Robert Greenfield, who wrote the rather trashy but fun STP: A Journey Through America With the Rolling Stones back in the 1970s, has just published the rather trashy but fun book of the same title as this thread. I just finished it, and I would give it 3 stars out of 5. It is sensationalistic and most of the information is culled from rather unreliable sources (Spanish Tony, for one, Keith's junk connection back in those days). There is very, very little about the music of Exile itself, and a whole lot on the drugs and craziness that made up the life of our errant hero, Keef, while he and the rest of the band mostly did not do much while they were supposed to be recording Exile on Main Street in Nellcotte.
If you read it, post your reactions here. Or not. But I thought it'd be fun to hear what other Stones fans think of it.
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