Rockman posted this Q interview in his Stones Connections thread -great interview

The Guardian published an excerpt about Thatcher (they omitted the most interesting part how MT did not want to change for anyone) with the title Mick Jagger's admiration for Margaret Thatcher
There is real Mick-hate fest in the comments there. Munichhilton will be happy

come to think of it - Mick deliberately stirred up a hornet's nest and went against the opinion of the majority, it must be quite refreshing for him to see he's still the object of so much scorn after so many years. So maybe Munich souldn't be so happy in the end



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Maybe the reason Mick and the Stones were able to move back to England from France was Thatcher's lowering the exorbitant taxes that made them leave?


P.S. Am I the only one who doubts that he really moves 12 miles at every concert? that has to be a gag.



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Mick, his meeting with Maggie when he was 10 years old and how ballet keeps him fit

The star also revealed details of his tough fitness regime, which involves training up to six days a week in a bid to maintain his 28in waist and prepare him for the 12 miles he is estimated to cover during a typical stage show.
He swears by ballet to help his balance, and also studies yoga and pilates.

Read more: [www.dailymail.co.uk]


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She looks like Eva Braun.

The witch.



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I love her hat. That style is coming back in fashion . .

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Maybe the reason Mick and the Stones were able to move back to England from France was Thatcher's lowering the exorbitant taxes that made them leave?


P.S. Am I the only one who doubts that he really moves 12 miles at every concert? that has to be a gag.

6 miles every hour? Possible, certainly in the early days...probably a bit of a stretch now, but it's definitely at least half that.

I really miss the days when Mick and Keith did ballet together.

Mick did not say a word about ballet, he said "dancing"

Sad to read that one of my music hero's admired the one British politician that I hated so much.

But we always knew it thou.

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Sad to read that one of my music hero's admired the one British politician that I hated so much.

But we always knew it thou.

Hello! He also did not say that he admired her.

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Sad to read that one of my music hero's admired the one British politician that I hated so much.

But we always knew it thou.

Hello! He also did not say that he admired her.

Hi,

Talking to her would be enough.

Funny thing about Thatcher, when she was in office she was wildly popular. Over the years people's memories have changed and she is now considered equivalent to a Nazi. Strange. Her years were very prosperous ones for Britain.



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Maybe the reason Mick and the Stones were able to move back to England from France was Thatcher's lowering the exorbitant taxes that made them leave?


P.S. Am I the only one who doubts that he really moves 12 miles at every concert? that has to be a gag.

6 miles every hour? Possible, certainly in the early days...probably a bit of a stretch now, but it's definitely at least half that.

FYI, a top-notch tennis player in a two-hour match travels less than 3 miles.

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Funny thing about Thatcher, when she was in office she was wildly popular. Over the years people's memories have changed and she is now considered equivalent to a Nazi. Strange. Her years were very prosperous ones for Britain.

This is nonsense.

The majority never voted for her.

Ever.

I was there.

Propsperity?

For the minority, yes.

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Funny thing about Thatcher, when she was in office she was wildly popular. Over the years people's memories have changed and she is now considered equivalent to a Nazi. Strange. Her years were very prosperous ones for Britain.

This is nonsense.

The majority never voted for her.

Ever.

I was there.
Propsperity?

For the minority, yes.

This.

Ding, dong the witch is gone!

Thatcher was anti-communist, and helped to destroy the monster of the USSR - and for that I am grateful to her. But this is my point of view as someone who lived in Russia and was suffering from communism. I understand that it is different for a resident of England
  On the other hand, I think that Putin is much worse than Thatcher but if he will retire and then die I will not dance in the street with joy.

I see the intellectual atmosphere in England is similar to Putin's Russia - people can say only that coincides with the opinion of the majority, or remain silent otherwise they will be ostracized

........................................................................................................... Rocks Off - Jagger/Richards



ROCKMAN

Nor Thatcher neither Reagan "destroyed" The Soviet Union. If you are to give one person the credit for that (which of course is wrong) you might mention Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov. Then you would be closer to the truth.

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Nor Thatcher neither Reagan "destroyed" The Soviet Union. If you are to give one person the credit for that (which of course is wrong) you might mention Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov. Then you would be closer to the truth.

Don't be stupid

Gorbachyov tried to reform The Soviet Union which, of course, was impossible. That was the beginning of the downfall.

....pleeeeeeze can we get back to pirouetting....



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Gorbachyov tried to reform The Soviet Union which, of course, was impossible. That was the beginning of the downfall.

Let's don't start political disputes - it's boring and bv doesn't like it
Mick gave a great interview to Q, there are a lot of interesting things, and dwell on few words about MT - he basically said that he was disgusted by dancing on the corpse of the enemy - is just uninteresting

One thing I don't get with this is: You exercise six days a week and still you have spider legs with, apparently, no muscles on them. How does that happen?

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....pleeeeeeze can we get back to pirouetting....

Do you think this was what they were doing? in my opinion Maggie was already too old for him

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The majority never voted for her.

Ever.

I was there.

Propsperity?

For the minority, yes.

She was actually more popular in America than the UK.

Ah I see... "satisfied" is the new "wildly popular".

Listen.. most of the country hated the witch, she was voted in by the minority who she looked after.

I don't care what your dodgy polls say.

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....pleeeeeeze can we get back to pirouetting....

Nice one, made me laugh.

Here's what I said on CIF Guardian blog re: Mick. I quite like Mick, but he does have alarming Vicar of Bray tendencies, i.e. going with whosoever is in favour:

"There's a fascinating book, based on Lytton Strachey, entitled Eminent Elizabethans, by Piers Brendon. Brendon effectively interlinks Prince Charles, Rupert Murdoch, Lady Thatcher, and Mick Jagger. These four challenged the establishment, yet, secretly, and eventually, they all became part of the establishment. Thatcher challenged the Tory grandees, who didn't, at first, want a woman leader, Murdoch changed the hegemony of the press, Charles, initially rebelled against his family with speeches condemning architecture, but has since become establishment, and Jagger, too, was a rebellious figure, with his blues-based music, but is now part, too, of the establishment.

Jagger has, like the Vicar of Bray, moved with whatever is trendy, creating an utterly ambivalent image: politically, he was approached by Tom Driberg, circa Satanic Majesties / Beggars Banquet era, to stand for Labour. I think Driberg also had a crush on Jagger, so there may have been an ulterior motive in that respect. Jagger also had admiration for Thatcher, referring to her as "Iron Knickers", but he also had admiration for Tony Blair, and his knighthood was conferred on him by New Labour.

Certainly, Mick Jagger's Vicar of Bray tendencies are also reflected in his music, sometimes to the chagrin of Keith Richards, as per his Life autobiography: the disco music of Emotional Rescue single, and Undercover, certainly spring to mind. It has also led to him having to accede a writers' credit to Ben Mink and k.d.lang for Anybody's Seen My Baby".

Sadly Tony blair was also an admirer of thatcher.

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Here's what I said on CIF Guardian blog re: Mick. I quite like Mick, but he does have alarming Vicar of Bray tendencies, i.e. going with whosoever is in favour:

"There's a fascinating book, based on Lytton Strachey, entitled Eminent Elizabethans, by Piers Brendon. Brendon effectively interlinks Prince Charles, Rupert Murdoch, Lady Thatcher, and Mick Jagger. These four challenged the establishment, yet, secretly, and eventually, they all became part of the establishment. Thatcher challenged the Tory grandees, who didn't, at first, want a woman leader, Murdoch changed the hegemony of the press, Charles, initially rebelled against his family with speeches condemning architecture, but has since become establishment, and Jagger, too, was a rebellious figure, with his blues-based music, but is now part, too, of the establishment.

Jagger has, like the Vicar of Bray, moved with whatever is trendy, creating an utterly ambivalent image: politically, he was approached by Tom Driberg, circa Satanic Majesties / Beggars Banquet era, to stand for Labour. I think Driberg also had a crush on Jagger, so there may have been an ulterior motive in that respect. Jagger also had admiration for Thatcher, referring to her as "Iron Knickers", but he also had admiration for Tony Blair, and his knighthood was conferred on him by New Labour.

Certainly, Mick Jagger's Vicar of Bray tendencies are also reflected in his music, sometimes to the chagrin of Keith Richards, as per his Life autobiography: the disco music of Emotional Rescue single, and Undercover, certainly spring to mind. It has also led to him having to accede a writers' credit to Ben Mink and k.d.lang for Anybody's Seen My Baby".

You put things together which have nothing to do with each other AT ALL.
From "meeting" Thatcher to K.D. LAng?
50 years of Mick Jagger in 3 sentences?