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...MICK...
...battles with water coolers and golf clubs, and / get so hung over that his eyes "were like two holes in a snowbank." When Ted Williams tried to explain the science of hitting, says No. 7, "he got me crazy just thinking about it." Yet this incessant candor makes The Mick a winner. Ingenuously, Mantle speaks of growing up in the Oklahoma dust, of Joe DiMaggio's icy remoteness, of Casey Stengel's Old Perfessor act that slipped on and off like a warmup jacket, of Billy Martin's violent insecurities, of the Hodgkin's disease that killed his father...
...MICK, Mantle...
BORN. To Jerry Hall, 29, Texas-tall (5 ft. 10 1/2 in.) supermodel; and Mick Jagger, 42, durable lead singer of the Rolling Stones; their second child, a son; in New York City. Weight: 7 lbs. Jagger already has three daughters --Elizabeth Scarlett, 18 months, by Hall; Karis, 14, by American Singer Marsha Hunt; and Jade, 13, by ex-Wife Bianca Jagger...
There is a lot of first-string instrumental talent on Empire Burlesque: Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones present and Mick Taylor of the Stones past; Drummer Jim Keltner; and most especially the drum and bass team of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, who give the record a funky, rumpled-up, island-inflected, rhythmic drive. With all this professional sheen, Empire Burlesque is still startling, an unexpected flash-forward. Like a sudden cut in a film, this record is disorienting at first -- Where did this come from? What's going on? -- but so well judged and timed that after...