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Good interview

What is the essence of Mick saying about 1976 with "We weren't enjoying it that much... We dragged ourselves together to go out in '78 for a very short American tour which wasn't that much fun either" when you see the pics and videos and they certainly look like they're having a fantastic time?

Whatever he was getting at in 1982 seems a bit of sliding on the surface of things (being predictable) when one month after the 1978 tour they started working on a new album!!!!???? Last 1982 show in late July to mid-November started work for UNDERCOVER!!!

But they had "plans to tour for at least another two years" at this time of the interview in 1982 but then "but what the rest of the band wants to do I don't know what's going to happen".

They were on the studio-road-studio-road-studio-studio-road-studio (recording as well as the live album and movie) treadmill, as Keith and other musicians love to say... perhaps that is the essence of what Mick was getting at, without saying it, that it has to end at some point, hence his "I don't know in ten years" etc.

It's almost as if he's hinting the ride that started in 1975 was ending in 1982 (which from a recently posted interview he hinted at the Stones doing something completely different after the tour) which didn't actually stop until REWIND came out in 1984 and that was it: full stop.

He recorded SHE'S THE BOSS.

They weren't concerned with their legacy, which came around quickly, and powerfully, in 1989.

They all needed a break, they just didn't know how to admit it.

Look at that time frame:

1975 Record new album, release MADE IN THE SHADE, tour

1976 Mix new album, BLACK AND BLUE released, tour

1977 Toronto, Keith busted, mix LOVE YOU LIVE, record new album

1978 Finish new album SOME GIRLS, tour, record, Keith trial

1979 TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE, continue to record new album; New Barbarians; more work to record new album, more Keith legal, NB at Knebworth, recording and mixing EMOTIONAL RESCUE

1980 ER work continues, ER LP released, work on TATTOO YOU starts

1981 SUCKING IN THE SEVENTIES, work on TY continues, videos for TY singles, then rehearsals for 1981 tour, TY released, tour

1982 work on LSTNT movie, work on live album, Stones rehearse for 1982 tour, STILL LIFE released, Stones tour Europe, more work on LSTNT, Stones record UNDERCOVER

1983 Recording U continues, LSTNT comes out, more recording, then mix U, sign with CBS Records, Stones film videos in Paris and Mexico, U is released, Mick starts work on SHE'S THE BOSS

1984 More video work in Mexico, Mick works on STB, records with Michael Jackson, REWIND is released, ending their Atlantic affiliation, Mick works on STB, Stones meeting, VIDEO REWIND, Mick in Rio filming videos, RUNNING OUT OF LUCK


As intense as Mick's work is on U at some point after they had accomplished enough his mind was set on a solo album.

That's when it, the juggernaut that The Rolling Stones had become, for a second time, truly stopped. They were so busy in themselves, even with some outside things that involved other band members, that by the end of 1983 after U was done and the new record deal - does anyone think Mick told anyone, 'Eh you lot, going to the Caribbean soon to start work on ah solo album'?

It doesn't seem like it, hence perhaps why Keith got so incensed, even though Mick stated they all knew about it.

The end of UNDERCOVER to the release of REWIND/VR the beginning of the end of the roller coaster that was The Rolling Stones occurred because it became known Mick was working on STB.

Mick alluded to it, perhaps without understanding it, in that 1982 interview? He was poised on the Stones doing something completely different for the next album, which absolutely came true, but he went further on his own. Mick knowing how long things take, perhaps he already planted the solo seed in 1982.

This was my first Stones concert. I'm sure I heard this interview on the radio at the time.

The level of excitement surrounding their gigs in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh was just incredible.
I recall paying £20 for a £6 ticket then paying another £20 to swap my balcony ticket for a front stalls ticket (about ten rows from the stage) just before the gig.

I skipped my school football team's cup final as it clashed with the concert, much to the annoyance of the coach and a few of my teammates.

Memories are a bit hazy after all these years, but I'm sure Billy Connolly introduced the band and could be seen in the box to the side of the stage really getting his rocks off...
The audience was LOUD and super enthusiastic. Mick alludes to this in the interview that Scottish crowds are wilder than their English counterparts.

When Mick was introducing the band he mentioned the Scotland v England Home International football match which was taking place the next day and the audience responded with a rousing rendition of Flower of Scotland...

I've subsequently seen the band another 29 times but nothing will ever beat the sheer excitement I felt before, during and after Edinburgh Playhouse 1982...