Bob Spitz on the Rolling Stones and why all great music is a threat

From their earliest days as blues-obsessed kids living in freezing squalor, to the first taste of fame and the day they landed in the US and went stratospheric — and all the grit, glamour and gore in between. There are myriad revisions to the conventional narrative which underscore just how in control of their narrative the band has been up to now. But Bob Spitz got unique access to the group's friends and family. And he's sharing the details and examines a creative force whose power shows no signs of fading, over sixty years on.

Presented at the Free Library of Philadelphia

Speakers

Bob Spitz

American journalist and author of Rolling Stones, The Biography

Dan DeLuca

Pop music critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer