There is one other author aside from Matt Lee who has written the other most-important book on The Rolling Stones, and that is Bill German. Basically, there is a “holy trinity” of Rolling Stones books: Hot Stuff by Lee, Life by Keith Richards and Under Their Thumb: How a Nice Boy from Brooklyn Got Mixed Up with the Rolling Stones (and Lived to Tell About It) by Bill German. Of the three, German’s book is by far the most beloved and revealing book on the Stones ever written.
German’s book takes place in the New York City of the late 1970s, when disco was king and The Rolling Stones were approaching a period where there was much discontent and infighting amongst the band members. With nothing more than a dream and a love of the music, German started his own fanzine called. German would attend every single band-related event that took place in New York and report on it in his ‘zine, while selling it to on his high school mimeograph machine before it became too much for him and had to move it to a proper printing house.
