Good grief, that is an impressive collection of Stones books!

I've got quite a few of those books you have. I knew Jim Marshall and went to his place in San Francisco to buy some of his iconic photographs. He also gave me some of his books another time and signed them for me. Nice job on your growing Rolling Stones book collection, very impressive.

I thought the number of Stones books I have was ridiculous for an adult man. Your collection is simply incredible. However, my highlight is the socks. Beautiful Man! 🙂

Thank You, did not know a book on the 81-tour existed. My favorite tour. found it and going to order it.

Cool, another Rolling Stones video! I think I have been watching your channel for almost a month now, and I have watched pretty much every Stones video you have done. My dad and I are excited to see them in Houston, and we can't wait!

I’ve got a few of the Stones books you showed but man, you’ve got a library full !! The Richard’s book and the Stones gear books are my favorites!!!

Hi Alan I like your rolling stones books 😮 WOW but I have a lot of stones books also mine go back from 1967 to the present I am so happy that I got to text a stones real fan like I am I know I have a lot of money but I Just can't sell them thank you again Alan ❤

Thank you for video! I have some of the books too. My first book about the Stones was James Hectors book, and it changed my life.

I love beautiful coffee table tomes, and you’ve got the mother lode when it comes to my favorite rock ‘n’ roll band, The Rolling Stones. Your collection knocks me out. Your mid-sized books are also impressive, especially the “Exhibitionism” catalog. I thought that exhibit was fabulous and wish I had purchased the catalog as a souvenir. As for the small books that are great to curl up with on a couch, my favorite is “Up and Down with The Rolling Stones,” despite the liberties that Tony Sanchez surely took with some (if not many) so-called truths. Nevertheless, The Stones have been connected with varying levels of deliciously “real” decadence, and the book is a helluva fun read. Like you, I enjoy the special takes that Bill Wyman offers in his books. The book you have on the quotes of Keith Richards would certainly amuse me. After reading each quote, I’d imagine hearing his one-of-a-kind guttural laugh-growl, which punctuates so much of what he says.

Way to go Alan, the super Geeks like us add the books to our collectible just like the music. I find that there are not as many book collectors / readers then I thought. great to see this thanks for showing. keep them coming. I am up there also in the count. Something I know my kids would donate. As you know it is a challenge to filter out what is true and not on some of them.

I just finished reading according to The Rolling Stones and loved it

You have an amazing collection of books. I really enjoyed that Rolling Stones 50 Licks book. I started to get into the band more around 2019 and got that book in 2020. I think it is a nice overview of their career

Great video Alan, thanks for putting it out, also thanks very much for the mention.

Great stuff Alan!

In the time before the internet existed, these Books have a completely different meaning for Music Fans! It wasn't always easy to get them, the same with Bootlegs! Somehow i loved that time!

I have 8 of the ones you mentioned. Also an earlier version of Complete Recording Sessions, through Steel Wheels. I have a couple others; Black & White Blues 1963, photos by Gus Coral, text David Hinckley & Debra Rodman, pictures of their UK tour with the Everly Brothers, Bo Diddley & Little Richard. Also Stanley Booth's True Adventures of the Rolling Stones from the 1969 tour. I used to have Blown Away (don't remember the author) but I threw it out, real tabloid material. Because I have Tony Sanchez's book (Keith calls it "Grimm's Fairy Tales"), I didn't need two of them. My brother had the Unauthorized Biography and Illustrated Record but don't think he has them anymore, they were falling apart. My favorite: Bill's Rolling With the Stones. I must have gone to the same New Barbarians show you did at MSG. The highlight: Keef singing Sure the One You Need.

Great collection Alan. I also have that big Taschen photo book on the Stones as well Genesis Publications ‘Tour of the Americas 75’. One of my favourite essays on the Stones is in Nick Kent’s ‘The Dark Stuff’.

Great video Alan! You made me realise how many Stones books I have myself. A few I don’t think you mentioned - recent Unzipped coffee table book, the controversial Jagger biography by Anthony Scaduto and the brilliant Stanley Booth book about the 69 tour. SB also did a book on Keith. Robert Greenfield did a book on EOMS and I recently picked up a book he wrote on the 71 farewell British tour called Ain’t it time we said goodbye. Great idea for a series! Where do you keep all this stuff 😅??

Very impressive collection as always, Alan! I must say, there were three or four 'oddball' books that I was wondering if you would bring up--and sure enough you did, with one exception. But first, the ones you did have: Barbara Charone's Keith bio has been in my collection since I found it in the discount bin at my university book store in 1984; the hard cover "The Rolling Stones in Concert" with the 1976 photo on the front--mainly a picture book I acquired in 1983; Chet Flippo's "On the Road", which I thought was a very entertaining and informative read, in 1985--at least it was straight reportage, and his efforts to secure credentials at El Mocambo were engaging; and the one you did NOT have, Mandy Aftel's Brian Jones bio "Life as a Rolling Stone", also acquired from a cut out bin at my university bookstore in 1984. Now I know the wealth of books written on the Stones is substantial, and I have purposefully AVOIDED buying any of the coffee table books you reviewed--some of them I like, some of them are just pictorial or vanity projects that offered minimal insight, in my opinion, hence I avoided them. Plus, I would have no place to keep them...however a few of them I thought interesting and necessary: the massive "50"; the hardcover "Gear" book; and Bill Wyman's "Rolling with the Stones", which bore a strikingly similar feel to the Beatles' 'Anthology'--surprise surprise, even being released shortly thereafter. In my youth, I read Stones bios like crazy, anxious for anything that was published about them...and thinking back, most of them were incredibly unsatisfying. The first was, of course, Tony Sanchez' Up and Down--which I read and re-read multiple times throughout my years in high school, and beyond. I made the mistake of taking that narrative as some sort of Bible on the Stones (and it is not, especially his poorly detailed photographs)...in so much that his opinions ended up informing my own opinions of the band for many years--a fault of being an uninformed teenager, at that. But I STILL have the Signet paperback I got of that title back in 1980...and it is completely beat to shit--frayed, dog-eared corners, completely split spine, loose pages....I should get another copy, if only to have one copy in decent shape. It was a book that I passed around too, turning many of my close friends into Stones fans upon doing so. I was a little surprised you did not have more of the individual bios that have been written on the band, despite most of them being fairly typical, but the ones I have still remain on my shelf: Philip Norman's 'Symphony for the Devil', which even in 1984, I thought pretty much sucked. Phil Norman was (and remains) one of the most revered music bio writers from the UK, having shot to fame with the best seller "Shout!" in 1982, he tried his hand on the Stones a couple of years later, producing primarily a long, dry wikipedia entry, if you asked me. Also, it was during this time that I lost virtually all interest in reading Stones bios because most of them seem to tell the story up to the '69 tour...and the rest of their career is basically summed up in one chapter; Stanley Booth's at times harrowing "Dance With the Devil" (another terrible title), that could/SHOULD have been a great book, had it been given a do-over by a proper editor, and had the author given his manuscript more voice. This title too, I have read and re-read many times over the last 40 years, including another go round just last year--and I wasn't able to finish it. I thought his plotting of the book (alternating chapters of his then-current efforts to secure a book deal to write about the Stones while on the '69 tour, with chapters detailing their history and rise to fame) was brilliant, with the intersecting chapters perfectly coalescing at the climax of the story. However (and the book has received significant praise from writers of a more literary persuasions, as well as seasoned rock journalists), I think, strictly from a style standpoint, the chapters detailing their history did not have the same voice as his narrative chapters on the challenges of the tour. All too often, those chapters read as, basically, long quotes from either Richards, Ian Stewart, Shirley Arnold or Jo Bergman, interspersed with dry biographical detail. Plus, too much of the writing was almost clunky, even unclear--almost too much like a journal entry. And it takes away from what could have been a more moving picture. I know those interviews with those individuals were the basic research of the book, but I think he needed to give those chapters more of a narrative feel, rather than just 'explanation'. I know it took a long time for Booth to publish this book (15 years), and he suffered many personal and professional setbacks along the way, but I thought being published by Random House that one of their 'red pencil guys' would have suggested the same--but apparently, I get the feeling they let his manuscript stand, thinking the raw, almost 'new journalism' style was best suited to this subject--it was, but it still needed a real voice, not just verbatim quotes. And it seemed that Booth and the publishers wanted a more 'literary' style book, with each chapter beginning with a quote from some other work of literature, or historical manuscript, including the jarring detail of arriving at Altamont with the Maysel brothers on the morning of December 6, introducing each of the books three sections. These touches give the book more of a feel of, say, Norman Mailer's journalistic pieces, or early Tom Wolfe--and from reading the book, I feel that was Booth's intention--his poignant detailing of Kerouac's death during this same time seemed to give away his literary intentions. It has been reprinted a couple of different times, with the more generic title "The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones", and despite its flaws, I think stands as a great volume of rock music writing, and a great detail of the sweep the Stones had over culture during this time. Check Joel Selvin's 'Altamont' for a new take on the crux of Booth's story. And I too LOVED David Dalton's 'First 20 Years", in part because it was so unlike anything else at that time, and spent months buried in it's rag-tag mash up of newspaper headlines, magazine pieces, paste and clips and send ups that had me wondering for the longest time if much of that stuff was pure fiction--this was before I realized most of what was in that book had been published in previous periodicals. And I remember the blue chip day when I finally managed to save up $40 and ran to Waldenbooks to buy Robert Palmer's coffee table bio (the one with the 'Black and Blue' cover), only to find it, aside from the beautiful photography, a pretty run of the mill narrative. I'll give a special shout out to Graham Gordon's 'Rebels with a Cause' if only because it is a recent book that focuses on their early recordings, and Paul Trynka's Brian Jones bio "The Making of the Rolling Stones". I have still not read Stephen Davis' "Old Gods Almost Dead" though it has been recommended to me, and pretty well reviewed. I am somewhat biased against author Davis because of how often he went out of his way to trash the Stones in his lame Zep bio, 'Hammer of the Dorks'...but I best not digress further. Interested to hear your take on any of those titles, Alan!

Keith’s book is a hoot!

Dang, what a collection! I have a few, Imagines of the world tour 1989 (Steel Wheels), Life on the road, According to, Let it bleed, “standard” edition. Got it for 150, down from 600 or something. Huge and heavy with beautiful slipcase. My fav is also the Bill Wyman one. Got a signed edition with a Christmas card also signed by him, directly from his store. I also love Stephen Davis’ Old Gods Almost Dead. How about showing tour programs?

Uncut and Mojo are hands down the Best Magazines. I've got boxes of them. I need 2 issues of the History of Rock-Though

Alan you Sir you have my T shirt and rolling stones cap on yes I have also got the rolling stones clothes also I have boxes of books of stones and rolling stones albums and 45 fives from the 1967 years too now but I like all kinds of music not only the rolling stones records but all music. Terry M. In Pennsylvania. PS, i have seen the stones so many times Please let me know about the show my stones fan friend Alan

The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth . Keith " Yeah, that's how it was !!

Amazing Stones library Alan! I only have a couple of those. Bill Wyman and also his biography, Stone Alone. That red, in their own words, book. Keith Richards biography. But yeah, wow…

thats an impressive collection. however im starting to think that Mrs Rosenberg has to keep all her stuff in her car.

What is the definitive Rolling Stones Biography

Up and down with the rolling stones rings true so does stones touring party

Hey Allen...great video....I have a lot of those books...the Recording sessions Martin Elliott book is essential.....the Tony Sanchez book is hilarious....I'm pretty sure that's the book where on tour in the hotel rooms roadies and others would service the coked up queen Pallenburg while she was laying next to a passed out oblivious Keef.....haha.....Wyman's Blues Odyssey is a fantastic book and movie....Stone Alone is him just crying about money....hey Bill....yougottabekiddinme....one book you didn't mention was Jo Wood It's Only Rock and Roll....some hilarious accounts of Richards coming over to their house and him and Woody and Belushi staying up for days and days.....the one book that I'm really down on though is Keef erasing from history and not talking about Live Aid....where Jagger shone like a star with Tina Turner and Keef and Woody ...looking like burnt out parodies of their former selves took the stage with a fossilized Bob Dylan ...all with acoustic guitars making complete and utter fools of themselves....this was a pivotal moment in Stones history because Jagger was hell bent on going solo and being another Rod Stewart...claiming the rest of the band was drugged out old guys....Richards doesn't mention any of this but Woody certainly does in his excellent book in a very humorous way....thanks..

I am having trouble sending messages again. They keep disappearing after they post. I hate it when that happens. I have a lot of those books even though I a a grown man😂🤣 I love lummi TV's comments!! He's watching your socks too!

My God Alan where do you find time to play music plus reading all these lol

I’m shocked at how many of these i have!!

Spanish Tony's Up and Down book is simply too believable to not have happened. Same with Stone Alone. Most of what I think is authoritative about the Stones is in those two books.

After seeing this video I got that Rolling With The Stones book and that thing must weigh 15 pounds. 3:16

That nobody will buy. I have lots