ESQUIRE MAGAZINE (1985): "Do you like Sinatra?" MICK JAGGER: "Hate him." ESQUIRE: "Why?" JAGGER: "He's not much of a role model, is he? I don't like his music very much, either."
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Dangerous Beauty reminds me of Back to Zero (not a compliment). Undercover of the Night was inspired by William Burroughs' novel Cities of the Red Night. I wonder if it was much read in Argentina.
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In the Stones' smartphone app under "Exclusive Videos" see the category "Presented by Citi" with videos from their "50" tour. I was already a Citi customer so, frankly, when I had the option to use their exclusive window to get great seats I wasn't going to turn up my nose, and got great seats for both Anaheim shows. Some might think it infra dig of the Sto
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Jay Leno said he'd tell his parents "Sting was on the show today" and they'd say "Who?" so he ended up telling them Gary Cooper was on and they'd ooh and aah.
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Chairman of the Board?
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QuoteMore Hot Rocks wow is that guy nervous or what? I think he was so nervous because he was thinking, "How do I get Keith to play the guitar on camera? And keep him doing it?" And he succeeded.
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I'd argue their voices are quite interchangeable just by the fact that Lennon and Jagger (successfully) sang some of the same Chuck Berry songs: 1) CAROL 2) MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE 3) SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN to name a few.
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I love it and have listened to it regularly since it came out. One YouTube comment said something like, "It came on the radio and I wondered who it was and tracked the song down on YouTube and and saw it was the Stones and thought, `Oh, only a veteran band could pull this off.'" I loved reading that. If I run across A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD on TV I'll tune in toward the end j
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Bob Dylan said he listened to Rivers' version of POSITIVELY 4th STREET a lot more than his own.
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Chuck Berry?
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Great to see. On 5-string near the end Keith wasn't quite playing Brown Sugar and not quite Start Me Up and I wondered: Why not go ahead and play more than an approximation, but then figured he was sparing the guy from hassling with permissions and royalties. Just leave the riff neither here nor there!
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Three on the guitar solo alone on Keith's TROUBLE (not Stones, I know) not including the acoustic in the back. Maybe a guitar "triple."
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The Stones should perform DOWNTOWN SUZIE on the Olé tour.
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The Beatles' "1+" will be released tomorrow as well as the new James Bond movie "Spectre." New 007 and Beatles. Is it 1965?
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Hey, it's good timing with Mick's comments before Honky Tonk Women on Disc 2 of the 2015 STICKY FINGERS: "On the saxophone and the tequila, Bobby Keys."
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My parents last year gave me a book of the Stones' notated music of songs from 1963 - 1971 that includes IN ANOTHER LAND. There's a royalty for Bill!
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It's almost a companion piece to Lonely at the Top. Although maybe Mick has met enough aspiring actresses he wasn't thinking of one song when he wrote the other.
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Rock stars and movie stars are notorious in the publishing world for failing to deliver acceptable book manuscripts. An article I read on the topic said Rex Harrison was signed to write his autobiography and, after a long time, his agent finally turned in the completed manuscript...of about 20 pages. The publisher said to the agent, "What the hell is this?" The agent said, "It will
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Doesn't exactly count, but Mick said UNDERCOVER OF THE NIGHT was influenced by William Burroughs's novel CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT. And obviously Mick borrowed that title in part: CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT/UNDERCOVER OF THE NIGHT.
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They're going to cover the Beatles' I Want You (She's So Heavy) but instead sing "Superheavy..." and take that song to empyrean heights.
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"I gave her laughter, she wanted diamonds." A Murdoch staffer said he never saw Murdoch raise his voice at anyone, and Jerry seems similarly temperate so maybe they'll get along.
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If the Stones play Havana Mick should come out wearing this T-shirt from the Bigger Bang tour: Mocking:
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Burgess relates meeting with Mick in his memoir. He said he liked the man if not his music.
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Mick spent a week in a remote Indian village about 10 years ago to explore some nearby ruins, and he said nobody recognized him for about five days, after which he rounded a corner when a busload of teachers from Mumbai were unloading and they all recognized him. He said it was a shock to be suddenly famous again. (I read this in—I think—MOJO.)
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I only just learned in the October 2015 UNCUT magazine that Keith plays bass on Billy Preston's That's the Way God Planned It (1969). With George Harrison and Clapton on guitars.
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Here's the exchange referred to above from UNCUT: UNCUT: "Do you compartmentalize when you write: this is a Stones song, this is a solo song? Does it work like that?" KEITH: "No, no. That way, I can't think. I just write the songs. If the Stones were ready to record around the same time...Some of them were actually hanging around, ideas from while the Stones were st
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Keith is interviewed in the October 2015 UNCUT magazine. Interesting that Crosseyed Heart has stuff from the A Bigger Bang sessions that didn't make it onto that album.
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QuoteStoneage I wonder if Sir Michael is the only 72-year-old in the world who still likes to go to discos and nightclubs? I've talked to people in that age range who want to go to such clubs but get frowned at by others there, so don't go. Celebrity lends its own cachet.
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William Goldman's book THE SEASON has a great chapter titled The Approvers. I daresay the relentless pessimists here likely share some qualities with those approvers.
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