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Parachute women : Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the women behind the Rolling Stones / Elizabeth Winder.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Hachette Books, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First editionDescription: xii, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781580059589
  • 1580059589
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Contents:
The phoenix -- The songbird -- Traps and troubadours -- Butterflies -- The wilder shores of love -- Children of the moon -- The black queen -- Blonde leather -- My gypsy faerie queen -- The sixth stone -- Performance -- The devil unleashed -- Sister morphine -- On the outside looking in -- Icon -- Black magic -- Death is the ultimate experience -- Boots, birth, breakups -- Not fade away -- The outer circles of hell -- Dead flowers -- Save the tears -- Off the rails Rococo -- Give my love to London.
Summary: Introduces the four women who inspired, styled, wrote for, remixed, and ultimately helped create the legend of the Rolling Stones and transformed them into international stars, but who were themselves marginalized by the male-dominated rock world of the late 60s and early 70s.Summary: The Rolling Stones's innovative music and iconic performances defined a generation. Behind these larger-than-life rock stars were four women who inspired, styled, wrote for, remixed, and ultimately helped create their legend. Winder profiles the contributions that Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, and Anita Pallenberg made to the Rolling Stones, transforming them into international stars-- yet were themselves marginalized by the male-dominated rock world of the late 60s and early 70s. -- adapted from jacket.
List(s) this item appears in: The Day the Music Died | Women's History Month (Adults)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Discover the true story of the four women who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to help shape and curate the image of The Rolling Stones--perfect for fans of Girls Like Us .

The Rolling Stones have long been considered one of the greatest rock-and-roll bands of all time. At the forefront of the British Invasion and heading up the counterculture movement of the 1960s, the Stones' innovative music and iconic performances defined a generation, and fifty years later, they're still performing to sold-out stadiums around the globe. Yet, as the saying goes, behind every great man is a greater woman, and behind these larger-than-life rockstars were four incredible women whose stories have yet to be fully unpacked . . . until now.



In Parachute Women, Elizabeth Winder introduces us to the four women who inspired, styled, wrote for, remixed, and ultimately helped create the legend of the Rolling Stones. Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, and Anita Pallenberg put the glimmer in the Glimmer Twins and taught a group of straight-laced boys to be bad. They opened the doors to subterranean art and alternative lifestyles, turned them on to Russian literature, occult practices, and LSD. They connected them to cutting edge directors and writers, won them roles in art house films that renewed their appeal. They often acted as unpaid stylists, providing provocative looks from their personal wardrobes. They remixed tracks for chart-topping albums, and sometimes even wrote the actual songs. More hip to the times than the rockers themselves, they consciously (and unconsciously) kept the band current--and confident--with that mythic lasting power they still have today.



Lush in detail and insight, and long overdue, Parachute Women is a group portrait of the four audacious women who transformed the Stones into international stars, but who were themselves marginalized by the male-dominated rock world of the late '60s and early '70s. Written in the tradition of Sheila Weller's Girls Like Us , it's a story of lust and rivalries, friendships and betrayals, hope and degradation, and the birth of rock and roll.

Introduces the four women who inspired, styled, wrote for, remixed, and ultimately helped create the legend of the Rolling Stones and transformed them into international stars, but who were themselves marginalized by the male-dominated rock world of the late 60s and early 70s.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-268) and index.

The phoenix -- The songbird -- Traps and troubadours -- Butterflies -- The wilder shores of love -- Children of the moon -- The black queen -- Blonde leather -- My gypsy faerie queen -- The sixth stone -- Performance -- The devil unleashed -- Sister morphine -- On the outside looking in -- Icon -- Black magic -- Death is the ultimate experience -- Boots, birth, breakups -- Not fade away -- The outer circles of hell -- Dead flowers -- Save the tears -- Off the rails Rococo -- Give my love to London.

The Rolling Stones's innovative music and iconic performances defined a generation. Behind these larger-than-life rock stars were four women who inspired, styled, wrote for, remixed, and ultimately helped create their legend. Winder profiles the contributions that Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, and Anita Pallenberg made to the Rolling Stones, transforming them into international stars-- yet were themselves marginalized by the male-dominated rock world of the late 60s and early 70s. -- adapted from jacket.

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