Ronald David Wood ist ein englischer Rockgitarrist und Bassist. Er ist vor allem als Mitglied der ikonischen Bands The Rolling Stones, Faces und The Jeff Beck Group bekannt. Seine musikalische Karriere ist untrennbar mit diesen einflussreichen Gruppen verbunden, die die Rockmusik mitgestaltet haben.
Witzig und ungeschönt: ein Blick hinter die Kulissen der MusikszeneAls Gitarrist der Rolling Stones hat Ronnie Wood alles erlebt, was die Sex-, Drugs- und Rock-‘n’-Roll-Ära zu bieten hatte. Bewegende, schrille und abgründige Geschichten hat er uns in seiner Autobiografie zu erzählen. Von seiner bescheidenen Roma-Kindheit bis zu den kultigen Stones-Auftritten und seiner zweiten Karriere als bildender Künstler: Ronnie lässt jeden Hochglanzstar unserer Tage alt aussehen!
Here's the inside story: the history of the Rolling Stones - according to the Rolling Stones. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, and Ronnie Wood have come together for this remarkable project. They've also opened up their personal and band archives to include many rare and intimate images that are interwoven with the text. The book gets right to the heart of what makes the Stones the Stones, as musicians, songwriters, performers, and colleagues. They describe how their music has evolved and how it has affected and changed their lives. They also reveal, with refreshing frankness, how their own lives have helped, or hindered, their music-making. The Stones' own words - insightful, funny, poignant, surprising, and above all, completely authentic - are complemented by insider reflections from key players in their story over the years such as Ahmet Ertegun, David Bailey, and Cameron Crowe. A comprehensive reference section including discography, and chronology, studded with the Stones' personal comments on the music and memories, completes this must-read volume. Here, in their own words and images, is the life and work of a band which has played the soundtrack of our lives for the last forty years.
