Keith Richards on Brian Jones, Mick Jagger and the New Memoir, 'Life'. Suddenly you're pulled up short: 'Oh, I'll do the book.' Sure, great. Then you realize what it entails. What follows are additional passages from that interview. Photos: Keith Richards on the cover of RSBlood From a Stone. Why did you finally decide a book was worth doing? There have been so many books out. Some of them are very good. I thought it was time to pull it all together, at least from my point of view. Basically, I followed his guidance. James would have to needle me: . It was all kind of disconnected, the way it worked. But that's the way the brain is — especially mine. Richards in 2. 00. Will the Stones retire? There are voices other than yours in the book — eyewitness accounts from friends and fellow troublemakers. Your son Marlon talks extensively about how, as a small boy, he was your personal road manager on those hair- raising Seventies tours. Were you shocked or surprised by how others saw you at your wildest and worst? I wasn't, because that's really the way it was. Marlon grew up on the road. It was an interesting experiment. The fact that he's turned into a perfect English gentleman is pretty amazing. But he grew up hustling on those tours. And he was very sharp at it. If you wanted something, he'd be like, . He went to school when he wanted to, and we always had tutors and stuff. But he was learning life on the road. It was an interesting education. I wish I had been brought up that way. My childhood was very boring. You seem to be a combination of both: her strength and clarity and Gus' bohemian ways with women and music. My mother was an extension of him, in many ways, which was why it was very easy to hang with my grandfather. It was like being with Mum — the same sense of humor, the same music. I could travel between those generations. Maybe it's like a hand- me- down. But that was basically her attitude. When things got out of hand, or you didn't know what to do, she'd just say . We had been playmates — we happened to go to the same school for awhile. But it was me seeing him again . It was the missionary feeling. Because, in a way, it formed itself. You didn't have to do much about it. Richards in 1. 98. Will the Stones make it another 2. Through the Past, Darkly. You and Mick started the Stones with Brian Jones, and in Life you are frank about Brian's self- destructive flaws. You talk about his importance in the early days, but by the time of his death, any sentiment you had for him is gone. I enjoyed his company, and I tried incredibly hard, in 1. But my attempts to bring Brian back into focus were a total failure. He had been a strong man, but he was wiping himself out. Brian demanded, you have to understand. And in a band like this, you also have to be supportive and giving. Having to deal with his jealousy, with Mick and me writing the songs, when you're working 3. I tried to be fair to him. But to be honest, he was a bit of a bastard. And it doesn't surprise me that he came to a sticky end. You've talked a lot about it in interviews. Despairing of ever finding love, the insecure Angelo uses a photo of his handsome brother Gino to convince a beautiful Italian girl across the sea to. The Tomatometer rating – based on the published opinions of hundreds of film and television critics – is a trusted measurement of movie and TV. But this is the permanent record. It was quite difficult. Because the relationship changed so much over the years. It's had its ups and downs, and sometimes you wonder why it was worth it. Mick and I could write so easily when he was next door, or on the next floor. That's when things exploded.
After Exile on Main Street, we had to learn a whole new way of being — of putting things together that were so disparate, coming together after several months and saying, . It was difficult — and I'm sure it was for Mick too. A movie about two high school kids who meet in class and fall madly in love with each other. Unfortunately, His father and her mother had a history of their own. Watch Endless Love online for free. The story of a privileged girl and a charismatic boy whose instant desire sparks a love affair made only more. If you're stuck together in a band, I could just walk next door in the middle of the night and go, . Your drug use became a complicating factor. Our lifestyles changed. Obviously, knowing each other for so long, I understood certain parts of what he was going through. And he understood perfectly well what I was doing. By then, we had been backstage together for years. Everybody knew what was what. I was doing my end of it. Was it hard to go back over the wreckage of your drug use — especially the damage on your family? One of the most dramatic portions of the book is when you leave your partner, Anita Pallenberg, because of her own harrowing addiction. I had no intention of leaving the mother of my children. But you gotta believe me that there was no option. And thank God she's still one of my best friends. We've been through the mill. And she admits she could be Vampirella when she wanted. At the same time, there is an underlying love that goes beyond all of that other stuff. The underlying love is effected. But it's not sundered. How would you describe the Mick Jagger who comes out at the end of the book? Mick and I are still great friends and still want to work together. Both of us know things about each other — and are still finding out. There is no final judgment on one or the other. To me, it's the miracle of juggling. You gotta juggle these weird things that don't actually come between you, but they are just there. There's no point in me saying, . It's tiring trying to get everyone's enthusiasm up at the same time. And a lot of times it isn't there. But when it is, it's fantastic. And you have to pick those moments, in order to still be the Stones again. Is there talk of something — an album, a tour — next year? We're whispering — I wouldn't say talking. Mick and I spoke about a month ago in New York. It's at that mumbling stage. But I had some outtakes from the last sessions we did . You don't want to push it too hard. Because they know I will say yes. I'm confirming what is already sort of confirmed in their minds. What I hope is that when we take these extended gaps, usually, when we come back together, something different comes out of it. You never know what that will be until you get there, when the ingredients are mixed. That's the story so far.
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