Customer Reviews:
 More Inside the Stones March 18, 2008
Bill Wyman does a great job in this book giving us a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most famous bands in the world. I think the book that compliments this one and gives us even a more insightful look into the world of Brian Jones and the Rolling Stones is Gloria Shepherd's biography titled "Brian Jones Straight from the Heart". Although this book is basically new, I do not see it listed here on Amazon.UK. However, I purchased my book on eBay. For anyone wanting a more complete look at the Stones' history, I recommend taking a look at her work. It is well worth the read.
 Poor old Bill July 27, 2006
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Disappointing book. Bill is physically a small bloke & seems to have an inferiority complex so he keeps a record of all the girls he has screwed. How sad is that. He admits the Stones only picked him because of his huge speaker encased in concrete, which gave a good reasonance. He aligns himself with Charlie & Brian and seems to resent Mick & Keith, he makes no meaningful comment on his own musical contribution to the band. Yet he is always moaning about not having any money & how the band got ripped off, but nothing about how they coped with their enormous wealth. Bill describes an incident with a female fan where he has trouble removing her underwear, this to me sums up the poverty of this book. Think of all the incidents both humourous, musical, tragedies, pathos, satire etc that could have been told about his life with the Stones. Yet we get an almost bitter, miserish, ungrateful, third rate story of mediocrity. Not a blockbusting, stonker of a book about the greatest rock band of all time!
 A Fantastic Source for real Stones fans August 22, 2003
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am a long, long time Stones follower, and I own lots of books about the band. I prefer the early years, when Brian Jones was still in the band. Wyman's books is as close as you get to be with the early Stones, following them from club to club, from dance hall to ballroom, from UK to the USA. Bill kept and extensive diary about the band, with lots of material. This allows him to tell you exactly what the Stones did on a particular day: where they bought that jacket, or what they were doing at home. The book isn't boring at all, nor is focused only in Wyman. It is very good written (in fact, Ray Coleman wrote it!) and the style is very bright. In my opinion, is the best book ever written about the Rolling Stones (1962-1969). You should buy it!
Dull, dull, dull December 31, 2001
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
Unbelievable as it may sound: Bill Wyman manages to mostly reduce all those wild rock 'n roll years to a list of gigs and names plus endless griping about his financial affairs. No doubt the Stones were robbed blind in those early days by unscrupulous agents and record company excecutives, but a single chapter on the subject would have convinced me as well. The book mainly focuses on the early years, but apart from Bill's confession that he was an almost compulsive womanizer in those days you won't find much juicy information on life behind the stage. And on their musical development and influences little is written that wasn't already widely known. Those of you who want to know in a much more pleasant fashion where Bill is at, surf to Amazon's music section and buy his Rhythm King cd's.
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