This course will survey the music of the Rolling Stones, beginning with the roots and first formation of the band in the early 1960s, and following the group through the release of It's Only Rock 'n' Roll in late 1974.
Week 1: Rolling Stones Books
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John CovachProfessor of Music and Director
Institute for Popular Music
Welcome to the first of our special features here on the music of
the Rolling Stones, 1962 to 1974.
In this feature, we'll try to roll out these features one per week.
So, if this one goes with week one of the course and.
I want to start by talking about the books that you may find helpful.
And some of the ones that I've used in my own research preparing material for
the course and through the years.
I first want to welcome you to the Institute for
Popular Music here at the University of Rochester.
I'm in a, a room that is one of our, our classrooms here in
the college music department here so, if you happen to hear some music coming in or
bleeding through some symphonic music, that's because there are other
classes going on here at the same time as we're taping this.
All right. Let's get to,
right to some of the books that are the,
the most useful, will be the most useful to you as you.
Do your own work on the music of The Rolling Stones.
The two books that I have used primarily to pull together the information about
Stones' releases, and recordings, and
all of that kind of thing are these two right here.
The book by Martin Elliot.
This has, this has been through a couple of editions.
This one marked as the 50th anniversary edition,
The Rolling Stones Complete Recording Sessions 1962 to, to 2012.
What Martin has done is, is pulled together all of the songs,
you look them and whatever song you want to know about,
you look up in the index and then he is giving you the chronological.
A recording of when that, when that song was recorded chronologically,
based on when the recording was begun.
So sometimes something that was begun early, say like in 1963,
but not finished for
months later, will appear chronologically at the point where it was begun.
Very very interesting, because he always, he al,
he tends to give stories about some of the circumstances that some of
the musicians who are performing on which track and that kind of thing, so it's a,
it's a, a, a great reference I, I use this one an awful lot.
A second one that's also fantastic is this one by James and Carol Bernson
called It's Only Rock and Roll, the ultimate guide to the Rolling Stones.
This one approaches the recordings in a different way.
In this one he gives you a, what he calls a sessionography.
So in other words, he organizes it according to the various sessions that
the Stones did and then lists the songs that were recorded at the time.
So that's great for getting a sense of when they were in the recording studio.
A lot of the songs that you find in Martinelli it's books, sort of
clumped together into some of the sessions that are listed in the Con book and
Burnsen books, so it's fantastic.
Not only that, but he gives you a list of television appearances, and tours and
dates and this kinds of things.
So you can really see what was going on in the stones.
A career in addition to recording,
sao between the two of these, a fantastic reference books.
In terms of the Stones telling the story in their own words this boo,u h,
which you can see has a sticker on it because it was it's kind of a remainder,
sort of coffee table.
A book, I've got a couple of these hanging around the house.
This one is called According to The Rolling Stones, it's probably the closest
thing to, if you know, The Beatles Anthology, where there's lots of talking
to The Stones about their careers and that kind of thing and lot's of great pictures.
So, that's a wonderful kind of account of the history of the group.
Although as you can see, it's a big book.
So, if you decide to get into this book, plan to have a,
a very comfortable chair as you do.
Another book that deals with the history of the,
of the group in the great kind of way is the Andy Babiuk and Greg Prevost book
called Rolling Stones Gear, All the Stones' Instruments from Stage to Studio.
Andy Babiuk, as it turns out, is another guy who lives here in Rochester and
so I know Andy, we've had him in here in this at a couple of times.
This happens to be an autographed copy because the local book store here
Andy did a book signing not too long ago when this book was released.
Here we get the story of the Rolling Stones but
told almost in parallel with the gear they were using and me,
being such a gear hound, you know, with guitars and amps and this kind of thing.
That's endlessly fascinating.
And so there are great pictures of, of, pictures of of the, sometimes the actual
instruments or instruments that are very close to the ones the Stones played.
So, from that point of view very, very interesting.
We now can turn, to some of the books that sort of are about the band in
more specific kinds of ways.
During the course of time that that during the lectures, you'll hear me referring
a lot to these books by Andrew Loog Oldham the group's first real
important really important manager, one of the first early managers of the group.
But Andrew was there during all this period in the mid-60's where a lot of
this early Stone's history was influenced.
And this is his most recent book called Stone Free.
It's got a lot of profiles of various people
Larry Parnes Allen Klein are some of the people.
The first big book was this one called Stoned,
a memoir of London in the 1960's a fantastic book.
Not only is it Andrew writing, but he's also brought together a number of
other voices, other people that were there and
what they've had, what they had to say about those years.
So it's really, it's almost too detailed in a certain kind of way,
cause it really, this book I think only gets us up to about 1964 or 1965.
That's picked up with this book called, 2Stoned kind of
the second the second volume of that, again, Andrew Loog Oldham himself.
Between those three I think there's even a fourth one you can you can find.
Then there are the books by, by the, about or, or
were written by that actual members or people who were in the studio with them.
This book by Bill Wyman is a fantastic book.
Stone Alone, the story of a rock and roll band.
This is really only sort of the first half of, of Wyman's writing on the Stones.
He's got another book called Rolling with the Stone which was more of a kind of big
coffee table book on the Stone's music and that's very interesting.
But though Wyman had got really paid a lot of attention to the detail of what was
going on, he must have kept some kind of a diary because it's amazing that kind of
detailed information here.
So this one, again, this one together with the original book Stone,
the first one with the Andrew Loog Oldham.
These 2 books really give you a great picture of what's happening with
the Rolling Stones in those first couple years in the mid sixties, and
put together with these 2 reference books here that I mentioned earlier really
are important resources.
Of course we have books about members of the Rolling Stones, or
people close to them.
For example, this relatively recent book by Paul Trynka is devoted to Brian Jones,
The Making of the Rolling Stones.
I haven't had a chance to spend a lot of time with this because it's only just,
just recently come out.
But it looks like it's going to be a fantastic read, devoted to
Brian which is something that is a lot of times overlooked in some of these other
books because he really was only part of the 60's version of the group.
Of course most Rolling Stones fans will know this one.
again, one that you can find remaindered I've got a couple copies of
this around the house, too.
Life the biography of Keith Richards, you get to hear Keith's take on things.
Other books about members close to the group that might be interesting to you.
Glyn Johns, who as we'll talk about starts to
play a very important role in the late 60s in the recording of those Stones records,
is also there at the very beginning of the Stones' career.
This one A Life Recording Hits with the Rolling Stones, the Who,
Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, Eric Clapton and the Faces the book called Sound Man.
And, again, this is another one that's just recently out so
I haven't had too much of a time too much time to dig into it but
looks like it's going to be a fantastic read.
And then I, I do mention in the first video that if there is a,
a kind of a quick book that you want to kind of get through that kind of gives you
the, the story of the Rolling Stones this Philip Norman book is is,
is a pretty good one.
The Stones, the The Acclaimed Biography.
This is a used copy that I picked up around town for
just a couple of dollars I've got the,uh, the hard cover back in the office here.
So this is just a small sliver of the Rolling Stones books that are out there.
And you notice that there is not a Mick Jagger book, because there are just so
many Mick Jagger biographies out there you can just sort of
start working through them yourself.
In terms of the information that's in the course though,
I have tended to rely pretty heavily on the information I get from Bill Wyman and
from Andrew Loog Oldham.
And these two these two books about the sessions and the tours and that kind of
thing have just been indispensable to me as I, as I pull together information.
So these are some of the Rolling Stones books that you can find and
that, that I've found useful.
In the next video we'll talk about the DVDs that you can get that,
that play into the history of the Rolling Stones.
But for now here's a pretty good sample of reading,
of what you can use to get more familiar with the music of the Rolling Stones.
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