Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous
Diehard Rolling Stones fans will find Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones (which relives the summer of 1971 at Villa Nellcote in the south of France where the band recorded Exile on Main Street) "inspires a certain demented nostalgia" as one reviewer put it. The antics of Mick, Keith et al are often hilarious, amazing and sometimes frightening--the hold heroin had on the group and visitors is scary. Out of this mayhem came one of their best albums and a baby girl named Dandelion. You'll have to read the book to find out the significance of the baby's name.
The Stones may rent a villa. It takes a country's entire population to pay for the homes featured in Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots. Saddam, Idi Amin and a host of other bad guys are represented here. The decorating styles can best be described as the gaudy, the bad and the ugly.