[2] He has also written for The Independent[3] and Classic Rock magazine,[4] and contributed articles on music, fashion, design or travel for The Guardian, Elle and Blueprint, among other publications.
[2] Trynka has written or co-written the books Electric Guitar (1993), Portrait of the Blues (1996) and Denim (2001).
A review in The Guardian describes the book as "piecing together the chaotic life story of this often unhinged performer in thorough and scrupulously non-judgmental detail".
[6] Writing in The New York Times, Dwight Garner described it as "a better-than-average rock biography, but just barely".
[8] In his review for The New York Times, Larry Rohter said the book "challenges the standard version of events" by recognising Jones' importance on a par with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and added: "Though Mr. Trynka sometimes overstates Jones’s long-term cultural impact, his is revisionist history of the best kind – scrupulously researched and cogently argued – and should be unfailingly interesting to any Stones fan.