Although his 1970 profile of Furry Lewis received the annual '' Playboy '' Best Nonfiction Award , Booth retreated to a cabin in the Boston Mountains of Newton County , Arkansas for many years following a 1971 drug conviction of a year 's probation . Subsequent setbacks , including circumspection toward the group 's 1972 American tour ( which he attempted to cover but ultimately castigated as " an ugly scene full of amyl nitrate , Quaaludes , tequila sunrises , cocaine , heroin , and too many pistoleros , and it left me with more material than I could ever use " ) , precipitated a long creative interregnum typified by " clinical depression , drug problems and domestic upheaval " ; these problems were exacerbated by a LSD-induced back injury in 1978 . Nevertheless , his long-gestating account of the 1969 tour ( '' Dance with the Devil : The Rolling Stones and Their Times '' , later republished as '' The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones '' ) was finally released to rapturous reviews in 1984 . However , the book 's effusive reception ( including plaudits from Richards , who has characterized the book as " the only one I can read and say , ' Yeah , that 's how it was ... ' " ) belied lingering contractual issues that ensured Booth made " next to nothing " from his work
1972 American tour
The Rolling Stones American Tour 1972
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