Leaving Stones Unturned
Bob Spitz has compiled a press-cuttings history of the Rolling Stones. Like much of their music, it is hacked together from other people's work, though Spitz at least gives attribution. The Rolling Stones is conventional rockographical stuff: a heroic legend, sensibly frontloaded. The first 350 of Spitz's 600 pages carry the band from postwar English childhoods to early success and the death by water of Brian Jones in July 1969. The next 200 pages describe the tax-dodging and depravity of their…

