' This is our story of fifty fantastic years We started out as a blues band playing the clubs & more recently we've filled the largest stadiums in the world with the kind of show that none of us could have imagined all those years ago Curated by us it features the very best photographs & ephemera from & beyond our archives' Mick Keith Charlie & Ronnie On Thursday 12 July 1962 the Rolling Stones went on stage at the Marquee Club in London's Oxford Street In the intervening fifty years the Stones have performed live in front of more people than any bandever They've played the smallest blues clubs & some of the biggest stadium tours of all time They've had No 1 singles & albums in every country that has a popular music chart & have helped define global popular culture A phenomenal half-century later they now look back at their astounding career Curated introduced & narrated by the band themselves The Rolling Stones 50 is the only officially authorized book to celebrate this milestone With privileged access to a wealth of unseen & rare material it is packed with superb reportage photography contact sheets negative strips outtakes & so much more from every period in the band's history With more than 1000 illustrations it also features some of the most rare & interesting Stones memorabilia in existence international posters draft record cover art bubblegum cards jigsaws & other previously unpublished treasures specially photographed for this volume The ephemera comes from the greatest Rolling Stones collection in the world which belongs to Ali Zayeri Featuring photography from the Daily Mirror's archive & with contributions by photography legends Gered Mankowitz Jean-Marie Perier Dezo Hoffmann Michael Cooper Terry O' Neill Bent Rej Philip Townsend & many others this is the definitive celebration of fifty years of the Rolling Stones From Mick Keith Charlie & Ronnie
- here is one spectacular thank you to their fans all over the world