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

The acclaimed, bestselling rock-and-roll biographer delivers the first complete, unexpurgated history of the worlds greatest band.The saga of the Rolling Stones is the central epic in rock mythology. From their debut as the intermission band at Londons Marquee Club in through their latest recordsetting Bridges to Babylon world tour, the Rolling Stones have defined a musical genre and experienced godlike adulation, quarrels, addiction, legal traumas, and descents into madness and deathwhile steadfastly refusing to fade away. Now Stephen Davis, the New York Times bestselling author of Hammer of the Gods and Walk This Way, who has followed the Stones for three decades, presents their whole story, replete with vivid details of the Stones musical successesand personal excesses.