Bob Spitz on the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, and the Art of Biography
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Today I'm sitting here chatting with the great Bob Spitz, the biographer. He has a new book out which I enjoyed very, very much. The Rolling Stones, the biography. He has other very well-known books on The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Ronald Reagan, Julia Child, and more. Bob, welcome.
My pleasure, Tyler. Nice to be with you. Did the Rolling Stones have a long apprenticeship period the way the Beatles did? It seems they didn't. So how did they become so great so quickly?
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