Overview

• German outlets on September 28 reported key anecdotes from Siegfried Tesche’s new book, which centers the Rolling Stones’ history on their vehicles.
• Highlighted models from Mick Jagger’s collection include a Mini Cooper S, an Aston Martin DB6 with a built-in record player, a Bentley and a Volvo estate.
• Dick Taylor recalls a near-disaster when brakes failed on a borrowed Riley Pathfinder to the Ealing Jazz Club, with Jagger stopping the car by yanking the handbrake just before the tracks.
• The book recounts later mishaps, including Jagger’s DB6 being struck in 1966 and Keith Richards crashing a Bentley into a garden wall in 1971, after which Richards tossed illicit substances and encountered homeowner Nicky Hopkins.
• Tesche weaves interviews with Volker Schlöndorff, photographer Gered Mankowitz and Taylor with archival photos, traces the fate of many cars and builds on his Motorlegenden series after volumes on the Beatles, Elvis Presley and James Dean.