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 enlarge | Author: Bent Rej
Creator: Bill Wyman
Publisher: Firefly Books
Category: Book
List Price: $49.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 83773
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.6
Dimensions (in): 13 x 10.8 x 1.2
ISBN: 1554072301
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.421660922
EAN: 9781554072309
ASIN: 1554072301
Publication Date: September 12, 2006
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Beginning was great! June 27, 2007
Thanks author and Bill Wyman for their work. Happy to see people from 1960-s. Think, that new volume about Brian Jones' Rolling Stones is great addition to the histiry of the Great Rock'n'roll band and to the history of the our papas and grandfathers' generation. Photos are fine. We can see them only in magazines and fanzines from early 1960s. But quality of prints is better here, in the "RS in the Beginning"
the rolling stones: in the beginning January 11, 2007
Great pictures, many never seen anywhere else. Essential for a Stones fan.
The early stones in photographs January 11, 2007
Nostalgic and revealing, Bent Raj's book is probably for the long-term Stones fan. The youthful innocence, the images of a band not yet having conquered all before them come across clearly and beautifully. The hysteria of the early gigs leaps from the pages. Most wistful of all are the photos of Brian Jones before the fall.
All in all a tome which has you looking forward to the Gered Mancowitz edition of photos as the band move into what Keith called 'the Stones Mach 2.'
Rolling Stones-BOOK-In The Beginning January 3, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Fantastic book-You have every Stones book? This offers photos never published, and if they were, they were in now relatively obscure European Teen Magazines--I was familiar with many of the photos shot by Bent Rej as I have been a Stones collector since day 1-many of the fantastic Stones shots that were on British and European Teen magazine covers-as well as several hundred I've seen IN pages of these magazines (i.e. RAVE, BEAT INSTRUMENTAL, BIG BEAT, etc.) were shot by Bent, and uncreditied-Bent rounded up all of these plus a TON more...Just amazing..great book...great photos...Thanks Bent!! Greg Prevost/Outasite
Really a Lovely Book November 1, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This would make a great gift for the Stones fan on your list.
Rej was a photog & a friend of the Stones in the early days through their initial ascencion (towards the end of the book, they're buying their first country homes and Rollers).
Excellent photos, both color and black & white, and some candid writing on the various Stones (both from the present and contemporaneous). Since the period covered is before things got so strange, before Brian's death, it gives you a sense of how much fun and in a way, small-time it all was at first. Rej actually lived in Brian's house for a time, so the book contains an especially nice portrait of Brian.
As a writer, Rej manages to be non-judgmental but not insipid. For example, you easily grasp from Rej's writing that Brian was a troubled man, but Rej doesn't portray him as *only* that.
It's a very nice complement to Bill Wyman's enjoyably obsessive "I saved every ticket stub from every show we ever did" coffee table book of a few years ago, which was fun in its own right. Wyman contributes occasional photo captions and a forward. One of his captions made me laugh -- a picture of the Stones accepting rather strange-looking awards from a music magazine. The caption concludes with "I still have mine. - Bill"
I'll bet!
A fresh and interesting look at the early Stones, not the same old stuff re-packaged.
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