<p>A miracle of still-plentiful hair, raw sex-appeal, and strutting talent . The frontman of one of the most influential and controversial groups of all time. A musical genius with a career spanning over four decades. He is a testament to British glamour, the ultimate architect and demi-god of rock. Bestselling biographer Philip Norman offers an unparalleled account of the life of a living legend, Mick Jagger. From Home Counties schoolboy, to rebel without a cause to Sixties rock sensation and global idol, Norman unravels with astonishing intimacy the myth of the inimitable frontman of The Rolling Stones. MICK JAGGER charts his extraordinary journey through scandal-ridden conspiracy, infamous prison spell, hordes of female admirers and a knighthood while stripping away the colossal fame, wealth and idolatry to reveal a story of talent and promise unfulfilled. Understated yet ostentatious; the ultimate incarnation of modern man's favourite fantasy: 'sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll', yet blessed with taste and intelligence; a social chameleon who couldn't blend in if he tried; always moving with the Jagger swagger yet modest enough to be self-deprecating, Mick was a paradoxical energy that reconfigured the musical landscape. This revelatory tour de force is ample tribute to a flawed genius, a Casanova, an Antichrist and a god who, with characteristic nonchalance realised the dreams of thousands of current contenders and rocker pretenders, longevity, while coasting on a sea of fur rugs.</p>

Mick Jagger: Satan from Suburbia

Biographies & Memoirs

PHILIP NORMAN

Arts & Literature

Harpercollins

The Stones: The Acclaimed Biography

EVERYONE'S GONE TO THE MOON

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Arrow

Buddy: The definitive biography of Buddy Holly

Arts & Photography

Music

Pan/Macmillan

Awful Moments

Elm Tree Books

Pieces of Hate

The Stones

Macmillan, UK

At the top for over three decades, Eltons career began as Reg Dwight pounding the piano in a Pinner pub, and perhaps reached its apotheosis with Goodbye Englands Rose at the funeral of his close friend, Diana, Princess of Wales. In between weve seen it all: the glittering costumes, the indestructible classics, the sky-high boots, the draining addictions, the failed marriage, the coming out. Its an epic, which requires the pen of a master storyteller to do it justice. The updated Sir Elton is now back in print, and of it Elton has said, Hes got me spot on!

Sir Elton : The Definitive Biography of Elton John

Philip Norman's family considered themselves genteel yet somehow became involved in the opportunistic world of seaside trade on the Isle of Wight. With masterly skill, Norman recreates his upbringing among this gallery of social misfits - his handsome but unstable father Clive, once a dashing RAF officer, now a reluctant showman at the end of Ryde Pier, his pub-owning Uncle Phil, who dresses as a woman every New Year's Eve, and his irresistible Grandma Norman who presides over her rock kiosk and rules the troubled family like a Mafia don. The year is 1953. While Britain celebrates the coronation, ten-year-old Philip watches disaster approach in his father's obsession with Joan, the Bronze Medal roller skating champion. Finally, he concocts a stratagem to win his parents' attention which explodes spectacularly in his face . . . Funny and poignant, Babycham Night evokes the joys and heartache of childhood, and takes the reader on a nostalgic trip back to a lost era, when the Isle of Wight was an exotic holiday location and Babycham the height of sophistication. 'Spellbinding memoir of a Fifties childhood by one of Britain's most stylish writers' Daily Mail 'Beautifully written . . . so vivid you can taste the teacakes' Time Out 'So richly vivid are his general recollections that practically every passing reference draws us deeper into a childhood world' Financial Times

Babycham Night : A Boyhood at the End of the Pier

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