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Let The Good Times Roll

By: Kenney Jones
Narrated by: David John,Kenney Jones
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Summary

'Which is the best band I've been in? The Small Faces were the most creative, The Faces were the most fun, The Who were the most exciting. These were electrifying days in music. We were all untried, untested. What was stopping us? Nothing.'

As drummer with The Small Faces, Faces and later The Who, Kenney Jones' unique sense of rhythm was the heartbeat that powered three of the most influential rock bands of all time.

Beginning in London's postwar East End, Kenney's story takes us through the birth of the Mod revolution, the mind-bending days of the late 1960s and the raucous excesses of the '70s and '80s. In a career spanning six decades, Kenney was at the epicentre of many of the most exciting moments in music history and has experienced everything the industry has to offer. He jointly created some of the world's most loved records, hung out with the Stones, the Beatles, David Bowie, Keith Moon and Rod Stewart, and suffered the loss of close friends to rock 'n' roll excess and success.

The legacy created by Kenney and his bandmates has influenced acts as diverse as Led Zeppelin, the Sex Pistols and Oasis. Now, for the very first time, Kenney tells the full story of how a young Cockney Herbert played his part in the biggest social transformation in living memory - the people, the parties, the friendships, the fallouts, the laughter, the sadness, the sex, drugs, and a lot of rock 'n' roll, while also opening up about his own deeply personal battles and passions, too. This is a vivid and breathtaking immersion into the most exciting era of music history and beyond.

©2018 Kenney Jones (P)2018 Bonnier Publishing

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"Been There, Done That...."

It’s probably fair to say that most people outside of the music industry won’t know who Kenney Jones is. And it is equally fair to say that most of these would, at some time, have found themselves dancing to a record bearing his trademark, solid drumming.

Kenney Jones has had a remarkable musical career. He left school in the East End of London aged just 15 to take up an apprenticeship, only to find himself only two years later a bona fide popstar as drummer in the successful group, The Small Faces. The band remained successful throughout the 60s, and when lead vocalist Steve Marriot left the band in 1969, Jones and the other remaining members joined forces with a young blues singer called Rod Stewart, and the rest is history.

Even during his time with The Small Faces, Jones was finding his no-nonsense style and solid, danceable grooves in demand, and despite him not being able to read music, he became a sought-after session player, playing for Joan Armatrading, The Who, Andy Fairweather-Low and many others.

In the late 70s Rod Stewart left the Faces to concentrate on a solo career. Initially he asked Kenney to continue in the drum seat, but after much soul-searching Kenney realised that this would be a path to obscurity, as he slowly became just a part of a backing group with no say in what the band were doing. He wasn’t out of work for long; following the untimely death of The Who’s Keith Moon, the band asked Kenney to take over the role of band drummer. He jumped at the chance, but it soon became evident that this request had not been unanimously agreed, with singer Roger Daltrey being especially frosty. After a few years in the band, the end of the road came when Daltrey insisted Kenney be fired. A difficult time followed, during which contractual obligations forced the band to put on concerts and attend publicity junkets while Kenney ‘worked his notice’. This situation was made more awkward by the band being asked in 1985 to play Live Aid at Wembley Stadium, and Kenney being asked if he could drum for them, “just one more time”. Daltrey was NOT happy at Kenney’s involvement, and watching the video today on YouTube, his anger is plain to see.

Unlike many of his contemporaries Kenney has always been careful with money, and this has enabled him to make lucrative investments outside of the world of pop music, most notably his polo club at Hurtwood Park in Surrey, UK.

He also speaks openly and frankly about his cancer scares and how he managed to survive the treatments and months of recovery that followed.

Narration by David John is first-rate and keeps the listener engaged throughout.

Highly recommended

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Wow, what a fantastic life

Thank you Kenny Jones for getting your life story ‘out there’. This is a fun and tender account starting with Kenny’s beginning with his East End family through his years with The Small Faces and The Who and beyond. I found the narrator to be excellent.

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A ripping listen

A well written and thoroughly good listen. Well narrated and well crafted. It took me on a journey in my imagination from the East end to the stratospheric heights of the rock world.

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Interesting to a point

If you are fan of 60/70s rock and faces/small faces you’ll find this reasonably interesting. The best bits for me was to hear more about the small faces and why they broke up and how the faces formed. I also found Kenneys childhood interesting. On the other hand the lengthy details about the “hijinks” he got up to particularly with the small faces and faces became very tedious and irritating after a while. Whilst I understand it was entertaining for Kenney to write his memoirs, the book would have benefited from much tougher editing with more focus on the music and les focus on the rock n roll lifestyle. At times Kenney comes across as a bit of a tit. The bits about his wife seemed unnecessary and I wonder what her side of the story was. If I had paid for this book I would have been slightly disappointed

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Kenney Jones

Loved it
Never had an audio book before.
Want to listen to more books. Thanks.

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insight into a life, not just band(s)

As a fan of the small and full size faces, I was looking forward to this.

Not only insight into the times that these bands operated and the way the industry ripped off bands, it shows the personnal side.

Some reviews state they wanted more of the rock and roll lifestyle. If you want that, then Mac's autobiography tells you what was happening whilst he was on what drug!

I am not a big Who fan and so was not as interested about that period but still insightful.

I am a fan of Mollie Marriot so was interested to hear how close Kenny is to his old mate's daughter.

Would of liked more on The Law, but I guess that was a very short period and not that significant to Kenny.

Well narrated and again, with reference to another review, it would not have worked with Kenny's voice all the way through as his voice is now older

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Brilliant

Brilliant book. Really enjoyed it. Brought back a lot of very good memories. Highly recommend

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Great Drummer

Being a drummer myself it was interesting to hear his approach to drumming. As with many artists in the generation it's a shame they got ripped off by the man. Bit slow at some points. Wish Kenny had narrated.

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an education

I really enjoyed this audio book. I learned interesting facts about the bands I listened too. The book was very well read and captivating

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Book of Dreams

Enjoyed the insight in to Kenney's life and career in music. Just felt the book rolled on for too long and went in to too much technical detail, especially the section about flying helicopters.

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