The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years by Christopher Sandford – review
The Rolling Stones' merchandise, rather than their music, has ensured their survivalPopular culture gobbles up its favourites and almost immediately spits them out, so how come the Rolling Stones – who until very recently still creakily cavorted through ghoulish parodies of the songs they composed half a century ago – haven't been expelled into oblivion? Mick Jagger now dyes his hair a fetching shade of chestnut; Keith Richards, having miraculously survived the decades in which he used his b...
Guardian Music — The Rolling Stones' merchandise, rather than their music, has ensured their survivalPopular culture gobbles up its favourites and almost immediately spits them out, so ho... more info