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...roll, Mick Jagger curled his famous lips into a smile and ducked the question. The Rolling Stones, he said, "will probably be making albums until we enter some sort of future senior citizens' facility." This month the Stones begin a 38-city tour of the States to back Tattoo You, their 27th release in 19 years. No one is laughing at Jagger's prediction...
...days in the stores, and suddenly people who have never been quite sure who that Brian Jones character was are proud to be Rolling Stones fans again. All of this is fine; better to have Jagger and Richards on the radio than Journey and REO Speedwagon. But Tattoo You and the Stones' apparent determination to play until they succumb to shuffleboard and bingo has some dedicated followers worried...
...simple thing out of the way: Tattoo you is a fine album, stuffed with rambunctious guitar licks and some of Jagger's best vocal work in recent memory. One cut, "Worried About You," is a legitimate hit, even by Rolling Stones standards, and along with several other songs, it provides a powerful reminder of how pure and how sweet the simplicity of real rock and roll can be. Yet there is certainly little innovation on this record, and over that the skeptics will gloat. Once again the faithful will search desperately, as they have for much of the past decade...
That brings us to Tattoo You, which is at once an admission by the Stones that, no, they don't have any new ideas and a reaffirmation that they do their old ones better than anyone else. They're still singing about what it's like to look back on the frantic nights when they cruised London and New York with willing and nameless young women; it all seems to be getting more and more distant. Jagger has always thrived on irony, and he is in top form on the latest album, using his own retreat from hard living...
...been speculated, be their last. During a press conference at Philadelphia's J.F.K. Stadium, where the 38-city tour will begin Sept. 25, Jagger made it clear that the Stones-still the best-known rock band in the world-would continue to roll and that Tattoo You, their just-released album, would not be a finale. "Performing is what we do as a living and a necessity," said Mick. "We will probably be making albums until we enter some sort of future senior-citizens facility...