubleday, 1973).

  Robert Greenfield, Exile On Main Street: A Season In Hell with The Rolling Stones (Da Capo, 2006).

  ———, The Last Sultan: The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun (Simon and Schuster, 2011).

  ———, S.T.P.: A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones (Da Capo, 2002).

  Mark Hoffman and James Segrest, Moanin’ at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin’ Wolf (Da Capo, 2005).

  James Karnbach and Carol Bernson, It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll: The Ultimate Guide to the Rolling Stones (Facts on File, 1997).

  Phil Kaufman with Colin White, Road Mangler Deluxe (Colin White & Laurie Boucke, 2005).

  Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond (Knopf, 2011).

  Dora Loewenstein and Philip Dodd (editors), According to the Rolling Stones (Chronicle Books, 2003).

  Michael Lydon, Rock Folk: Portraits from the Rock ’n Roll Pantheon (Dial Press, 1971).

  Alan Lysaght, The Rolling Stones: An Oral History (McCarthur and Company, 2003).

  Larry Marion, The Lost Rolling Stones Photographs: The Bob Bonis Archive 1964–1966 (It Books, 2011).

  Keith Richards (with James Fox), Life (Little Brown, 2010).

  Ethan A. Russell with Gerard Van der Leun, Let It Bleed: The Rolling Stones, Altamont, and the End of the Sixties (Springboard Press, 2009).

  Harry Shapiro, Alexis Korner: The Biography (Bloomsbury, 1996).

  Bill Wyman, Stone Alone: The Story of a Rock ’n’ Roll Band (Da Capo, 1997).

  Bill Wyman with Richard Havers, Rolling with the Stones (DK Publishing, 2002).

  PERIODICALS

  Keith Altham, “Rolling Stones: The Greatest Show On Earth,” NME, December 21, 1968.

  Francis J. Connolly (with research by Bernard M. Corbett), “A History of Boston Garden: A Diamond Jubilee,” Boston Phoenix, 1988.

  David Dalton, “Ladies and Gentlemen, Before Your Very Eyes, the Greatest Show on Earth,” Mojo, October 2004.

  Patrick Doyle, “Stones Go Back to Some Girls,” Rolling Stone, November 24, 2011.

  Mick Farren, “The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers,” Ink, May 1, 1971.

  Robert Greenfield, “The Rolling Stone Interview: Keith Richards,” Rolling Stone, August 1971.

  Barney Hoskyns, “The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main St.,” The Observer, June 2004.

  Patti Smith, “Jag-arr of the Jungle,” Creem, January 1973.

  “Special Collectors’ Edition: Rolling Stones 40th Anniversary,” Uncut, 2002

  “Special Edition: Inside the World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band,” Mojo, 2002.

  “The Ultimate Music Guide: The Rolling Stones,” (special issue 4), Uncut, 2009.

  Chris Welch, “The Rolling Stones: Rock and Roll Circus,” Melody Maker, 1968.

  Jann Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview: Jagger Remembers,” Rolling Stone, December 14, 1995.

  VIDEO

  The Ed Sullivan Shows Starring the Rolling Stones (SOFA Entertainment, 2011), DVDs available at www.edsullivan.com.

  Steve Binder, director, T.A.M.I. Show: Teenage Awards Music International (Collector’s Edition) (Dick Clark Productions, 2009).

  Taylor Hackford, director, Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock ’n’ Roll (Image Entertainment, 2006).

  Stephen Kijak, director, Stones in Exile (Eagle Rock Entertainment, 2010).

  Michael Lindsay-Hogg, director, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (Abkco Films, 2004).

  Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, directors, Gimme Shelter (Maysles Films, 2000).

  Martin Scorsese, director, Shine a Light (Paramount, 2008).

  WEBSITE RESOURCES (all accessed January 2012)

  The amazing website www.timeisonourside.com run by the incomparable Ian McPherson was the source for many of the additional Stones’ quotes you’ll find herein. Check his site in the Sources section for further information if you’re curious.

  Rock ‘s Back Pages (www.rocksbackpages.com) provided a lot of great background information and source material. If you don’t already, you should really have a subscription.

  Kurt Schwarz’s account of seeing the Stones at the Super Bowl comes from the excellent It’s Only Rock and Roll website (www.iorr.org). It can be found at www.iorr.org/tour05/sb.htm.

  Joe D’Allesandro, “Album Cover Joe: Sticky Fingers” from www.joedallesandro.com/album.htm.

  Paul DeRienzo, “Sonny Barger Interview” from pdr.autono.net/SonnyBarger.html.

  Gary Pig Gold, “Skuawk! DVD Pick: The Rolling Stones-Rock and Roll Circus,” skuawk.com, 11 February 2005.

  Peter Guralnick quote from www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130276817.

  Rick Huxley quote from www.thedc5.com/tvedsullivan.html.

  Harvey Kubernik, “Engineer Andy Johns Discusses the making of the Rolling Stones’ Exile On Main Street,” from www.goldminemag.com/article/engineer-andy-johns-discusses-the-making-of-the-rolling-stones-exile-on-main-street (originally published in Goldmine magazine).

  Harvey Kubernik, “Merry Clayton Interview” from Rock ‘s Back Pages, 2009.

  John Landis quotes from video accessed via www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/9.

  Pete Lewis, “Marshall Chess: All the Right Moves” from www.bluesandsoul.com/feature/576/marshall_chess_all_the_right_moves.

  Not Fade Away Gallery, www.NFAgallery.com.

  Jon Wilde, “Sex, Songs, and the Stones: An Interview with Marshall Chess,” from www.sabotagetimes.com/music/sex-songs-and-the-stones-an-interview-with-marshall-chess-part-1/ and http://www.sabotagetimes.com/music/sex-songs-and-the-stones-an-interview-with-marshall-chess-part-2/, accessed January 2012.

  Additional background information about the Redlands bust came from redlandsbust.blogspot.com and http://dietcokeandsympathy.blogspot.com/2009/11/drug-bust-at-redlands-stones.html.

  FOOTNOTES

  1 A band that at various times included Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, and Keith Moon!

  2 For what it’s worth Keith tells this joke the other way, that the funeral lunch was the only way Stu could get Keith to go to a golf club.

  IMAGE CREDITS

  Chapter 1

  Ira Korman Collection

  Photofest

  Chapter 2

  Photo by Bob Bonis © NFAgallery.com

  Leslie Woodhead, Manchester, 1965

  Chapter 3

  Photo by Bob Bonis © NFAgallery.com

  Photofest

  Chapter 4

  Photofest

  Tim Kelly Collection/Photofest

  Chapter 5

  Photo by Bob Bonis © NFAgallery.com

  Photo by Bob Bonis © NFAgallery.com


  Larry Marion Collection

  Chapter 6

  Photo by Bob Bonis © NFAgallery.com

  Photo by Bob Bonis © NFAgallery.com

  Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Collection

  Chapter 7

  Tim Kelly Collection/Photofest

  Photo by Bob Bonis © NFAgallery.com

  Chapter 8

  Photo by Bob Bonis © NFAgallery.com

  Chapter 9

  Tim Kelly Collection/Photofest

  Chapter 10

  Photofest

  Chapter 11

  Tim Kelly Collection

  Chapter 12

  Photo by Bob Bonis © NFAgallery.com

  Chapter 13

  Screencap on left © SOFA Entertainment: The Ed Sullivan Shows Starring the Rolling Stones DVDs available at www.edsullivan.com; screencap on right courtesy of Photofest

  Larry Marion Collection

  Chapter 14

  Tim Kelly Collection/Photofest

  Chapter 15

  Images courtesy Photofest

  Photo by Bob Bonis © NFAgallery.com

  Chapter 16

  Ira Korman Collection

  Chapter 17

  Photofest

  Tim Kelly Collection/Photofest

  Photofest

  Chapter 18

  Photofest

  Chapter 19

  Photo by Bob Bonis © NFAgallery.com

  Photo by Bob Bonis © NFAgallery.com

  Photofest

  Chapter 20

  Photofest

  Chapter 21

  Tim Kelly Collection/Photofest

  Chapter 22

  Ira Korman Collection

  Photofest

  Chapter 23

  Larry Marion Collection

  Photofest

  Chapter 24

  Hulton Archive, photographed by David Montgomery, Getty Images

  Chapter 25

  Photofest

  Chapter 27

  Photo by Jo McDermand, courtesy Norman Dayron

  Chapter 28

  Copyright © 1969–2012 Phil Franks

  Ira Korman Collection

  Photofest

  Tim Kelly Collection/Photofest

  Photofest

  Chapter 29

  Mitch Corbett Collection, photographed by Giro Studio

  Chapter 30

  Pg 160 Mitch Corbett Collection, photographed by Giro Studio

  © Bob Gruen/www.bobgruen.com

  Chapter 31

  Photofest

  Chapter 32

  Tim Kelly Collection/Photofest

  Chapter 33

  Photofest

  Chapter 34

  Photofest

  Chapter 35

  © Bob Gruen/www.bobgruen.com

  Mitch Corbett Collection, photographed by Giro Studio

  Chapter 36

  © Bob Gruen/www.bobgruen.com

  Chapter 37

  © Laurie McGaw, 1978, for the Toronto Star

  Chapter 38

  Combative high school T-shirt design by Justin Melkmann

  Mitch Corbett Collection, photographed by Giro Studio

  © Bob Gruen/www.bobgruen.com

  Chapter 39

  Tim Kelly Collection/Photofest

  Chapter 40

  Courtesy of George Meredith

  Larry Marion Collection

  Chapter 41

  Photofest

  Screencap courtesy of Photofest

  Chapter 42

  © Bob Gruen/www.bobgruen.com

  Photofest

  Chapter 43

  Photofest

  Photofest

  Photofest

  Chapter 44

  John Chiasson/Getty Images

  Chapter 45

  Photofest

  Photofest

  Chapter 46

  Photo by Bob Bonis © NFAgallery.com

  Chapter 47

  Redferns Collection, Robert Knight Archive/Getty Images

  Author’s personal collection

  Photofest

  Mitch Corbett Collection, photographed by Giro Studio

  Chapter 48

  Photofest

  Chapter 49

  A. Messerschmidt/Getty Images

  Chapter 50

  Photofest

  Screencap courtesy of Photofest

  Epilogue

  Author’s personal collection

  ALSO BY PETE FORNATALE

  Back to the Garden

  Simon and Garfunkel’s Bookends

  Elfis

  All You Need Is Love

  Wackronyms

  The Story of Rock ’n’ Roll

  Radio in the Television Age

  The Rock Music Source Book

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Pete Fornatale started his career in radio at Fordham University, New York, in 1963, and soon became one of the architects of progressive FM radio. He presented a weekly show until his untimely death in April 2012 and wrote several books, including the musical histories Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock and Simon & Garfunkel’s Bookends, both in collaboration with his son, Peter Thomas Fornatale. He received numerous awards for his work, including the coveted Armstrong Award for Excellence in Musical Programming and an AMEE Lifetime Achievement Award in broadcasting. 50 Licks is his last book.

  ABOUT THE COAUTHORS

  Bernard M. Corbett (left) is the radio voice of Boston University hockey and Harvard University football. He is the author and coauthor of fifteen books. He lives in Stoneham, Massachusetts, and is a lifelong Rolling Stones fan.

  Peter Thomas Fornatale (right) is a freelance writer and editor who lives in Brooklyn, New York. His favorite Rolling Stone is Charlie Watts.

  For more, check out www.50Licksbook.com.

  First published in Great Britain 2013

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