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WHEN WE LAST left the Glimmer Twins, Mick Jagger and Keith Richard, Keith had run afoul of some unpleasant Canadian gentlemen, who seemed to think he was pushing heroin, while Mick was off chasing, well, Some Girl other than his wife, and in general playin' the field every night. The Rolling Stones (remember them, the guys who used to piss in gas station lots and who now get followed in People Magazine), had just released a classic double-live record made up mostly of fold hits but had otherwise been impotent in the studio, fielding only tepid records like Black...
...have only heard the single, "Miss You" sounds a lot like the sort of thing that made Black and Blue such a cloyingly poppy album. Do not be misled by the games Jagger and Richard play. "Miss You" does indeed have a discoid beat, and Jagger does indeed sing like an Ohio Player (and some guy named Sugar Blue plays as classy a harp as you've ever heard), but "Miss You" is not much like the rest of the album at all. This is not to downgrade "Miss You" beyond reason. It is technically an excellent song...
...STAMP OF the old, uncompromising greatness is on the hard, stomping number that breaks the spell of "Miss You" and defines the pace of the album from there on, "When the Whip Comes Down." Jagger shouts from amidst a dense barrage of guitars riffing, and tells the story of a gay man who tries to make it in the City as a garbage collector. As with so many of the Stones' rockers, the hook is Mick and Keith howling the chorus, the only clearly intelligible words...
There is no Mick Jagger swagger to Glass, onstage or off. He evades questions about his private life. At Carnegie Hall, he appeared in blue jeans and seemed embarrassed by the applause. "I love it when people cheer, but I never know what to do," says Glass. His ensemble has no polish and even bumbles its bows, but Glass feels that the best act is no act. "I don't want to kowtow to popular culture - break my instruments onstage...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Bianca Jagger, 33, Nicaragun-born member of the glitter set; from Mick Jagger, 33, lead singer of the Rolling Stones; after seven years of marriage, one child; in London...