Ronnie: The Autobiography

Ronnie: The Autobiography
by Ronnie Wood

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

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Book Review: the most poorly edited book I've ever read
Summary: 1 Stars

I bought this book mostly because I wanted to read stories about Ron's days with The Faces. I saw them play many times and they were one of my favorite live bands back in the late 70's.

I'm sure that Ron Wood's story is interesting and compelling on many levels, but this book is a waste. Disorganized doesn't begin to cover how haphazardly this book is assembled. It doesn't work as history, it doesn't work as adventure, and it barely works as biography. It works best as an exercise in cluelessness, as Ron doesn't seem to have any idea how screwed up he sounds. One minute he's writing about how spectacularly broke he is, then within two sentences he's talking about flying off for a tropical vacation somewhere. Supposedly earthshattering events in his life are covered in one sentence (the deaths of loved ones is used to justify more drugs and booze). Having to take his wife to the hospital when she went into labor is literally an interruption to his partying. His chapter about drug treatment reveals no insight at all. We learn little about Stone's tours other than that each one was the best ever. Ron, your own words make you sound incredibly stupid. A train wreck from start to finish.

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.
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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.
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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.
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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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