I just read that interview that was on another thread, but the last two quotes stood out for me so much that I just HAD to quote them here:

Watts: I think we should carry on. It seems that whenever we stop I get ill. The last time we had a break I got throat cancer. I do all my exercises, I don't smoke, and I don't drink, yet I'm the one in the band that got it. I was lying there thinking, “This is it.” I went into hospital and eight months later Mick said, “We're going to do a record. But we'll only start when you are ready.” They were buggering about, writing songs, and when I was ready I went down and that was it, we made A Bigger Bang. Then we did a two-year tour.

Richards: We love what we do, simple as that. We were the whipping hounds, you know, but that's calmed down. Now we're the wrinkled rockers, right? But I still have the energy. I put that down to not eating a lot. And drinking a lot. Not eating a lot, and good weed. Honestly I'd do this job even if I were in a wheelchair.

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funny one from good old Bill

Now that I think of it, with the two heaviest smokers/drinkers you can imagine in the band, Charlie being the one getting a cancer is pretty ironic.

the interview from the Times (the London one, not the New York one) is here: [www.iorr.org]
thanks to Stargroves

yeah, you're goddam right on that one. thanks


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well charlie did his share of smoking from the 60s -early 80s so that could have done it, among other things