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Victor Bockris' much admired biography of Keith Richards has been constantly revised since its original publication in eight countries in 1992.
Here are the true facts behind Richards' battles with his demons: the women, the drugs and the love-hate relationship with Mick Jagger. Details his struggle with heroin and his status as the rock star most likely to die in the 1970s through to his scarcely believable rebirth as a family man in the 80s.
Illuminated with revealing quotes and thoughtful insights into the man behind the band that goes on forever.
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Here, accompanied by dozens of unique photographs, are the very best of Victor Bockris's infamous interviews, essays, and observations on the stars of downtown Manhattan in the 1970s and 1980s. The internationally acclaimed biographer Bockris was there as a witness, friend, collaborator, and co-conspirator. Some of the stars were founding members of Beat or Punk, others were just passing through. But all of them--rockers, rebels, artists, and intellectuals--revealed more to Bockris than they did to any other writer: Allen Ginsberg, Richard Hell, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Debbie Harry,...

The Velvet Underground is arguably one of the most influential American rock bands ever. Based on interviews with former members Lou Reed, John Cale, and Sterling Morrison, as well as others from Andy Warhol's circle of artistic collaborators, Up-Tight is the definitive oral and visual history of the band and its revolutionary, often avant-garde music. Bockris and Malanga's intelligent and entertaining approach-which does not shy away from the drugs, sleaze, and controversy that enveloped the band seemingly from its inception-provides compulsive reading.