Exile On Main Street, Robert Greenfield, The Paperback Bookshop, Melbourne, Australia

Recorded during the blazing hot summer of 1971 at Villa Nellcate, Keith Richards's seaside mansion in southern France, Exile on Main Street has been hailed as one of the greatest rock records of all time. In self-imposed exile, the Stones-along with wives, girlfriends, and hangers-on-spent their days smoking, snorting, and drinking whatever they could get their hands on, while at night, the basement studio became the crucible in which creative strife, outsized egos, and all the usual by products of the Stones' legendary hedonistic excess fused into something potent, volatile, and enduring. Recorded during the blazing hot summer of 1971 at Villa Nellcate, Keith Richards's seaside mansion in southern France, Exile on Main Street has been hailed as one of the greatest rock records of all time. In self-imposed exile, the Stones-along with wives, girlfriends, and hangers-on-spent their days smoking, snorting, and drinking whatever they could get their hands on, while at night, the basement studio became the crucible in which creative strife, outsized egos, and all the usual by products of the Stones' legendary hedonistic excess fused into something potent, volatile, and enduring.