Title: If you're a Stones fan you gotta get this one!
Review: It may sound like a cliche, but this is an insider account in the truest sense. James Phelge lived with Mick, Keith and Brian in the infamous Edith Grove flat, and became part of Stones folklore. He relates endless anecdotes of what it was like to live with them before the superstar days, when they were literally starving artists. At the end of the book I got the sense that I really knew the four flatmates, a rare experience when reading a biography. A fascinating subplot is the formation of the Jagger-Richards-Jones triad, the driving force behind the early Stones, and the seeds of its destruction, all witnessed close-up by Phelge. The account is honest without being muck-raking; nor is Phelge a sycophant. Definitely worth a read.
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