Ronnie

"Being famous means that people see you as one thing for the rest of your life. A Rolling Stone forever. Of course, I'd rather be trapped here than anywhere else."-Ronnie Wood For the first time, a member of the world's most famous rock 'n' roll band tells his-and their-story. Raw, unsanitized, nasty and fascinating, Ronnie Wood's autobiography may not be what those who know him (even his biggest fans) expect. Raised in a council flat near Heathrow Airport, growing up only wanting to...
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"Being famous means that people see you as one thing for the rest of your life. A Rolling Stone forever. Of course, I'd rather be trapped here than anywhere else."-Ronnie Wood For the first time, a member of the world's most famous rock 'n' roll band tells his-and their-story. Raw, unsanitized, nasty and fascinating, Ronnie Wood's autobiography may not be what those who know him (even his biggest fans) expect. Raised in a council flat near Heathrow Airport, growing up only wanting to paint and play music, Wood was always talented. And in the 1960's, he was often in the right place at precisely the right time-becoming the bass player everyone from the Birds to Rod Stewart to the Small Faces needed to make their band truly rock. But Wood and his guitar-playing became super-charged when he joined The Rolling Stones. They were rock royalty from their earliest days, and from the first time Wood performed with the band, careening down New York City's Fifth Avenue on a flatbed truck playing "Brown Sugar," Wood has been at the center of the court and in the middle of the ferment. No band has ever combined the Stones' success--both artistically and materially-with their longevity. No other band has ever survived the creativity and clashes of such big personalities, or of such success thrown at them from an adoring international public so early. But with success came excess-and as mayhem and hysteria followed Ronnie on his adventures through the extremes of rock 'n roll, the drugs got harder and his relationships-especially with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the women in his life-became increasingly complex. A fascinating portrait not just of the Stones, but of the greatest rockers of the 1960's and beyond-from Eric Clapton to Rod Stewart, Jimmy Page to Keith Moon, Jimi Hendrix to Pete Townshend-RONNIE WOOD is a rich, revelatory book. Readers have never had a view of the rock world like this before. "Being famous means that people see you as one thing for the rest of your life. A Rolling Stone forever. Of course, I'd rather be trapped here than anywhere else."-Ronnie Wood For the first time, a member of the world's most famous rock 'n' roll band tells his-and their-story. Raw, unsanitized, nasty and fascinating, Ronnie Wood's autobiography may not be what those who know him (even his biggest fans) expect. Raised in a council flat near Heathrow Airport, growing up only wanting to paint and play music, Wood was always talented. And in the 1960's, he was often in the right place at precisely the right time-becoming the bass player everyone from the Birds to Rod Stewart to the Small Faces needed to make their band truly rock. But Wood and his guitar-playing became super-charged when he joined The Rolling Stones. They were rock royalty from their earliest days, and from the first time Wood performed with the band, careening down New York City's Fifth Avenue on a flatbed truck playing "Brown Sugar," Wood has been at the center of the court and in the middle of the ferment. No band has ever combined the Stones' success--both artistically and materially-with their longevity. No other band has ever survived the creativity and clashes of such big personalities, or of such success thrown at them from an adoring international public so early. But with success came excess-and as mayhem and hysteria followed Ronnie on his adventures through the extremes of rock 'n roll, the drugs got harder and his relationships-especially with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the women in his life-became increasingly complex. A fascinating portrait not just of the Stones, but of the greatest rockers of the 1960's and beyond-from Eric Clapton to Rod Stewart, Jimmy Page to Keith Moon, Jimi Hendrix to Pete Townshend-RONNIE WOOD is a rich, revelatory book. Readers have never had a view of the rock world like this before.