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Ethan Russell – Let It Bleed: The Rolling Stones 1969 U.S. Tour It’s not a limited edition CD, but we’ve got an amazing piece of rock history here and want to make sure all you Rhino Handmade folks get first crack at it! Let It Bleed: The Rolling Stones 1969 U.S. Tour is Rhino’s first foray into the world of high-end music/art books. Authored by renowned photographer Ethan Russell (who shot such iconic album covers as Who’s Next and The Beatles‘ Let It Be), the new book follows The Rolling Stones and the intimate cadre that supported them as they crisscrossed America in the waning days of the 1960s.
In 1969 The Stones were hitting a creative peak, and working within a music business that had yet to ossify. The story behind the band’s pivotal tour that year is finally told through intimate first-hand narrative, exclusive interviews, and unpublished vintage photographs in Let It Bleed. Beginning with some of the last photos taken of Brian Jones before his death, to the chaotic crowd at Altamont Speedway, these 420 pages capture the exciting moments, the quiet moments, and the tragic moments that marked the journey.
“There were only 16 of us,” Russell writes, “including the five Rolling Stones, and our average age was 26. We were from Sweden, London’s East End, Boston, the Okefenokee Swamp, East L.A., San Francisco, Miami. We were English, American, Scots, Swedish, and middle-class, privileged, poor, black, idealistic, and criminal. You could easily imagine that lives as disparate as ours, as geographically separate, would never cross. What could bring us together?,” asks Russell in the preface to Let It Bleed. As the band would sing just a few years later, “only rock ’n‘ roll.”
Let It Bleed documents that music through all its highs and lows with eyewitness accounts and some of the most breathtaking color and B/W rock photography ever seen – 80% of which has never been published. The oversized (15” x 12”) collector’s edition book is limited to 2600 copies, each signed and numbered by Ethan Russell. The first 750 are presented as a Deluxe Edition, boxed in an impressive 16-3/4”x 19” x 5” crimson clamshell case and containing a signed and numbered, hand-made gelatin silver print. Crafted to the highest standards using superior materials, these editions match the exceptional content with the finest quality paper, binding, inks, and printing – only the best for “The World’s Greatest Rock & Roll Band.”
Let It Bleed: The Rolling Stones 1969 U.S. Tour is available for $650.00 as a Standard Edition and for $950.00 as a Deluxe Edition. Pre-order yours now at:
www.LetItBleedBook.com
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