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DandelionPowderman
[Could be, of course, but Keith's statement was from 1985.
Lil Wergilis or Lilly Wenglass, btw, are they the same swedish woman? Wenglass has added Green to her last name now..
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Rocky Dijon
No apology needed. You and I don't know them personally and even if we did, we weren't there to see it happen. I'm just doing my jigsaw puzzle before it rains any more.
Meantime, Keith already gave us a tune on this very topic:
Oh, you know you've got it in for me
I knew it right from the start
I'm still learning my lines baby
Since you've rewritten my part
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DandelionPowderman
[Could be, of course, but Keith's statement was from 1985.
Lil Wergilis or Lilly Wenglass, btw, are they the same swedish woman? Wenglass has added Green to her last name now..
It is the same woman. I read an explanation for the variant name fairly recently (I think it was linked here), but I can't recall it now. She was a nanny Anita hired and then became best friends with Jo for a bit.
As for Keith's statement about "All About You" being about Mick stemming from 1985, that bears further comment.
Something happened between the early songwriting sessions when Mick and Keith are playing acoustic guitars and all appears to be well. During the proper recording sessions with Steve Lillywhite, the band (including Mick) were dining together in Paris (haddock allegedly being a frequent choice giving rise to jokes about "Haddock with You"). By summer, it became Keith and, to an extent, Ronnie vs. Mick. Mick was absent (allegedly) or avoiding Keith and showing up in the studio on his own. Maybe it was fallout over Live Aid, but certainly by the time mixing and overdubbing was underway, the reports are relations were more strained than they had been during EMOTIONAL RESCUE.
It is not speculation only to suggest Keith was looking at the Biff Hilter Trio (Steve Jordan, Charley Drayton, Ivan Neville) as a backing band for his next project: a solo album of his own by September 1985. From that perspective, and with Jane's blessing (if not guidance), the narrative changes and becomes Mick as the target, Mick as the figure to blame, Mick as Peter Pan standing in the way of the band growing up or touring.
DIRTY WORK was initially promoted by Keith and certainly Steve Lillywhite as Keith's album, yet now it's thought of as the low-water mark in their career. TALK IS CHEAP carried the narrative further two years later. Keith tells stories of Mick saying he had no songs to offer when they met up in Paris. Since it can't be both ways, Mick messes the Stones up with his misdirection and Mick doesn't contribute creatively which scuppers the results, one has to conclude some of the finger-pointing and bitching serves a greater purpose, namely self-promotion and establishing a new identity (just as the laughing pirate is the next iteration).
For me, it just doesn't add up to accept Keith's word that a song Mick approved for release on a band effort they produced together in 1980 was a poison pen letter to him. If my speculation the "her" is Lil and the "you" is Anita is correct, Patti's feelings (since Keith was still with Lil in their early days together) are another likely reason to keep his private life private and offer up Mick. Seen from that perspective, Keith (and Jane) were simply updating WOULD YOU LET YOUR DAUGHTER MARRY A ROLLING STONE? to WOULD YOU BUY A SOLO ALBUM FROM MICK JAGGER? The answer you're being prompted to give is "No, he needs Keith Richards, the authentic Stone." If I'm correct, it's a brilliant move to rehabilitate the image of a guy who had become fodder for cheap jokes as the poster boy for drug addiction.
Whether such a move is the reason they haven't been in one another's dressing room in decades, don't socialize, aren't friendly if there isn't a camera on them, don't collaborate closely unless forced, etc. is a point Keith likely never asks himself if we accept his public persona as the genuine article.
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35love
By the end of the year, 1982, the band had signed a new four-album recording deal with a new label, CBS Records, for a reported $50 million, then the biggest record deal in history.[196]
*which included Jagger solo albums, which apparently Keith Richards was unaware.
Jagger released his first solo albums, She's the Boss and Primitive Cool, in 1985 and 1987 respectively, through a newly conceived partnership between Rolling Stones Records and CBS Records (now Sony Music).
*Thus the trademark Rolling Stones logo was affixed to each record and the label "Rolling Stones Records" was also printed on each new release, which angered Keith Richards
*lastly, I say ‘All About You’ is about ANITA. That man’s torment and pain are about their relationship ending/ the darkness it went thru/ the drug addiction/ the lowlifes it brings you down to and become.
JMO.