Ronnie: The Autobiography

Ronnie: The Autobiography
by Ronnie Wood

Ronnie: The Autobiography
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Author: Ronnie Wood
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-02
ISBN: 0312366523
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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Book Review: Charming frank and fascinating
Summary: 5 Stars

There are a lot of rock bios and autobios on the bookshelves these days, and they vary in terms of honesty, depth, quality of writing and of course the general attractiveness of the underlying personalities. Ron Wood's new autobiography must stand as among the very best, a hugely entertaining story about one of rock's true originals, engagingly told, without the kind of bombast or self inflation so typical of rockers (think Gene Simmons).

Wood has been part of British rock since the very beginning, and he knows or knew essentially every musician of importance and plenty of no importance along the way. The book will give you plenty to chew on regarding his time with Jeff Beck, the legendary Faces, and of course the Stones, but it isn't all just music. Wood is at heart clearly a loving family man, and he speaks movingly about his wives, children, his parents, in an utterly human and warm way. His troubles in business, his judgement on managers, his epic involvement with drugs and alcohol, various brushes with the law, and notes on side projects, tours, solo albums, you name it, are all addressed seemingly frankly and without any attempt to settle scores, grind axes, or elicit pity or envy. The man is simply utterly charming, funny, quirky and endearing throughout.

There are innumerable anecdotes, vignettes, and asides about life with some of rock's more volatile and, um, interesting personalities; about what it feels like to freebase cocaine; about drug dealers hovering around the Stones; and about millions squandered and millions made; even his kids. Episodes glossed over elsewhere (the Margaret Trudeau affair, the New Barbarians tour, drug bust in St Maarten, the death of John Belushi, etc) are all here somewhere. All of it is told with good humor in Wood's voice, illustrated with his own sketches of places and people, and a generous amount of color photos you've never seen before.

If you have the slightest interest in Wood, the Faces or the Stones, you will absolutely treasure this book.

Summary of Ronnie: The Autobiography

For the first time, a member of the world?s most famous rock ?n? roll band tells his?and their?story.  Raw, unsanitized, nasty and fascinating. An incredible journey.
 
The first of his family to be born on dry land, Ronnie Wood came from a family of water gypsies and was raised in a council flat near Heathrow Airport. Growing up only wanting to paint and play music, Wood was always talented. And in the 1960?s, he was often in the right place at precisely the right time?becoming the  guitar player for everyone from the Birds to Jeff Beck to the Faces and then to Rod Stewart . But Wood and his guitar-playing became super-charged when he joined The Rolling Stones. They were rock royalty from their earliest days, and from the first time Wood performed with the band, careening down New York City?s Fifth Avenue on a flatbed truck Wood has been at the center of the court and in the middle of the ferment.  No band has ever combined the Stones? success--both artistically and materially?with their longevity.  No other band has ever survived the creativity and clashes of such big personalities.
 
But with success came excess?and as mayhem and hysteria followed Ronnie on his adventures through the extremes of rock ?n roll, the drugs got harder and his relationships?especially with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the women in his life?became increasingly complex.
 
A fascinating portrait not just of the Stones, but of the greatest rockers of the 1960?s and beyond?from Eric Clapton to Rod Stewart, Jimmy Page to Keith Moon, Jimi Hendrix to Pete Townshend?RONNIE is a rich, revelatory book. Readers have never had a view of the rock world like this before.
 

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