So, how is that drummer...who was the first drummer? Tony Chapman or Mick Avory?

^ Chapman.

Also, the pics often credited as being from their debut are froma gig at the Marquee, but possibly not from the 12th.

* His Majesty, Prince Jones smiled as he moved among the crowd *

So Christopher Sandford tries to rewrite history by repeating that same bloody mistake again, that Mick Avory sat on the drums at the Stones' very first gig.
The same Christopher Sandford who had already researched three biographies on the Stones doesn't know better, although there's many sources and interviews with Mick Avory that tell otherwise. This kind of journalism makes me sick! (Leaving aside that those photos are not from the July 12-gig either).

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So Christopher Sandford tries to rewrite history by repeating that same bloody mistake again, that Mick Avory sat on the drums at the Stones' very first gig.
The same Christopher Sandford who had already researched three biographies on the Stones doesn't know better, although there's many sources and interviews with Mick Avory that tell otherwise. This kind of journalism makes me sick! (Leaving aside that those photos are not from the July 12-gig either).

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I've only read his Keith book, and I find it rather weakly done. Lots of inaccuracies, and the writer uses a bit too much his free magination in making the story (like in the article, too - re Keith's role). He even claims that Keith started writing music before the Stones. Anyway, it would funny to read his Jagger book - his Keith book is probably the strongest "Keith is The Stones, anti-Jagger" book I've written - beats even LIFE in that sense. Can he also see the things so subjectively from Jagger's side as well?

- Doxa