Ronnie: The Autobiography

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Macmillan, 2008 M11 11 - 368 páginas
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. An incredible journey.

The first of his family to be born on dry land, Ronnie Wood came from a family of water gypsies and was 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 guitar player for everyone from the Birds to Jeff Beck to the Faces and then to Rod Stewart . 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 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.

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 is a rich, revelatory book. Readers have never had a view of the rock world like this before.

 

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Prologue
1
Yer Fathers Yacht
3
Conception
29
Scene
35
Apprenticeship
58
Chuch
73
Faces
78
London Life
90
Shackles
206
Misguidance
217
Hitched
232
Overcast
241
Welding
245
Pride
249
Gunslingers
255
Shift
262

Rainbow
104
Cancel Everything
108
Flatbed
118
Josephine
147
A Times
164
Loss
171
Contribute
182
Barbarian
187
Malingering
193
Anticipation
201
Brakes
265
Boom
270
Ireland
277
Voodoo to Babylon
290
Good and Ugly
296
Rehab
305
Drury Lane
317
Bang
326
Where is this boy now?
354
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Ronnie Wood has been a member of the Rolling Stones for over thirty years. His other bands include The Birds, The Creation, The Jeff Beck Group, The Small Faces, and The Faces. He’s married to Jo Wood, is a globally renowned artist and lives in Surrey, England and Ireland.

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