I don't know why I'm not hearing it. To me, records are sounding synthesized. It's all too manufactured for me at the moment. Even drum beats, where the guys do them on pianos. So are there any contemporary or modern artists whom you've enjoyed recently? There are some brothers from Australia that I liked very much. Very soulful stuff. I'm sure Louis Armstrong made a couple. Muddy Waters.
Basically, I'm a very roots man. I don't know who else has made 70 and still works, except me. I don't know what age people were when they did things, that's my problem. I don't even know quite honestly how old I am. It goes on and on. So Keith Richards is wearing sweatpants at home? Always hard to pick favorites. And I will go also to Bridges to Babylon , which is, I think, much underrated. But I mean, that's when we were hitting our stuff and it was easy because we were working at home, we were still not thrown out of the country and having to duck and dive.
So it was easier to work then because we weren't exiles. But in actual fact, I really hate to pick out favorite things because they've all got something on them that is special to me. Quite honestly I love them all, some a little more than others. I think Steel Wheels was damn good, and Voodoo Lounge too. But then, there's so many. I mean, I can't do that. I'll cut it down for you.
Exile on Main Street. What's the state of the Stones album you're working on now? You said it was halfway along before the pandemic hit? But it just was so glaringly obvious that it needed to come out when it did; we rush released it. But otherwise, yeah, we're halfway through, but sort of at the moment, like everybody else, we're stuck. I've got a dog here who's barking. Excuse me for a moment.
Come on, girl. Yes, who's my girl? This one's called Sugar. We've got two. The other one's called Honey. How imaginative, huh? My last question is: People have been wondering in interviews when you're going to die for the past 50 years. How satisfying is it to still be here? Every day is a pleasure.
I mean, I don't wish to defy anybody's predictions, and I'm really not interested in them. But I'll croak when I croak, and everybody will know. What do you miss most about going on tour and playing live? They were married in on Richards' 40th birthday, and remain married to this day. It was the only time Richards has been married, despite being in a relationship with style icon and 'It Girl' Anita Pallenberg between and When Richards was in a relationship with Anita Pallenberg, they sadly lost their son Tara Jo Jo Gunne after two months to sudden infant death syndrome.
Richards also has five grandchildren, three from his son Marlon including Ella Richards picture above and two from his daughter Angela. Having been arrested for drug-related crimes five times in his life, and being both open and frank about his drug use, this helped cultivate Richards' now-iconic 'hellraiser' image. In November , perhaps customarily, Richards declared "I'd like to croak magnificently, onstage" when asked about retirement.
Then one day I was at dinner and I'm like 'woah, Scissorhands. If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know? Anita [ Anita Pallenberg ] was shooting Performance at the time, not far away, but I ain't going down to the set.
God knows what's happening. As a minor part of the plot, Spanish Tony was trying to steal the Beretta they were using as a prop off the set.
I wanted to distance myself from the relationship between Anita and Donald. Donald was a decadent dependent of the Cammell shipyard family, very good-looking, a razor-sharp mind poisoned with vitriol. He'd been a painter in New York, but something drove him mad about other clever and talented people--he wanted to destroy them.
He was the most destructive little turd I've ever met. Also a Svengali, utterly predatory, a very successful manipulator of women, and he must have fascinated many of them. He would sometimes take the piss out of Mick [ Mick Jagger ] for his Kentish accent and sometimes me, Dartford yokel. I don't mind a good put-down now and again; I come up with a few.
But putting people down was almost an addiction for him. Everybody had to be put in their place. Anything you did in front of Cammell was up for his ridicule. He had a fairly developed sense of inferiority in there somewhere.
Donald Cammell was more interested in manipulation than actually directing. He got a hard-on about intimate betrayal, and that's what he was setting up in Performance, as much of it as he could engineer.
I met Cammell later in LA, and I said, you know, I can't think of anybody, Donald, that's ever got any joy out of you, and I don't know if you've ever got any joy out of yourself.
There's nowhere else for you to go, there's nobody. The best thing you can do is take the gentleman's way out. And this was at least two or three years before he finally topped himself. The Beatles , those chicks wore those guys out. They stopped touring in - they were done already. They were ready to go to India and shit. But there's not a lot of roots in that music. I think they got carried away. I would try to keep a few people alive who don't really have a chance.
Love thy neighbor! I can't get any more Christian. Brotherly love is not such a bad thing, actually. And it would be nice to be able to live without fear. How would you like a smack in the fuckin' mouth? At the end of the Seventies, with the emergence of the punks, we were denigrated as boring old farts.
But it was a good kick in the butt. They're really just a lot of tarts! Can they sing? Can they play? The world's gone mad, it needs something like them.
But they won't stay very long. It's for mass-media consumption anyway. I would tell the genie: Do something for the others. Help the Africans, help those who hate each other. Help them to overcome this hatred! I don't need anything. I got enough! Go and use my wish for the others. Nobody's got the right to judge over what I am putting into my body, apart from myself. Can I make it until the next fix?
You could be wallowing in the gutter and think, "I'm elite. There's only one fatal disease, I've concluded. It's called hypchondria. And it is deadly. I expected him to come in like this [changes his voice and raises his arm in a threatening gesture] "Where have you been, you little sod? Charlie Watts is my absolute favourite.
He has all of the qualities that I like in people. Great sense of humor, a lovely streak of eccentricity, a real talent, very modest. This morning, when I was listening to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons", tears came to my eyes.
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