60 Years of the “Greatest Rock and Roll Band of all time”

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Charlie's Good Tonight by Paul Sexton
As the Rolling Stones celebrate their 60th anniversary, watch acclaimed authors Lesley-Ann Jones and Paul Sexton as they discuss the self-styled greatest rock’n’roll band in the world with BBC Journalist and Presenter Mike Naylor.
Drawing from interviews with family, friends and his fellow band members in the Rolling Stones, this definitive and fully authorised biography of Charlie Watts takes readers on an unmissable tour of the career and charisma of one of the most legendary drummers of all time.
Featuring forewords from bandmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, this is the official and fully authorised biography of the world's most revered and celebrated drummer.
Mid-1962. The newly formed Rolling Stones are on the hunt for a permanent drummer. Their sights are set on Charlie Watts, a jazz musician already well-known within London's rhythm and blues clubs. Fortunately for future Stones fans the world over, they persuade him to take on the job.
Once installed at the drum seat, Charlie would not miss a beat for the rest of his life. He was there throughout the swinging sixties as the Stones reached superstardom and for the well-documented debauchery of the 1970s, typified by the iconic album Exile on Main St. Battling his own demons by the eighties, Charlie emerged unscathed, cementing his reputation as the thoughtful, cultured but no less compelling counterpoint to his more raucous bandmates.
For almost 60 years - through all the band bust-ups, bereavements and changes in personnel both on stage and off - Charlie remained the rock at the heart of the Rolling Stones. At the same time, he was the antithesis of the rock-star archetype, an intensely private man who valued his family above all else.
Drawing on new interviews with his family, friends and former bandmates - including Mick Jagger and Keith Richards - Charlie's Good Tonight is the remarkable life story of Charlie Watts: official, authorised and as it's never been told before.
The Stone Age - Sixty Years of the Rolling Stones by Lesley-Ann Jones
The Rolling Stones juggernaut appraised and dissected as never before - the good, the bad, the ugly
The Stone Age - Sixty Years of the Rolling Stones tracks the band’s legacy, unstoppable as a collective and fascinating, contradictory and disturbing as individuals - through the glory years, the exile years, the big-machine years, and into the bumpy landing ground of rock music’s ongoing reckoning - where the Stones are more at odds than ever with the times and values they’ve always rebelled against.
On 12 July 1962, the Rollin' Stones performed their first-ever gig at London's Marquee jazz club. Down the line, a 'g' was added, a spark was lit and their destiny was sealed. Five white British kids set out to play the music of Black America. They honed a style that bled bluesy undertones into dark insinuations of women, sex and drugs. Denounced as 'corruptors of youth' and 'messengers of the devil', they created some of the most thrilling music ever recorded.
Now, their sound and attitude seem louder and more influential than ever. The Stones may be gathering moss, but on they roll. How did the ultimate anti-establishment misfits become the global brand we know today? Who were the casualties, and what are the forgotten legacies? Can the artist ever be truly divisible from the art?Music journalist and author Lesley-Ann Jones has met and socialised with all of the Stones (apart from the late Brian Jones), visiting a number of their homes, including Keith’s former mountain hideout in Jamaica, and Mick’s house in Mustique, and the book will feature new and first-hand interviews with those closest to the band.As a friend of bassist Bill Wyman during the 1980s, Lesley-Ann did not realise that she had been selected as part of a mixed-age friendship circle assembled to conceal Wyman’s love affair with teenaged Mandy Smith.
Jones said: ‘The Rolling Stones are the root of all rock bands. Their core founding line-up is still going, 60 years on. They created the soundtrack to millions of lives, but the fall-out from their hedonistic, death-defying lifestyle has been immense. It has damaged and even destroyed many women, children and band associates. The band themselves, meanwhile, have rocked on regardless, and have achieved a curious respectability in old age. Their frontman Mick Jagger, once the most anti-Establishment of them all, is now a knight of the realm. I set out to discover why we still revere the Stones, even though they represent so much that we find unacceptable and even abhorrent today.’

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