Moonlight Miles

Music journalist and Stones devotee Chris Epting takes you on a journey across the United States and Canada to the places that Jagger, Richards, Watts, Wyman, Jones, Taylor and Wood touched, from arenas, theaters and clubs to hotels, studios and off-the-beaten path sites, to celebrate a half century of the Rolling Stones. Loaded with surprising trivia, facts and lore, Moonlight Miles: A Guide to Rolling Stones Landmarks Across America 1964-1981 retraces the steps of the Stones during their most productive and wildest years, as they made their tumultuous mark across North America, creating both musical magic and mayhem like no other band before or since.

More than 200 sites have been documented, including:

- A lake in Los Angeles where the Stones posed for an album cover; it is the same lake Opie and Andy stroll past in the opening credits of the Andy Griffith Show

- The Long Island motel that inspired one of the Stones' most famous ballads.

- The Florida hotel room where Keith Richards awoke with Satisfaction in his head now a Scientology headquarters.

- The Alabama studio where Brown Sugar and Wild Horses were born.

- The street corner where the band infamously posed in drag in 1966.

- The building seen both in a famous Rolling Stones video and a famous Led Zeppelin album cover.

- The 10th story hotel room where Keith Richards tossed a TV set out of the window.