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...Sanchez has his own line on the Stones: they are not nice people. His Jagger is a megalomaniac trampling over his friends, even members of the band, to achieve millionaire respectability, a pseudo-hipster who never outgrew his banal suburban upbringings and mother-love. His Keith Richards is a vicious junkie, a coward, a racist, a cruel manipulator. Richards exploits Sanchez throughout, to smuggle drugs or take the rap for auto accidents or whatever. Since he was paying Sanchez a grand a month to do almost nothing, it doesn't seem all that reprehensible...
...Sanchez's animus stems from the puritanical morality of the ex-junkie. There is nothing so tedious as a converted man and his born-again morality...
...point Sanchez uses the phrase "permissive society," a sure sign of brain death. Living with the Stones seems to have taken its toll on Sanchez--he's already gray--and now he's looking for somebody to blame...
...COURSE, SANCHEZ made his own life, chose to live with the Stones, chose heroin the way Keith did, and Jagger didn't. But assume the Stones did ruin Sanchez's life, even the lives of people like Robert Fraser or Marianne Faithfull. What of it? It doesn't matter if nobody wants Keith Richards living next door. The Rolling Stones exist on stage; it's the persona, not the person, that's germane to art, and "kiss-and-tell" histories like Up and Down are supremely irrelevant. As Jagger once told Chet Flippo, "It's the attitude." The endless "Midnight...
What has Tony Sanchez given the world? Nothing but this book of gossip and history lifted from Roy Carr's Illustrated Record, a book that won't give anybody joy or save anybody, a crotchety little book by a wasted old man. I don't like...