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The team have sent out "feelers". These take various forms.They've put teaser ads in the music press inviting responses from anyone who has had direct experience of the Stones - in the hope of trawling up some early first-hand recollections from the '60s.

They've also done a series of interviews with the Stones inner circle. Among these is Gered Mankowitz, son of one of British cinema's "Golden Age" movers and shakers Wolf Mankowitz, Gered a photographer intimately related to the Stones from the mid-Sixties thru the early Seventies.

The Wyman corporation has (quite rightly) rejected a number of DK cover designs based on photo-montages of "Stones" through the years - the fact is you can't escape Jagger and Richards, but how do you accomodate Bill and Charlie, let alone Brian, Stu, Mick Taylor, Woodie and a host of essential collaborators (Bobby Keys, Ry Cooder, Billy Preston, Leon Russell)?