A diarist since the age of 9, Wyman first drew upon those sources for his 1990 autobiography, Stone Alone: The Story of a Rock and Roll Band, and his dutifully dry record-keeping approach is also in evidence here. Wyman began collecting memorabilia in 1962 as future proof for his then-baby boy that he'd once been in a rock-and-roll band he reportedly now has 500,000 Stones-related items filling several warehouses. "Mick, Keith and Charlie are forever telling people to check things with me, as I'm the only one who really remembers what happened," writes Wyman, but the band's long-time bassist (he quit in 1993) is less blessed with prodigious recall than with a packrat-archivist mindset. Now, the other two megagroups to come out of England in the '60s, the Rolling Stones and The Who, get the same coffee table treatment.īill Wyman's Rolling With the Stones (DK Publishing, $50) is an astounding collection, with 3,000 photos and illustrations that capture the band's hardscrabble early years under the influence of American blues, r&b and rock-and-roll, and trace its inexorable evolution into a rock institution now celebrating its 40th anniversary. The Beatles Anthology (published in 1997 and just out in paperback) established a new standard for exhaustively researched, obsessively detailed, copiously illustrated (and appropriately priced) band chronicles.
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