Ravi sits down with legendary music biographer Bob Spitz, who pulls back the curtain on rock’s biggest icons and the forces that made them endure. From secret blues records on military bases to the calculated creation of the “anti-Beatles,” they unpack the hidden strategy behind the Rolling Stones’ rise. The conversation dives into chaos—addiction, ego, death, and disaster—and asks how the Stones survived what destroyed everyone else. A sharp, unvarnished look at what it takes to become—and remain—arguably the greatest rock band in the world.
Bob Spitz’s The Rolling Stones
More books by Bob Spitz
Led Zeppelin: The Biography (2021)
Reagan: An American Journey (2018)
DEARIE: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child (2012)
The Beatles: The Biography (2005)
Barefoot In Babylon (1989)
Dylan: A Biography (1988)
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