Journalist Robert Greenfield witnessed first-hand how drugs and women stretched Mick Jagger's and Keith Richards' relationship to breaking point, bringing them perilously close to the breakup of the band. In his new bookAin't It Time We Said Goodbye, he shares the band's struggle with power, stardom and near-destruction. The book is available for review and extract, and author Robert Greenfield is available for interview by phone from the US.
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Ain't It Time We Said Goodbye
The Rolling Stones on the Road to Exile
Robert Greenfield
Published 5thJune 2014 in hardback, by Da Capo Press,
an imprint of the Perseus Books Group, £17.99
Although they didn't know it then, when the Rolling Stones embarked on their farewell tour of Great Britain in March 1971, having announced they were about to go into tax exile in the south of France, it was the end of an era. For the Stones, nothing would ever be the same again.
For ten days, the Rolling Stones travelled by train and bus to play two shows a night in many of the same small town halls and theatres where they had begun their career. Performing brand new songs like ‘Bitch', ‘Brown Sugar', ‘Wild Horses', and ‘Can't You Hear Me Knockin'' from their as-yet-unreleased albumSticky Fingerslive on stage for the very first time, they also played classics like ‘Midnight Rambler', ‘Honky Tonk Women', ‘Satisfaction', ‘Street Fighting Man', and Chuck Berry's ‘Little Queenie' and ‘Let It Rock'.
Because only one journalist - Robert Greenfield - was allowed to accompany the Stones on this tour, there has never before been a full-length account of the landmark event that marked the end of the first chapter of the Rolling Stones' extraordinary career.
In a larger sense,Ain't It Time We Said Goodbyeis the story of two artists on the precipice. For Mick Jagger and Ketih Richards, as well as those who travelled with them, the Rolling Stones' farewell tour of England was the end of the innocence. No laminates. No backstage passes. No security. No sound checks and no rehearsals. Just the Rolling Stones on the road playing rock 'n' roll the way it was truly meant to be seen and heard.
Based on Greenfield's first-hand account as well as new interviews with many of the key players,Ain't It Time We Said Goodbyeis a vibrant and thrilling look at the way it once was and would never be again in the world according to the Rolling Stones.![[image]](http://collateral.prmax.co.uk/collateral/57276.jpg "39565-2.jpg")
Robert Greenfield, a former Associate Editor of the London bureau ofRolling Stonemagazine, is the author of many classic rock books, includingSTP: A Journey Through America with the Rolling StonesandExile on Main St.: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones, as well as the definitive biographies of Timothy Leary and Ahmet Ertegun. He is the co-author, with Bill Graham, ofBill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out, which won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. An award-winning playwright and novelist, his short fiction has appeared inEsquire,GQ, andPlayboy magazines. He lives in California.
For further information, to request an interview with Robert Greenfield or a review copy of Ain't It Time We Said Goodbye, please contact Katrina Poweron 07 963 962 538 or katrina.power@yahoo.com
Published 5th June 2014 in hardback, 216 pages, by Da Capo Press, an imprint of the Perseus Books Group, 9780306823169, £17.99