When Truman Capote went on tour with The Rolling Stones, it turned into one of the strangest and most uncomfortable episodes in rock-and-roll journalism. It was 1972. The year of swagger and excess. Of stadium lights and packed arenas. And into that haze… stepped Truman Capote, armed with his little notebook, and Lee Radziwill to boot. He had signed on to chronicle the Stones’ 1972 American tour for Rolling Stone magazine. The idea was to capture the decadence and cultural power of the band at their peak. Capote, then in his late 40s, known for ‘In Cold Blood’ and high-society Manhattan circles, was dropped into the chaotic, drug-heavy, sexually charged world of early ’70s rock and roll. So there stood Capote. Observing. Judging. Absorbing. Or at least trying to. Yes, he was fascinated, but he was also appalled. He found the band crude and uninteresting, later describing them in unflattering terms, mocking their intelligence and manners. Capote reportedly described them in ways th...