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Bill Wyman stopped counting at 1,800. Keith Richards held up four fingers. And Mick Jagger figured his number landed somewhere in the hundreds. That was the scene, biographer Bob Spitz tells it, when three aging Rolling Stones sat down one day to compare notes on the women who had passed through their lives. The anecdote […] The post Rolling Stones biographer reveals band members' vastly different romantic lives — and one staggering tally appeared first on American Almanac .
Bill Wyman stopped counting at 1,800. Keith Richards held up four fingers. And Mick Jagger figured his number landed somewhere in the hundreds. That was the scene, biographer Bob Spitz tells it, when three aging Rolling Stones sat down one day to compare notes on the women who had passed through their lives. The anecdote anchors a broader portrait in Spitz's new book, "The Rolling Stones: The Biography," which peels back decades of carefully cultivated rock-and-roll mythology to reveal just how differently each member of the world's most famous band lived behind the curtain. The picture that emerges is less a uniform tale of excess than a study in contrasts, and, in several cases, a record of conduct that no amount of guitar riffs should…Open