Martin Bandyke Under Covers for November 2022: Martin interviews Lesley-Ann Jones, author of The Stone Age: Sixty Years of The Rolling Stones.
b'On 12th July 1962, the Rollin\\u2019 Stones performed their first-ever gig at London\\u2019s Marquee jazz club. Down the line, a \\u2018g\\u2019 was added, a spark was lit and their destiny was sealed. No going back.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nThese five white British kids set out to play the music of black America. They honed a style that bled bluesy undertones into dark insinuations of women, sex, and drugs. Denounced as \\u2018corruptors of youth\\u2019 and \\u2018messengers of the devil,\\u2019 they created some of the most thrilling music ever recorded.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nNow their sound and attitude seem louder and more influential than ever. Elvis is dead and the Beatles are over, but Jagger and Richards bestride the world. The Stones may be gathering moss, but on they roll.\\xa0 Yet how did the ultimate anti-establishment misfits become the global brand we know today? Who were the casualties, and what are the forgotten legacies? Can the artist ever be truly divisible from the art?\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nLesley-Ann Jones\\u2019s new history tracks this contradictory, disturbing and unstoppable band through hope, glory and exile, into the juggernaut years and beyond into rock\\u2019s ongoing reckoning . . . where the Stones seem more at odds than ever with the values and heritage against which they have always rebelled. Good, bad, and often ugly, here are the Rolling Stones as never seen before.\\n\\n\\n\\nLesley-Ann Jones is an acclaimed author, journalist and broadcaster who spent more than 20 years as a national newspaper journalist on Fleet Street, longtime home of the British national press.\\n\\n\\n\\nMartin\\u2019s interview with Lesley-Ann Jones was recorded on September 7th, 2022.'