Oh, I'll have to check it out, then...I love books with juicy bits like that! And I like seeing lots of people's views on one band's experiences. Even when they're not exactly...reliable. *cough*Tony*cough*
I only read it because my school library had, I think, two books on the Stones written by anyone actually involved with the group, and I was determined to read them (all the other ones were like, and this is what I think this song means, and let me break it down for all the music majors, snore). The other was Stanley Booth's book, which actually IS good! I didn't realize Sanchez's book was THAT BOOK til I read reviews and put two and two together. Aha!
Admittedly, it's quite entertaining, but hardly gospel truth. And if I recall correctly, he said some nasty things about the whole Brian/Anita/Keith thing, and really about Keith and Mick in regards to Brian's deterioration. Or maybe that was this other book I read about Brian, where the author was like, in love with the image of him she created and was all, it's kinda okay that he hit his girlfriends, and Mick and Keith were dicks, and Keith and Anita were addicted to heroin and now they look like crap so they GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED. I was like...? And it was even weirder because she actually did talk to Keith for her book (this was a fairly old book I think, from the early 80s, maybe), but I think it got lost in translation a little, hahaha. Not at all like what Keith said in his book, of course! :D
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Date: 2010-10-30 09:42 pm (UTC)I only read it because my school library had, I think, two books on the Stones written by anyone actually involved with the group, and I was determined to read them (all the other ones were like, and this is what I think this song means, and let me break it down for all the music majors, snore). The other was Stanley Booth's book, which actually IS good! I didn't realize Sanchez's book was THAT BOOK til I read reviews and put two and two together. Aha!
Admittedly, it's quite entertaining, but hardly gospel truth. And if I recall correctly, he said some nasty things about the whole Brian/Anita/Keith thing, and really about Keith and Mick in regards to Brian's deterioration. Or maybe that was this other book I read about Brian, where the author was like, in love with the image of him she created and was all, it's kinda okay that he hit his girlfriends, and Mick and Keith were dicks, and Keith and Anita were addicted to heroin and now they look like crap so they GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED. I was like...? And it was even weirder because she actually did talk to Keith for her book (this was a fairly old book I think, from the early 80s, maybe), but I think it got lost in translation a little, hahaha. Not at all like what Keith said in his book, of course! :D