Word: mick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mick Jagger had promised to celebrate his 29th birthday-and the end of a U.S. tour that grossed the Rolling Stones $3 million-by tearing off his clothes on the stage of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. As it turned out, that was one of the few things that didn't happen. At the Garden itself, packed with 20,000 screaming fans, the Stones presented their Pied Piper with a huge birthday cake, then cannonaded him with custard pies that splattered over the front-row customers. Then on to the birthday party at the normally staid St. Regis...
...appear in Boston, but bad weather forced their plane from Montreal to land at Warwick, R.I. There the Rolling Stones were passing through customs when a photographer began snapping pictures. First thing you know there was some pushing, then some shoving, then some cops. When things settled down, Mick Jogger, Lead Guitarist Keith Richard and three other belligerent members of the Stones' entourage were on their way to the police station. Boston Mayor Kevin White calmed 15,000 sweltering fans who were waiting in the Boston Garden by telling them that he had telephoned a plea to the Warwick...
...front, the place looked like the Stanley Cups. Banners, some claiming that Chestnut Hill loves Mick were draped over balcony walls, and somebody's mother's good sheets had been emblazoned with the bold crudity of the Rolling Stones' tongue logo. The front row had purposely been placed within three feet of a six foot stage. It was apparent that no one there would see anything, but the theory was to cut off potential space for crowding right in front of the stage. I also elected to make friends with the five people seated directly in front of me. They...
There are final impressions, the girls who fainted during the second song, and missed the rest of the show; Mick Taylor playing slashing leads without breaking expression; the complete imperturbability, or musicians, a fire-cracker went off not thirty feet from the stage, not a chord missed; finally, a last image of Jagger's complete exhaustion at the concert...
...latent dandyism of every town the Stones play in and calls into action an elaborate pecking order of the In who possess tickets (to the Royal Enclosure, as it were) and the Out who do not. The point of the concert is not the sound but the presence of Mick Jagger, who is still arguably the supreme sexual object in modern Western culture...