Bent Rej

For a book that is full of admittedly contrived photos and covering such a short period of the Rolling Stones' career, I found this collection of images quite endearing. Rej portrays the Stones at a time before the rock and roll lifetyle came to dominate their story - so early in fact that the Stones look like fresh-faced babies in many of the photos. Contrary to the already crude and provocative words that were coming out of their mouths, of course, as they were always a little bit outside of the mainstream, but even stories of their allegedly poor behavior chronicled by Rej seem tame in comparison to their later escapades. Definitely a worthwhile collection.… (mehr)