1977








photos by Janet Knott/Boston Globe

Where, why?
Pre-some girls?

NEW YORK CITY, NY - SEPTEMBER 20: Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones is pictured in the offices of Rolling Stones Records in the Warner Communications Building in New York City on Sep. 20, 1977. (Photo by Janet Knott/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

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Quite pensive. Post-Toronto bust. Considering his dire situation? Coming off junk?

Probably from interviews promoting Love You Live. That jacket looks familiar; I've seen it in other photos.

Here Keith looks a bit like being Ric Ocasek's brother
Nice pics though!

He wasn't looking too good... and I doubt he was feeling very well. But after 14 years in the music biz he knew exactly how to pose and what to give the photographer.

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Quite pensive. Post-Toronto bust. Considering his dire situation? Coming off junk?

On junk.

The first photo was published with the article below.

The Boston Globe (September 25, 1977)


These Stones Keep on Rolling
By Ernie Santosuosso Globe Staff

NEW YORK It was business as usual one day last week in the offices of Rolling Stones Records, 12 floors up in the Warner Communications Building with one prominent exception.

Inside one of the offices Mick Jagger was flitting about maniacally while the Rolling Stones' second-in-command, Keith Richard, sat back, expressionless. It was the same contrasting manner each had been demonstrating on the concert stage for the past 15 years.

Jagger wore a football jersey over russet slacks and a pair of jogging sneakers. Richard was clad in a plain windbreaker, black pullover, jeans and telephone worker's half boots.

Who was minding the villas, I thought. At 34, Jagger looked fit while Richard, 33, currently undergoing psychiatric and medical treatment in a New York hospital for heroin addiction, reflected his current physical travails.

The pair was in town to plug the Rolling Stones' latest release, ''Love It Live," a two-disc package, three sides of which are devoted to the group's 1976 concert in Paris and the fourth side to the celebrated (and supposed Margaret Trudeau-related) show this year in Toronto.

The album is a collection of old wine in new bottles: "Honky Tonk Women," "Get Off of My Cloud," "Star Star," "Tumbling Dice," 'You Can't Always Get What You Want," "Brown Sugar," "Jumping Jack Flash," "Sympathy for the Devil" and others. The El Mocambo side (Toronto) is totally blues-saturated with songs by Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry and Willie Dixon.

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photos by Janet Knott/Boston Globe

Nice photos! Thanks!

Also as read in the book Life, the production of the double Lp, Love You Live , didn't help their relationship at that time.

Rockandroll,
Mops

34 and 33 years old.... babies! Mere children.

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Paul Kersey
Nice photos! Thanks!

You're welcome. Have another if you like them that much!

Nice photos ...thanks exile ….
can I have one tooooooooooooo ?????????



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Rockman
Nice photos ...thanks exile ….
can I have one tooooooooooooo ?????????

Of course. You get Keith and Mick!

The Glimmers …. Hey yeah fanks exile …..



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Rockman
The Glimmers …. Hey yeah fanks exile …..

welcome . . . Here's the last of this 1977 set.

Awwwwww last..... but but I want more …



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Rockman
Awwwwww last..... but but I want more …

Ok but this is the very last pic from this set.

great pics

friends then, as well as business partners..

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Quite pensive. Post-Toronto bust. Considering his dire situation? Coming off junk?

On junk.

Could be. Had just done the black box detox thing and was under some sort of court ordered supervision at the time. You'd think there would have been some kind of testing done...,..urinalysis....blood test...whatever. easy to beat that stuff though.

Ok but this is the very last pic from this set.


….. aaawwww come on exile you can find a few more just for me ….hhhhaaa



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Sorry, Rockman. I'd post them for you if there were any. That's it from that set.

There's a few similar shots from Ken Regan. Same day, same location. I'll dig deep for them just for you!

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Quite pensive. Post-Toronto bust. Considering his dire situation? Coming off junk?

On junk.

Could be. Had just done the black box detox thing and was under some sort of court ordered supervision at the time. You'd think there would have been some kind of testing done...,..urinalysis....blood test...whatever. easy to beat that stuff though.

He failed to show up for many of those tests. First time he really tried to stop was in the summer of 1978. Relapsed but that was the beginning of the end of his heavy heroin addiction. My theory is that Jagger more or less forced him to quit before the 1981 tour. He used in 1980 but that mustve been the last time except for some relapse much later on.

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great pics

friends then, as well as business partners..

I'd see things a bit differently : Mick as the patient loving mother, worrying that his "turbulent" teen might make a mistake you can't come back from. Keef the reckless adolescent constantly getting in trouble.
And in true teen fashion once he really got out of trouble his act (1980) instead of thanking Mom Mick for saving his @ss he spent the following years spitting at her face.

These two were friends... from 1962 till sometime in the 70's when Keef did become just a burden and a trouble-magnet. By then Mick probably started to think "mmmm i'd better prepare myself mentally to get that phone call from our laywers or the police. Keef's walking with the dead".

Look at the pic posted below the "Here's the last of this 1977 set" comment : I don't see two friends : I see a numbed guy on the right and a fatherly/motherly/brotherly figure on the left thinking "will he ever stop walking the tightrope?"

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Quite pensive. Post-Toronto bust. Considering his dire situation? Coming off junk?

On junk.

Could be. Had just done the black box detox thing and was under some sort of court ordered supervision at the time. You'd think there would have been some kind of testing done...,..urinalysis....blood test...whatever. easy to beat that stuff though.

He failed to show up for many of those tests. First time he really tried to stop was in the summer of 1978. Relapsed but that was the beginning of the end of his heavy heroin addiction. My theory is that Jagger more or less forced him to quit before the 1981 tour. He used in 1980 but that mustve been the last time except for some relapse much later on.

He was on and off in those days.
On that particularly day I'm quite shure he hadn't used H. You can see that . .

I'll dig deep for them just for you!

………….. mmmmmmmmmmmm thanks exile very kind of you ….



ROCKMAN

photo by Ken Regan

Hey Hey YEAH .... fanks exile ….



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