This book started based on interviews my father did with Mick Jagger and Bill Wyman. Then our friend Dave Herman graciously gave us access to never-before-published interviews with Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood, and Bill Wyman.
Most of the other interviews were either from my father’s archives or done specifically for this book, including ones with: Billy Altman, Marty Balin, Sid Bernstein, Craig Braun, Larry Cancro, Alan Clayson, Sam Cutler, Norman Dayron, Anthony DeCurtis, Marianne Faithfull, Bill German, Bobby Goldsboro, Robert Greenfield, Buddy Guy, Taylor Hackford, Andy Johns, Johnnie Johnson, Darryl Jones, Aki Kanamori, Al Kooper, Eddie Kramer, Don Law, Chuck Leavell, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Ray Manzarek, Mike Martinek, John Mayall, Albert Maysles, Steve Morse, Andrew Mosker, Steve Nazro, Andrew Loog Oldham, Greg Perloff, Laurence Randall, Peter Rudge, Hubert Sumlin, Dick Taylor, Irma Thomas, Dean Torrence, Kenny Vance, and Leslie Woodhead.
Because of my father’s passing, compiling the source notes for this book has been a challenge. Every effort has been made to credit other writers whose research we’ve used. If we have missed anyone, we apologize and encourage accidentally neglected sources to contact us through the book’s website (www.50Licksbook.com). Proper credit will be given both there and in future editions of this book.
BOOKS
Sid Bernstein (as told to Arthur Aaron), Not Just the Beatles . . . (Jacques & Flusster, 2000).
Richard Buskin, Inside Tracks: A First-Hand History of Popular Music from the World’s Greatest Record Producers and Engineers (Quill, 1999).
Alan Clayson, The Rolling Stones: The Origin of the Species: How, Why and Where It All Began (Chrome Dreams, 2007).
Sam Cutler, You Can’t Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, and Other Wonderful Reprobates (ECW Press, 2010).
Stephen Davis, Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones (Broadway, 2001).
Sean Egan, The Rough Guide to the Rolling Stones (Rough Guides, 2006).
Marianne Faithfull with David Dalton, Faithfull: An Autobiography (Cooper Square Press, 2000).
Bill Flanagan, Written In My Soul: Conversations With Rock’s Greatest Songwriters (Contemporary Books, 1987).
Bill German, Under Their Thumb: How A Nice Boy from Brooklyn Got Mixed Up with the Rolling Stones (and Lived to Tell About It) (Villard, 2009).
Bill Graham and Robert Greenfield, Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out (Da Capo Press, 2004).
Jeff Greenfield, No Peace, No Place: Excavations along the Generational Fault (Doubleday, 1973).
Robert Greenfield, Exile On Main Street: A Season In Hell with The Rolling Stones (Da Capo, 2006).
———, The Last Sultan: The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun (Simon and Schuster, 2011).
———, S.T.P.: A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones (Da Capo, 2002).
Mark Hoffman and James Segrest, Moanin’ at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin’ Wolf (Da Capo, 2005).
James Karnbach and Carol Bernson, It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll: The Ultimate Guide to the Rolling Stones (Facts on File, 1997).
Phil Kaufman with Colin White, Road Mangler Deluxe (Colin White & Laurie Boucke, 2005).
Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond (Knopf, 2011).
Dora Loewenstein and Philip Dodd (editors), According to the Rolling Stones (Chronicle Books, 2003).
Michael Lydon, Rock Folk: Portraits from the Rock ’n Roll Pantheon (Dial Press, 1971).
Alan Lysaght, The Rolling Stones: An Oral History (McCarthur and Company, 2003).
Larry Marion, The Lost Rolling Stones Photographs: The Bob Bonis Archive 1964–1966 (It Books, 2011).
Keith Richards (with James Fox), Life (Little Brown, 2010).
Ethan A. Russell with Gerard Van der Leun, Let It Bleed: The Rolling Stones, Altamont, and the End of the Sixties (Springboard Press, 2009).
Harry Shapiro, Alexis Korner: The Biography (Bloomsbury, 1996).
Bill Wyman, Stone Alone: The Story of a Rock ’n’ Roll Band (Da Capo, 1997).
Bill Wyman with Richard Havers, Rolling with the Stones (DK Publishing, 2002).
PERIODICALS
Keith Altham, “Rolling Stones: The Greatest Show On Earth,” NME, December 21, 1968.
Francis J. Connolly (with research by Bernard M. Corbett), “A History of Boston Garden: A Diamond Jubilee,” Boston Phoenix, 1988.
David Dalton, “Ladies and Gentlemen, Before Your Very Eyes, the Greatest Show on Earth,” Mojo, October 2004.
Patrick Doyle, “Stones Go Back to Some Girls,” Rolling Stone, November 24, 2011.
Mick Farren, “The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers,” Ink, May 1, 1971.
Robert Greenfield, “The Rolling Stone Interview: Keith Richards,” Rolling Stone, August 1971.
Barney Hoskyns, “The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main St.,” The Observer, June 2004.
Patti Smith, “Jag-arr of the Jungle,” Creem, January 1973.
“Special Collectors’ Edition: Rolling Stones 40th Anniversary,” Uncut, 2002
“Special Edition: Inside the World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band,” Mojo, 2002.
“The Ultimate Music Guide: The Rolling Stones,” (special issue 4), Uncut, 2009.
Chris Welch, “The Rolling Stones: Rock and Roll Circus,” Melody Maker, 1968.
Jann Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview: Jagger Remembers,” Rolling Stone, December 14, 1995.
VIDEO
The Ed Sullivan Shows Starring the Rolling Stones (SOFA Entertainment, 2011), DVDs available at www.edsullivan.com.
Steve Binder, director, T.A.M.I. Show: Teenage Awards Music International (Collector’s Edition) (Dick Clark Productions, 2009).
Taylor Hackford, director, Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock ’n’ Roll (Image Entertainment, 2006).
Stephen Kijak, director, Stones in Exile (Eagle Rock Entertainment, 2010).
Michael Lindsay-Hogg, director, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (Abkco Films, 2004).
Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, directors, Gimme Shelter (Maysles Films, 2000).
Martin Scorsese, director, Shine a Light (Paramount, 2008).
WEBSITE RESOURCES (all accessed January 2012)
The amazing website www.timeisonourside.com run by the incomparable Ian McPherson was the source for many of the additional Stones’ quotes you’ll find herein. Check his site in the Sources section for further information if you’re curious.
Rock ‘s Back Pages (www.rocksbackpages.com) provided a lot of great background information and source material. If you don’t already, you should really have a subscription.
Kurt Schwarz’s account of seeing the Stones at the Super Bowl comes from the excellent It’s Only Rock and Roll website (www.iorr.org). It can be found at www.iorr.org/tour05/sb.htm.
Joe D’Allesandro, “Album Cover Joe: Sticky Fingers” from www.joedallesandro.com/album.htm.
Paul DeRienzo, “Sonny Barger Interview” from pdr.autono.net/SonnyBarger.html.
Gary Pig Gold, “Skuawk! DVD Pick: The Rolling Stones-Rock and Roll Circus,” skuawk.com, 11 February 2005.
Peter Guralnick quote from www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130276817.
Rick Huxley quote from www.thedc5.com/tvedsullivan.html.
Harvey Kubernik, “Engineer Andy Johns Discusses the making of the Rolling Stones’ Exile On Main Street,” from www.goldminemag.com/article/engineer-andy-johns-discusses-the-making-of-the-rolling-stones-exile-on-main-street (originally published in Goldmine magazine).
Harvey Kubernik, “Merry Clayton Interview” from Rock ‘s Back Pages, 2009.
John Landis quotes from video accessed via www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/9.
Pete Lewis, “Marshall Chess: All the Right Moves” from www.bluesandsoul.com/feature/576/marshall_chess_all_the_right_moves.
Not Fade Away Gallery, www.NFAgallery.com.
Jon Wilde, “Sex, Songs, and the Stones: An Interview with Marshall Chess,” from www.sabotagetimes.com/music/sex-songs-and-the-stones-an-interview-with-marshall-chess-part-1/ and http://www.sabotagetimes.com/music/sex-songs-and-the-stones-an-interview-with-marshall-chess-part-2/, accessed January 2012.
Additional background information about the Redlands bust came from redlandsbust.blogspot.com and http://dietcokeandsympathy.blogspot.com/2009/11/drug-bust-at-redlands-stones.html.