Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones
God, what a delicious, gossipy, glamorous, but also emotional and thoughtful read ... The women are given every bit as much play as Keith Richards and Mick Jagger.
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Parachute Women is the first to narrativize the collective experiences of the consorts and wives who shaped the musicians. Winder spotlights how the vast influence of these women on the Stones has largely been hidden in the shadow of the band’s monolithic mythos ... A step toward according these women their rightful place in music culture ... Chapter after chapter, Winder shows how these four women persevered, in the face of indignity and trauma ... It’s a grim indictment of the band and their enabling coterie. Winder is deeply empathetic to these women, and her disgust for the band and their yes men is plain, but she is hardly a critical biographer; she leaves the reader to draw their own judgments ... A welcome reprieve from the typical Stones hagiography, which casts Mick and Keef as self-made gods ... A valiant start.
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Fascinating, multifaceted ... A refreshing portrait of four women who dared to be themselves in the hypermasculine world of rock.
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