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. The Rolling
Stones have long been considered one of the greatest rock-and-roll bands of all time. 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. 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 . . . until now. 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. 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. They opened the doors to subterranean art and
alternative lifestyles turned them on to Russian literature occult practices and LSD. They
connected them to cutting edge directors and writers won them roles in art house films that
renewed their appeal. They often acted as unpaid stylists providing provocative looks from
their personal wardrobes. They remixed tracks for chart-topping albums and sometimes even
wrote the actual songs. 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. 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. 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.
