IN 1989 I began working on one of my own favourite albums, Journeyman. During the recording sessions I was introduced to a pretty young Italian model named Carla. Initially I wasn’t overly interested, but she was clearly a music fan and seemed quite taken with me. I was very flattered because she was only 21 and very sexy. We began dating, and in a very short time I became obsessed with her.

I was living in New York, and it served as a backdrop for our affair, very fast and very romantic. While it was still going strong, the Stones came through town on their Steel Wheels tour. Carla asked me if I would take her to see them. We went to the show and afterwards I took her backstage to meet the guys.

I remember saying to Jagger, “Please Mick, not this one. I think I’m in love.” In the past he had made several unsuccessful passes at Pattie, and I knew Carla would appeal to his eye. For all my pleadings, it was only a matter of days before they started a clandestine affair.

After Carla had stood me up a couple of times, I got a call from the girl who had introduced us, telling me Carla was seeing Mick and it was serious. The obsession gripped me for the rest of that year, and took some grisly turns when I found myself guesting with the Stones on a couple of shows, knowing she was lurking in the background.

The deception involved in her affair with Jagger drove a deep wedge between me and him, and for a while I found it hard to think of him without malice. Later on, of course, I quietly felt both gratitude and compassion towards him, first for delivering me from certain doom, and second for apparently suffering such prolonged agony in her service.

Prompted by my obsession with Carla and Mick, I began to do some proper recovery work. For a start, it was deemed necessary by my sponsor [in the 12-step programme] that a “fourth step” inventory be taken on the subject of my resentment toward them both. The fourth step is generally practised as an honest review of the past to identify the alcoholic’s own contribution to his drinking problems.

Wow, this people have so many stories to tell. I always have the feeling that we'll never know half of all of them.

Yeah, great read. Maybe I'm in a sad mood tonight but that story and it seems most of these stories are very sad. I guess that's the price they are paying...

Ahhhh nice to read that good old fashion mateship still exists...



ROCKMAN

mick wants it and he gets it, no matter who it is, lol

hm ... that sure adds some layers to that AC 89 Little Red Rooster guitar/harp dialogue, doesn't it.

the better they are, the less we know about what it costs them to be up there.

If I was a rock star I think I'd have to lock up my girlfriend or something...


Belgrade-Bucharest-Budapest-Brno

Moral of the story -- men are very foolish.

Sorta true stonesrule....I was considering a sex-change
but then I realised that I haven't worn out the one I've got......!!!!!



ROCKMAN

melillo Wrote:
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> mick wants it and he gets it, no matter who it is,
> lol

Yep , until one day he doesn't, and that day will come and he'll feel like shit for being such a shit (and her too, it's called KARMA)

Mick is the Man!!! He can get anyone!! wow!

I wouldn't date anyone whose name started with "CLAP".

"No Anchovies, Please"

Carla is Carla Bruni, right?

Well, she is cute, isn't she?

On the other hand, GROW UP ERIC! He was way over 40 at the time, and she was 21. Can't be serious when he said "think I'm in love"

Well, all in all, he deserved it!

C

... there are at least two other sides to this tale, right?

isn't it interesting how some minds tend to judge while other minds tend to simply observe



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with sssoul Wrote:
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> ... there are at least two other sides to this
> tale, right?
>
> ins't it interesting how some minds tend to judge
> while other minds tend to simply observe


excusatio non petita ... but in the first place, as a man, I don't think it is not very classy to disclose what belongs to the secret of the bedroom (and even worse to use only the ... second, as it is, the story reads as if Mick was the jerk, while it was quite the opposite.

C

aut insanit homo, aut versus facit :E
ahem - i mean: ... huh?

Eric Clapton & Carla Bruni.......



ROCKMAN

Having read those extracts in the Sunday Times, Clapton quite sadly, comes across as someone with the brain of a rocking horse.

Brilliant guitarist, mind.

Can't Mick get his own girlfriends? why he needs to steal one of his buddie's chick? Oh well, l guess that what rockstars do.

"No dope smoking no beer sold after 12 o'clock"

Buddy?

Buddies don't pull that.

Hmm, Clapton pulled it on George Harrison and Mick did it to Clapton...

Even if me dear dad turned up with Carla ...I'd be tryin' to...



ROCKMAN

liddas Wrote:
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> Carla is Carla Bruni, right?
>
> Well, she is cute, isn't she?
>
> On the other hand, GROW UP ERIC! He was way over
> 40 at the time, and she was 21.
>
> Well, all in all, he deserved it!
>
And Mick was what 46 in 1989? He was dating a woman 4 years older than his daughter Jade at the time.

Recently Mick had dated women younger than his daughter.

Who's that woman on your arm
All dressed up to do you harm?
And I'm hip to what she'll do
Give it just about a month or two

He can dish it out but he can't take it.

Mick's got a habit of stealing his friends' women. Anita from Keith, Jerry Hall from Bryan Ferry, Carla Bruni from Clapton .... Nice guy!

Shame on all these unfaithful women...

Svartmer Wrote:
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> Shame on all these unfaithful women...


Yeah, they just tripped and landed on Mick's dick.



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Svartmer Wrote:
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> Shame on all these unfaithful women...


Consider this: Jerry Hall was bored out of her skull with Bryan Ferry. She was 19 and he was in his mid-30s when they met. He wanted her to give up her career, stay at home, knit and have his kids. She wanted to party. Then she meets Mick Jagger, who, at the time, is party central and has a rep for being savage in the sack ...

Carla Bruni was 21 when she met Clapton, who's probably as boring as most of his records and as introverted as he sounds in his book. Jagger, meanwhile, is STILL party central, and STILL has a rep for being savage in the sack ....

Jagger's reputedly a charming guy with the ladies. Ferry's a brooding manic depressive (by his own admission), and, I suppose, Clapton's very much the same (I know people who've met him and they say he's one of those people who can't keep a conversation in the air). Jagger's their polar opposite ...

This doesn't make it ok to basically steal a friend's girlfriend, but it happens all the time. Joe Strummer was notorious for it.

Clapton's a serious wimp though. Jagger starts shagging his girlfriend and he STILL gets up on stage and jams with The Stones after THAT. He must have loved that band more than himself.



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