LET IT LOOSE

Before they were the voice of Corporate Rock, the Rolling Stones were the voice of re bellion, and no rock recording is more storied than their Exile on Main St. album, laid down on the French Riviera in the summer of `71. Fleeing the British taxman, the Stones holed up in Villa Nellcote with a revolving cast of revelers that included John and Yoko, a gang of local drug dealers, and music journalist Robert Greenfield. Greenfield notebook in hand, captures the whole sex-drugs-and-rock `n'-roll circus, but what is most compelling is how the torturous tension between the newly-smitten-with-high-society Mick and the whacked-on-smack bad boy Keith fueled the demons of cre ativity. One hit of Greenfield's Exile on Main St. (Do Capo) and you'H be hooked.

E.S.