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...Mick Jagger, the Stones' co-leader, co-writer, singer, front man and flakmaster, is supposed to have said he didn't want to be a full-time rocker past 40. He denies saying it now, maybe because here he is, 46 and still doing it fine. That makes him older than the fan by a few years. The fan feels better already. Smiles, settles back, listens close...
...separately pursuing extra-Stones interests, playing the Bickersons in the rock press whenever they were queried about the plentiful tensions within the band. It was tough to pin down, even when the sniping drew a little blood, precisely what the boys were bitching about. Keith wanted to tour, Mick wanted to cruise the night life; individual ambitions ran contrary to the good of the band. Whatever it was, it seemed likely that they had been together too long -- 27 years, to be exact. So when Slipping Away begins and the husky fragility of Richards' vocal takes instant hold...
...Stones always encouraged a dynamic of dissipation -- "their satanic majesties" -- and loved flirting with the flame. That shadow Keith Richards talks about was always there, deeper and darker than with most bands. Mick was a dandy about his decadence; Keith was devout. One book about the Stones even insisted (over Richards' later bemused denials) that Richards had his blood washed, changed and purified...
...There's a lot of energy in the band right now," says Keith. "This new record's been miraculously fast for us. Mick and I are still holding our breath, saying, 'This can't last.' We pretty much wrote it in a month and laid down the basic tracks in about five weeks." To get the steel wheels on track so quickly, Jagger and Richards set aside those publicized vexations to find a common footing...
...this tripe the culmination of several thousand years of man's reflections? Let us all "say `No! in thunder," (Herman Melville) to Mick Jagger's "Sympathy for the Devil." Jagger and pop culture have better things to offer than what has been given to us here...