A loving look at the last of rock’s dinosaurs

Music; The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones; By Rich Cohen; Headline, €26.60

The Rolling Stones: the band once seemed thrillingly subversive, but now resemble a bitter married couple

Rich Cohen fell in love with the Rolling Stones at the age of ten. For this innocent middle-class boy in Chicago, the opening cowbell of Honky Tonk Women heard through his brother’s bedroom door was like a religious summons to a new way of life. “The music made me feel grown-up and mean,” he recalls, “and suggested a dangerous world of drugs and booze and all manner of sin I looked forward to ...