Hello, everyone, (Please excuse duplicate posting.) I'd like to announce my new book about fans based on over 100 interviews with fans around the world and participant/observation in their online groups: You Get What You Need: Stories of Fans of The Rolling Stones (Miniver Press, 2014.) Written for general audiences, it is available in paperback and Kindle versions at Amazon in several countries, including the U.S: http://www.amazon.com/You-Get-What-Need-Stories/dp/1939282330/. The book situates the band and other musicians within the counterculture of the 1960s before exploring how fans first heard the music, highlights of shows they attended, and contact with individual band members. It contains chapters on features of the online participation of fans including how they chose their usernames and the connections between their online communities and their experiences around live concerts from buying tickets to communicating after the shows. Students in courses about digital phenomena and people interested in fandoms of all sorts could benefit from reading the book, as could researchers seeking case studies of interactions in online communities and their affects on members. As a companion piece to the book and in line with his other interviews with researchers, Dr. Mark Duffett, a professor in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Chester, UK, and a noted researcher and writer on fan phenomena (see for example, Understanding Fandom, 2013) interviewed me in two parts about topics in the book itself and broader issues related to the band. We discussed self-presentation of the band members, and aspects of gender, race, politics and the culture of the era in which they began. We also covered differences and similarities among Stones fans and between them and other music fans. The text of the interviews starts here: http://pop-music-research.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/you-get-what-you-need-interview-with-dr_17.html. Thanks for your attention. cheers, Andrea J. Baker (andee) Ohio University