Discover the true story of the four Women who worked tirelessly Behind the scenes to help shape and curate the image of The Rolling Stones--perfect for fans of Girls Like Us .
Written in the tradition of Sheila Weller\'s Girls Like Us , it\'s a story of lust and rivalries, friendships and betrayals, hope and degradation, and the birth of rock and roll..
Lush in detail and insight, and long overdue, Parachute Women is a group portrait of the four audacious Women who transformed the Stones into international stars, but who were themselves marginalized by the male-dominated rock world of the late \'60s and early \'70s.
More hip to the times than the rockers themselves, they consciously (and unconsciously) kept the band current--and confident--with that mythic lasting power they still have today.
They remixed tracks for chart-topping albums, and sometimes even wrote the actual songs.
They often acted as unpaid stylists, providing provocative looks from their personal wardrobes.
They connected them to cutting edge directors and writers, won them roles in art house films that renewed their appeal.
They opened the doors to subterranean art and alternative lifestyles, turned them on to Russian literature, occult practices, and LSD.
Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, and Anita Pallenberg put the glimmer in the Glimmer Twins and taught a group of straight-laced boys to be bad.
In Parachute Women, Elizabeth Winder introduces us to the four Women who inspired, styled, wrote for, remixed, and ultimately helped create the legend of the Rolling Stones. until now. . .
Yet, as the saying goes, Behind every great man is a greater woman, and Behind these larger-than-life rockstars were four incredible Women whose stories have yet to be fully unpacked .
At the forefront of the British Invasion and heading up the counterculture movement of the 1960s, the Stones\' innovative music and iconic performances defined a generation, and fifty years later, they\'re still performing to sold-out stadiums around the globe.
The Rolling Stones have long been considered one of the greatest rock-and-roll bands of all time.
Discover the true story of the four Women who worked tirelessly Behind the scenes to help shape and curate the image of The Rolling Stones--perfect for fans of Girls Like Us
