
"By turns earnest and wicked, sweet and sarcastic and unsparing,Mr. Richards, now 66, writes with uncommon candor andimmediacy....He gives us an indelible, time-capsule feel for themadness that was life on the road with the Stones in the yearsbefore and after Altamont; harrowing accounts of his many closeshaves and narrow escapes (from the police, prison time, drughell); and a heap of sharp-edged snapshots of friends andcolleagues...But Life ...is way more than a revealing showbizmemoir. It is also a high-def, high-velocity portrait of the erawhen rock 'n' roll came of age, a raw report from deep inside thecounterculture maelstrom of how that music swept like a tsunamiover Britain and the United States. It's an eye-opening all-nighterin the studio with a master craftsman disclosing the alchemicalsecrets of his art. And it's the intimate and moving story of oneman's long strange trip over the decades, told in dead-on, visceralprose without any of the pretense, caution or self-consciousnessthat usually attend
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