About having one of Boston Marathon bombers on the cover. Years ago they did a similar thing putting quite a flattering photo of Charlie Manson on the cover and running an in-depth interview with him... thereby elevating him to a kind of "star" status, exatly the same treatment/presentation as it if had been John Lennon or Bob Dylan. I remember that put me off Rolling Stone already way
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Agree with the order, the ranking I suppose. With the exception of Wyman.. I have always had the impression he is not very bright. Lacks a spark somehow, very plodding in his interviews.
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I see Keith as judgmental rather than moral. Always very quick to condemn others...
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" but when you watch those old Jagger interviews, its very much his disdainful arrogance that defined that Stones attitude in those days. Not Keith." Very true stupidguy2.... people often forget that.
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"Keith Richards... an inspiration to us all" How times have changed! Ridiculous thing to say though, in my opinion.
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Can't stick him.
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Mick has got such fantastic hair in the video. I know some claim it is a wig but it clearly isn't... just wish I knew the secret.
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Very strange.... I have such a clear memory of Mick on Desert Island Discs and choosing that RAF March Past... but there you go, can't even trust my own memory it seems. I have done Internet searches too now, and I must admit no sign of Mick on Desert Island Discs...
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Strange that Mick is not in the Desert Island Disc Archives, although such archives are often incomplete. I really do have a very clear memory of hearing him on it and I haven't listened to any of the other similar programmes. The period? Definitely before 1990 and perhaps as early as the 70s...
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Mick has done Desert Island Discs... remember listening to it years ago. What sticks in my mind is that one of his choices was the RAF March Past... he said he liked it because it had a good beat!
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Awful video. I like Dylan a lot, but the video is just kid's stuff in my opinion. Pathetic
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I can recall the context of the time... supergroups, Blind Faith and the rest. Mick Taylor was so young and success had come so easily to him... he thoought he could go on to greater things. Understandable at his age back then not to accept that he had already reached the pinnacle
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Jagger has often referred to reading in his interviews, saying for example that he always has a couple of books on the go, one fiction and one non-fiction and that he likes biographies. Regarding novels, he has mentioned reading Susan Sontag's the Volcano Lover and Ford Madox Ford. He is also familiar with Paul Bowles, and there is a clip somewhere of him meeting up with him in his house
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Keith is the source of the story but not the writer of the story, so he is not therefore properly speaking the author. I just think it is important to make this distinction, if for no other reason than out of fairness to those who do actually sit down and do the graft of writing their own story. OK, if they are not very skilled writers than it is edited, parts rewritten, suggestions made but th
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No, latebloomer, i do not mean irrelevant at all. The Stones were not irrelevant! But they were irreverent.
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What I don't like about all of this is that Keith doesn't actually write any of it. It is all ghost written and here he is being acclaimed as an "author". I find it all very depressing. The Rolling Stones... if there is one word that summed them up for me it is "irreverance" Funnily enough it is Mick who has retained something of that.
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Mick is defintely around 5 ft 10 inches. Funny how often people insist he is shorter.
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Dreadful band with a squeaky clean image like stuffed dummies with their fixed smiles, monotonous beats and awfully dull lyrics. I have a vaque memory of Jagger making some scathingly dismissive comment about them way back them.
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Good post Redhotcarpet, very true
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Shame that Cindy was banned, one of the best posters on here and totally misunderstood over the past week. And all this speculation.... OK some of it is negative and if Mick read through it all some would be very hurtful. But of course he doesn't does he? And certainly not right now. I am beginning to think that bv himself is a bit creepy to be honest. Spending his time hanging around th
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A simple fact is that going on tour with the Rolling Stones means putting your life on hold for several months. Once you sign up there is no going back and loved ones having problems have to be more or less set aside to get by without you.... that must be part of the anguish for Mick... he put the band before everything else just oncee too many times at the age of 70 ... Tragic.
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Always thought that Mick was the one with such a charmed life.... always healthy, all his children seemingly happy and healthy, his ex's getting on well with each other and and all their stepchildren.... Now this, the first real tragedy in his life I suspect. Strange feeling when you feel a certain sadness for somebody you have never met, but there you go. (And everybody seems to have
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Blackhat indeed. What the hell does Bob Crow have to do with the Stones, music, the counter-culture, Mick Jagger's trainers, Keith's dog or anything else...
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To me, who grew up in South London not so very far from Dartford, in a similar kind of working class/lower middle class neighborhood and only a few years after Keith, this letter seems odd. Just doesn't ring true. Regarding "crap"... it was not a word really used back then as I remember. In my opinion, for what it is worth, I think it is false and probably not even penned by Ke
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Jagger said he was short? Not really... about average for an Englishman of his age... around 5' 10" ... just like me!
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All he is doing is trying o keep moving and get out of there. Stop and sign some autographs? What would happen then? He would be at the centre of a scrum and then the situatin could be truly dangerous.
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I totally agree. Among other things, an intelligent lyric writer and that is all too rare. Seen in him concert twice. Seated at the piano he performed the quieter songs really well and then really let it rip on the louder stuff. Really great. Also a man who's not afraid to do something different, doesn't always play it safe.
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Agree, too much violence. Duquesne Whistle video also came to mind for me... use of violence jsut to grab attention is pretty cheap to my mind.
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This is the real question... Jagger is the one on most dangerous ground. Nobody can cover for him. For me it is what I fear the most. Not Keith or Ronnie messing up... but Jagger who suddenly on stage looks like an old man going through the motions. Hasn't happened yet... and I think he is bright enough and self-aware enough not to push it that one last time that is one time too many. Certa
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She misses the point entirely. What the Stones represented was hedonism. On that score, Mick has remained relatively true to his principles!
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