The Autobiography
by Ronnie Wood
The first of his family to be born on dry land, Ronnie Wood came from a family of water gypsies and was raised in a council flat near Heathrow Airport. Growing up only wanting to paint and play music, Wood was always talented. And in the 1960s, he was often in the right place at precisely the right timebecoming the guitar player for everyone from the Birds to Jeff Beck to the Faces and then to Rod Stewart. But Wood and his guitar-playing became super-charged when he joined The Rolling Stones. They were rock royalty from their earliest days, and from the first time Wood performed with the band, careening down New York Citys Fifth Avenue on a flatbed truck Wood has been at the center of the court and in the middle of the ferment. No band has ever combined the Stones success--both artistically and materiallywith their longevity. No other band has ever survived the creativity and clashes of such big personalities.
But with success came excessand as mayhem and hysteria followed Ronnie on his adventures through the extremes of rock n roll, the drugs got harder and his relationshipsespecially with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the women in his lifebecame increasingly complex.
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