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Snarp Farkle July 8 - 22, 2009 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 3 By Helen Marketti to provide those who were interested an At the time Bill lived in Brooklyn the opportunity to know what the Stones were up Rolling Stones lived in New York City T he front cover of the book shows the to. Naming the newsletter Beggars Banquet neighborhoods so he knew that making a beginning of a journey that would last for after the Stones 1968 album seemed an connection with them would be the perfect seventeen years. Walking behind Keith appropriate title for those who wanted to be way to have insider’s knowledge for Richards is Bill German at the age of “in the know” and yet still be able to afford Beggars Banquet . He was a fan but also a eighteen. Bill is handing an issue of Beggars to know. journalist. Banquet to Ron Wood (who is off camera). It Using his type writer to tap out the bits Bill explains why he has always liked was June of 1980 and life as it was known and pieces of information he collected while the Rolling Stones, “They seemed so would never be the same again. also laboring over photos Bill literally cut rebellious. I loved their sarcasm and sense Under Their Thumb (Villard Books, and pasted (scotch taped) to create his of humor. They spent time in the clubs to 2009) is Bill German’s autobiographical newsletters. see area bands. They were accessible.” get. I think they needed real account of his time spent in the inner circle With the help of a friend who had access Through a series of contacts, connections, friends and they felt they could trust me.” of the Rolling Stones. To have been privy to to the copy machine at his high school Bill persistence and showing up at the right place Building rapport with Keith Richards and their world for seventeen years and all the cranked out copies, collated and stapled by at the right time often with copies of his Ronnie Wood was fairly easy and Bill while maintaining trust, friendships and hand and sold them for 25 cents a copy. He Beggars Banquet in tow; Bill managed to became close friends with the two. being given first hand information for his presented his copies to fellow classmates make sure the Stones held the newsletters in Charlie Watts was an introvert and it may newsletter (Beggars Banquet ) is a who were not interested. He left them on their hands personally. be a surprise to some that Bill never had an remarkable experience. counter tops with the permission of record Eventually Beggars Banquet gained actual conversation with him. “It’s now a Bill created the newsletter for Rolling store owners in his neighborhood. It was a momentum becoming the official Rolling running joke,” Bill laughs. “I was too bashful Stones fans in 1978 at the age of sixteen. His rough start as his first issue only made one Stones newsletter with fans paying for to approach Charlie and he usually stayed to humble beginnings and creative thought was sale. subscriptions. One of the fans was Cameron himself so we Crowe, who would never initiated later conversation direct with each Almost other. In Famous . seventeen Bill years I’m handled still not sure the he even mailings knew who I himself was.” and Bill and always Stones kept things front man interesting Mick for loyal Jagger readers by were not holding exactly best chums drawings either. “Mick kept his distance, kept his guard and contests for concert tickets, autographed up,” Bill said. “Mick is the most famous of items and so forth. He devoted seventeen the Stones and because of that there are more years to Beggars Banquet and to the Rolling demands made on his time. He was more Stones. involved with the business side of the Stones “I had no idea that things would last as than the other guys. He would get up early, long as they did,” Bill said.