RALEIGH, NC - JUNE 16, 2007--- Massimo Bonanno is the author of
“The Rolling Stones - Aftermath”, published by Lulu.com, the world’s
fastest growing provider of print-on-demand books
THE ROLLING STONES AFTERMATH
This deeply researched 430-page book offers a staggering and complete
new view to the whole career of the Rolling Stones, from the very early
days at dawn of the 60’s, when the future band members as many teenagers
of that time, found themselves caught by the new, sudden wind blowing
from America called rock’n’roll, to the current days corporate
mega-tours across the world. In the interim the ‘greatest rock’n’roll
band in the world’ not only changed the music scene, but also the world
and our society. After an introduction based on the latest band’s global
performances at the Super Bowl in America and the free concert in Rio de
Janeiro, the opening part describes how the band was formed, from the
hard early days striving to get gigs, to the arrival of Andrew Oldham,
the young, flamboyant PR-man who became their shrewd manager and
producer. The work is both new and unique since it covers the Stones’
career album by album, or CD by CD as we say these days; from their
first album released in 1964 to the last one, “A Bigger Bang” issued in
2005. With exclusive photos by Tamara Guo, the book is packed with
informations available nowhere else: for each album the author provides
dates of the recording sessions, the studios, the producers, the sound
engineers, the tracks, also the unreleased ones, the musicians other
than the Rolling Stones themselves and how the records did both in the
British and American charts. Tours accompanying the records releases are
also fully and deeply covered, each one with dates, venues, song list,
and supporting acts. Touring became corporate early in the 80’s and
rock’n’roll lost its innocence, yet the Rolling Stones mean not only
music, but also busts, glamour, tragedies, gossips and the alike and
everything is set in the work, so that each album or CD focalises over a
particular year or years in a journey into the past and into the music
that made the soundtrack of our lives. Although over the years several
books have been published on the ‘greatest rock’n’roll band in the
world,’ none of them comes close to “Aftermath”.
ABOUT AUTHOR
Massimo Bonanno is the author of “The Rolling Stones Chronicle”,
published by Plexus in UK, Henry Holt in the US, Ramsay in France,
Shinko Music in Japan and Angus & Robertson in Australia. He worked with
the Rolling Stones official web site to set up the band’s archives, as
Vice-President of the Brian Jones Fan Club based in Cheltenham, England
he was instrumental in raising money to finance a bronze bust for the
never forgotten musician. He writes for several fanzines and music sites
on both sides of the Atlantic. With Lulu.com he also published the
historic rock and roll thriller “Feeling Old Feelings”, a novel that
lasts more than three decades (from early 60 to early 90’s) set in the
rock and media worlds.
ABOUT LULU
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