I was learning to play this song last night and while reading the lyrics it dawned on me that it could be about Keith..im pretty sure it is about him...just wondered if anyone else thought it was

You just wandered off the stage and left me dealing with the pain ???

about divorce from Jerry Hall

69-72 Wrote:
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> I was learning to play this song last night and
> while reading the lyrics it dawned on me that it
> could be about Keith..im pretty sure it is about
> him...just wondered if anyone else thought it was


No, but Party Doll, Shoot off your mouth and Kow Tow almost certainly are.

as well as the solo stuff theyve both written about each other (in Keith's case, 'You dont move me' being another example), a lot of Stones songs written by either Glimmer Twin that on the face of it appear to be love songs about women are partly or primarily inspired by their own relationship with each other - Worried about You, All about You, Sweethearts Together being 3 examples



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Keith dont like phones...he's a fax man....



ROCKMAN

gazza how would sweethearts together,worried about you or all about you be about mick and keiths relationship?

john scialfa

All About You

From www.timeisonourside.com/SOAllAbout.html

It had a little bit of sentimental input there about his feelings for Mick at the time. Just listen to the lyrics.

- Bobby Keys

I went through a very tough thing in the early 80s with Mick. So you get some songs like All About You, to name just one. There's more on some of the Winos records.

- Keith Richards, 2002

backstreetboy Wrote:
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> gazza how would sweethearts together,worried about
> you or all about you be about mick and keiths
> relationship?


To add to what lamemodem states above, Keith has gone on record that he originally wrote All About You about his deteriorating relationship with Anita, but that when he was done with it realised it was more about Mick.

Both of them have often drawn on their own love-hate relationship as a source of inspiration for writing songs, and then adapting the lyrics to the more conventional style of writing, namely about male-female relationships. A lot of the subjects of their lyrics may also be 'composites' of different people, as they rarely write completely from an openly autobiographical angle.

A friend of mine who knew Keith a few years ago told me that Keith himself told her that they write in this way and that as far as HE was concerned, 'Worried about You' is primarily a song about their own relationship.


When 'Primitive cool' came out, much was made of 'shoot off your mouth' and 'kow tow' being about keith, as was the case a year later when keith released 'You dont move me'. It made good headline material because they were at each others throats and all 3 songs had a particularly nasty edge to the lyrics. Scratch beneath the surface of 'Party Doll' though and you'll see a really poignant and affectionate farewell (or so it seemed at the time) to a once great relationship. Lines like "you used to love to Honky Tonk" and especially :

I'll drink to the dancing days
I'll drink to your crazy ways
Through the whiskey haze

Face the music, face the truth
Chase that fleet sweet bird of youth
Grow up sweetly, grow up strong
Hear the heartbeat, in my song


strike me as being Mick's resigned farewell to Keith

Gazza Wrote:
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> backstreetboy Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > gazza how would sweethearts together,worried
> about
> > you or all about you be about mick and keiths
> > relationship?
>
>
> To add to what lamemodem states above, Keith has
> gone on record that he originally wrote All About
> You about his deteriorating relationship with
> Anita, but that when he was done with it realised
> it was more about Mick.
>
> Both of them have often drawn on their own
> love-hate relationship as a source of inspiration
> for writing songs, and then adapting the lyrics to
> the more conventional style of writing, namely
> about male-female relationships. A lot of the
> subjects of their lyrics may also be 'composites'
> of different people, as they rarely write
> completely from an openly autobiographical angle.
>
> A friend of mine who knew Keith a few years ago
> told me that Keith himself told her that they
> write in this way and that as far as HE was
> concerned, 'Worried about You' is primarily a song
> about their own relationship.
>
>
> When 'Primitive cool' came out, much was made of
> 'shoot off your mouth' and 'kow tow' being about
> keith, as was the case a year later when keith
> released 'You dont move me'. It made good headline
> material because they were at each others throats
> and all 3 songs had a particularly nasty edge to
> the lyrics. Scratch beneath the surface of 'Party
> Doll' though and you'll see a really poignant and
> affectionate farewell (or so it seemed at the
> time) to a once great relationship. Lines like
> "you used to love to Honky Tonk" and especially :
>
> I'll drink to the dancing days
> I'll drink to your crazy ways
> Through the whiskey haze
>
> Face the music, face the truth
> Chase that fleet sweet bird of youth
> Grow up sweetly, grow up strong
> Hear the heartbeat, in my song
>
>
> strike me as being Mick's resigned farewell to
> Keith

Wow. Heavy man!

I always thought All About You was about Anita Pallenberg.

It is about Anita but Keith wants to come off like this cool brother to Mick and he doesnt want the song to be about Anita, shes not his "wife" anymore. Today it's about Mick. Worried about you? About Keith? I wonder...

Gazza Wrote:
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> backstreetboy Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > gazza how would sweethearts together,worried
> about
> > you or all about you be about mick and keiths
> > relationship?
>
>
> To add to what lamemodem states above, Keith has
> gone on record that he originally wrote All About
> You about his deteriorating relationship with
> Anita, but that when he was done with it realised
> it was more about Mick.
>
> Both of them have often drawn on their own
> love-hate relationship as a source of inspiration
> for writing songs, and then adapting the lyrics to
> the more conventional style of writing, namely
> about male-female relationships. A lot of the
> subjects of their lyrics may also be 'composites'
> of different people, as they rarely write
> completely from an openly autobiographical angle.
>
> A friend of mine who knew Keith a few years ago
> told me that Keith himself told her that they
> write in this way and that as far as HE was
> concerned, 'Worried about You' is primarily a song
> about their own relationship.
>
>
> When 'Primitive cool' came out, much was made of
> 'shoot off your mouth' and 'kow tow' being about
> keith, as was the case a year later when keith
> released 'You dont move me'. It made good headline
> material because they were at each others throats
> and all 3 songs had a particularly nasty edge to
> the lyrics. Scratch beneath the surface of 'Party
> Doll' though and you'll see a really poignant and
> affectionate farewell (or so it seemed at the
> time) to a once great relationship. Lines like
> "you used to love to Honky Tonk" and especially :
>
> I'll drink to the dancing days
> I'll drink to your crazy ways
> Through the whiskey haze
>
> Face the music, face the truth
> Chase that fleet sweet bird of youth
> Grow up sweetly, grow up strong
> Hear the heartbeat, in my song
>
>
> strike me as being Mick's resigned farewell to
> Keith

And the happy ending of this story we can find in Mixed Emotions

Let's bury the hatchet, wipe out the past
Make love together, stay on the path

You're not the only one with mixed emotions
You're not the only ship adrift on this ocean

I've always noticed that right after "You Don't Move Me" - the next track on Talk Is Cheap is "How I Wish" - "that you were here again..."

Coincidence?

Green Lady Wrote:
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> I've always noticed that right after "You Don't
> Move Me" - the next track on Talk Is Cheap is "How
> I Wish" - "that you were here again..."
>
> Coincidence?


Inspired sequencing, I always thought!