The Rolling Stone Interviews
Language: English
Pages: 496
ISBN: 0316005266
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The greatest interviews with the greatest rock stars, movie stars, and cultural icons--uncensored and unfiltered--are published together in one remarkable volume in celebration of "Rolling Stones" 40th anniversary.
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was wonderful. It was a nice trip. I’d just been in England for a couple of weeks and I went by their apartment, and they were leaving and said why don’t you come back with us. It’s really funny, but they were terribly frightened to get off the plane. They were terribly frightened of America. They even said, “You go first.” ’Cause the whole thing about Kennedy scared them very, very much. They really thought it would be possible for somebody to be there and want to kill them, because they were
human condition nobly, elegantly. I know the kind of man he was. If someone said, “This picture of a cock offends me,” he would have taken it down and put a flower up. Because to him they were the same photograph. And they were. Robert’s photographs of flowers were very evocative. He had no problem with labeling his work. The small body of S&M photographs that he had, he put in a portfolio called X. He agreed with stickers that said one had to be over eighteen to walk into a room that had this
person. They were around. What I was most interested in twenty-four hours a day was the rural music. The idea was to be able to master these songs. It wasn’t about writing your own songs. That didn’t even enter anybody’s mind. In a way, this line of talk brings us to your newest album, ‘Love and Theft.’ Its sense of timelessness and caprices reminds me of ‘The Basement Tapes’ and ‘John Wesley Harding’—records that emanated from your strong folk background. But ‘Love and Theft’ also seems to
the first to say, “Forget it.” But we’re fighting people’s misconceptions about what rock & roll is supposed to be. You’re supposed to do it when you’re twenty, twenty-five—as if you’re a tennis player and you have three hip surgeries and you’re done. We play rock & roll because it’s what turned us on. Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf—the idea of retiring was ludicrous to them. You keep going—and why not? You went right from being a teenager to being a Stone—no regular job, a little bit of art
stilettos and black stockings with a seam. Her hair was soft, while my hair was very full and thick. Alline was really sexy. Do you recall the first time you laid eyes on Ike? I thought he was terribly ugly. There had been such a buildup about him because he had the hottest band around. When I first saw him, I remember thinking that I had never seen anyone that skinny. He was immaculately dressed, real clean and all sculptured—the bones and the hair. He wore his hair processed. I didn’t like