The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years

 The Rolling Stones' merchandise, rather than their music, has ensured their survival


: In the beginning, rock music boasted that it was sponsoring a classless Britain. The Stones took a bumptious delight in buying their country estates from down-and-out aristocrats, though soon enough they reconstituted the ancien régime. Charlie Watts retained a chauffeur to ferry him around in a Mini. Jagger did his social climbing horizontally; not content with the groupies called Susie Suck and Kathy Kleevage, he graduated to "hobnobbing", as Sandford delicately puts it, with Princess Margaret.

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The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years by Christopher Sandford – review | Books | The Observer