New Book, ‘The Rolling Stones on Tour,’ Celebrates ‘the Greatest Live Band of All Time’

A new book, fully authorized and produced in official partnership with the Rolling Stones, celebrates their concert career across six continents and more than 2000 shows. The Rolling Stones on Tour: The Official Celebration of the Greatest Live Band of All Time, was published on Oct. 6, 2026. The 304-page title, via Welbeck, is available here. A special edition, available here, includes a slipcase and six premium tour poster prints.

From the publisher’s announcement: Over the course of more than 60 years, the Rolling Stones have redefined the rock and roll concert time and time again. From the humble clubs and music halls of the 1963 British Tour to the vast stadiums of 2024’s “Hackney Diamonds” Tour, more people have seen the Stones perform than any band – ever.

 The Rolling Stones: On Tour is the definitive celebration of their incomparable career on the road, following the Stones across the globe, detailing their evolution from aspiring blues musicians to the biggest live act the world has ever seen. A visual feast for Stones fans, On Tour is illustrated with hundreds of rarely seen photographs, artworks and ephemera from the Rolling Stones archives: including tour posters, ticket stubs, backstage passes, concert fliers and much more.

A sample spread from the book.

Featuring an exclusive foreword from the Rolling Stones and text from author Paul Sexton that weaves in first-hand accounts, contemporary reviews and original interviews with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts, this is the ultimate book for Stones fans.

A sample spread from the book.

Sexton is an author, journalist and broadcaster who has covered the Stones, and interviewed all of the band extensively, for some 30 years. He started writing about music for the weekly pop paper Record Mirror while still a teenager in 1977, and his work has appeared in all of the quality U.K. press, most notably The Sunday Times and The Times, as well as in Billboard and countless documentaries and shows for BBC Radio 2. His authorized biography of Charlie Watts, Charlie’s Good Tonight, was published in 2022.

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