For the first time, a member of the world€s most famous rock €˜n€ roll band tells his€"and their€"story.  Raw, unsanitized, nasty and fascinating. An incredible journey.
 
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 1960€s, he was often in the right place at precisely the right time€"becoming 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 City€s 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 materially€"with their longevity.  No other band has ever survived the creativity and clashes of such big personalities.
 
But with success came excess€"and as mayhem and hysteria followed Ronnie on his adventures through the extremes of rock €˜n roll, the drugs got harder and his relationships€"especially with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the women in his life€"became increasingly complex.
 
A fascinating portrait not just of the Stones, but of the greatest rockers of the 1960€s and beyond€"from Eric Clapton to Rod Stewart, Jimmy Page to Keith Moon, Jimi Hendrix to Pete Townshend€"RONNIE is a rich, revelatory book. Readers have never had a view of the rock world like this before.