Stones Touring Party

A journalist who rode along with the Rolling Stones on their 1972 US tour chronicles what he witnessed on and off the stage. The Rolling Stones’ 1972 tour of the United States was perhaps their best—and certainly most notorious—ever. Their previous visit in 1969 had ended in the nightmare of Altamont; now, three years later, they had just recorded their two finest albums, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street , and were musically in their prime—if also personally at their most dissolute and de