Without the love and sustenance of my mother and father and the inspiration of my daughter, this book would not exist. The efforts of Robert Green also made it possible. Any good qualities of the writing are due in great measure to my teachers, Walter Smith and Helen White. During the years of work on this book I was assisted in various ways by Paul Bomarito, Gerald Wexler, Arthur Kretchmer, Jann Wenner, Aubrey Guy, Edward Blaine, Charles Baker, James Allison, Lucius Burch, Irvin Salky, Saul Belz, George Nichopoulos, Joseph Battaile, the late John Dwyer, the late Colonel Thomas Thrash, and the late George Campbell. Peter Guralnick and Gary Fisketjon have given me help beyond the call of sanity. Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Ian Stewart, James Dickinson, Helen Spittall, Shirley Arnold, Georgia Bergman, the late Alexis Horner, and the late Leslie Perrin have the writer’s permanent appreciation. Many people encouraged the writing of this book, and a few tried to stop it, making it inevitable. For the book’s contents, only the writer is to blame.