I wasn’t expecting this to be more than a 10 minute PR sell for the new album, but this is one of the best Stones interviews I’ve seen. Kudos to the NME chap.
Mick in the NME
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Pretty good interview that…Jagger seems engaged and the interviewer interjects at just the right moments.
That was good thanks Slotty
For those who understand German, this was also a very good interview, seems to be behind a paywall though, but I did previously read it
https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/mick-jagger-sie-fragen-mich-jetzt-nicht-wirklich-ob-ich-ballett-kann-a-6c5b46fb-6b5f-4234-8252-57ee339a013e
That’s funny – I published the Stanley Booth Stones book in 1984-5. It was sold to me as the real deal, by someone who had toured with the Stones, knew where all the bodies were buried etc. I remember it as a right rollicking read (“Yeah, that’s how it was” – K. Richards), though I’m not at all surprised to hear he was a bit of a bullshit artist.
wow you published it? I really enjoyed that book.
Probably some bullshit and probably some matters that Mick would be happy to distance himself from.
Quite. I seem to remember a letter reproduced in the book signed by all the Stones giving him the go-ahead.
Very enjoyable interview, nice to hear interviewer and interviewee on the same wavelength. I feel like that could have been a couple of hours long.
As an aside, Rick Beato’s interview with Sean Ono Lennon is another keeper.
It was a good interview, but he misremembers the NME reviews from the 60s; they didn’t have a star-rating system back then.
Excellent interview, thanks for sharing. I suspect he also misremembers the price of a pint, even at London prices, if he thinks ten bob only got you two pints back before the Stones even formed. When I started drinking in 1975 a pint cost 20 pence.
Pints were about 60p when I started in 1982. If we assume a pint is now 7 quid, that works out to be an annual increase of 6%.
16p a pint in 1975. Mind you, that was the student bar, and Young’s Ordinary. At the Royal George, down the road, Ruddles County was an eye-watering 30p.
The first time I paid a pound for a pint (it still makes me shudder… “a pound?!”) was 1986 in Coventry… I sense an Afterword Inflation Index brewing…
I was going through my relatively brief smoking phase then and 20 Regal also cost 20 pence. Four pints of McEwan’s Scotch and a packet of tabs for a quid !
Nice interview. But I preferred the NME when it was rude about everybody.
Arf!
I think I preferred Mick when he was not quite so eager to agree – so much put on laughter here I couldn’t watch it. I am a grinch though.
That’s how he got all those laughter lines….
Nothing is that funny.
(c) George Melly
If that’s what his face is like, imagine his scrotum
(c) David Hockney on WH Auden
I would say it was probably about 1978 in an episode of Little House on the Prairie. For reasons I forget, the very prim and proper Mrs Olsen auditions as a can-can type dancer at the local saloon. I would say she’s in her forties at that point.
At the audition, a sassy young woman questions her motives by directly pointing out the wrinkles on her face. The “laughter lines” response from Mrs Olsen is wonderful because she was famously uptight and laughter-free. “Honey, nothing is THAT funny!” is the devastating response from the young woman and you see Mrs Olsen’s broad smile crumble.
Nice one. MJ is a dude. I like this one too, taking about the blues album.