Book Review

The Stone Age: A rocking account of pop’s legendary bad boys on their worst behaviour

Journalist and author Lesley-Anne Jones captures the adventures, excesses and the extraordinary careers of one of the world’s most entertaining bands in her lively history of the Rolling Stones

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards at the Wembley Empire Pool in 1973: despite producing no new music in decades, the Rolling Stones have remained one of the world’s most compelling live acts. Picture: Shutterstock

As the Rolling Stones celebrate their 60th anniversary, journalist and author Lesley-Anne Jones looks back over an extraordinary career that encompasses all manner of successes, narcotics, sexual escapades and personal tragedies. Jones is well able to tell the tale, since she has personal experience of some of it – regularly touring with the band as showbiz editor for various British tabloids and being a drinking buddy of Bill Wyman (the Stones’ bassist for 31 years) ...