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60 Years of the Rolling Stones: Book launch event, with Lesley-Ann Jones

60 Years of the Rolling Stones: Book launch event, with Lesley-Ann Jones

Fri 29 Jul 2022 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM BST

The Social, Little Portland Street, W1W 7JD

60 Years of the Rolling Stones: Book launch event, with Lesley-Ann Jones

Fri 29 Jul 2022 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM BST

The Social, Little Portland Street, W1W 7JD

Description

As the Rolling Stones celebrate their 60th anniversary, acclaimed author Lesley-Ann Jones launches her revealing biography of the self-styled greatest rock'n'roll band in the world.

The Stone Age details the inside story of the Stones' musical achievements and longevity while casting a critical eye on the chaos they have left in their wake, from Altamont to the revolving door succession of wives and girlfriends.

How did the ultimate anti-establishment misfits become the respectable global brand we know today? How did five white suburban kids bring the music of black America to British audiences - and, after everything, how do the Stones carry on in 2022, playing to the grandchildren of their original fans?

In a revealing and entertaining evening for all music fans at The Social, five minutes from Oxford Circus tube, Lesley-Ann will be in conversation with journalist Duncan Steer, recently host of music chat nights with Nick Lowe, Baxter Dury and John Altman.

Known for her exhaustive research, Lesley-Ann Jones has interviewed hundreds of insiders and eye witnesses to create this definitive biography; as a friend of Bill Wyman in the 80s, she had already seen the Stones' world up close for herself. 

A Fleet Street showbiz writer for over 20 years, Lesley-Ann is steeped in rock and pop culture: she has been on tour with Elton John, Paul McCartney, Queen and David Bowie (who she also knew as a child), worked with Debbie Harry, and interviewed everyone from Princess Margaret to Brigitte Bardot and Frank Sinatra. Lesley-Ann is the author of Love of My Life: The Lives and Loves of Freddie Mercury; Who Killed John Lennon: The Lives, Loves and Deaths of the Greatest Rock Star; and Hero: Bowie. 

Early tickets are £10 with an Early Bird book-and-ticket offer for just £23 (Book RRP is £20). 

Doors open at 6pm and the event will run 6.30-8pm. There will be a chance to ask your own questions.

Praise for Lesley-Ann Jones' last book, her memoir Tumbling Dice

"Brilliant, unputdownable, a tour de force. The best book about celebrities that I have ever read. I wish I’d written it." -
Simon Napier-Bell

"Lesley-Ann was both the glamour and the guts of rock journalism. No one got closer to the story, nor nearer to the core of a crazy time. She was there and she was all there." -
Robert Elms, BBC Radio London

"Boy oh boy, Tumbling Dice is sensational! The stories are amazing and the storyteller, Lesley-Ann Jones, brings such intelligence, self-knowledge and honesty to a life recollected, that by the second page of the introduction, I was hooked."
Matthew Parris







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The Social, Little Portland Street, W1W 7JD

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