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It's not bad. I enjoyed it.

Charlie is only on 1 other cover, yes? (Voodoo Lounge tour)

Excellent !!!!!

I would like to caress your kneecaps .

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" About Keith Richards, and what he wrote in Life, I ask Jagger if an apology from Richards was . . .

"A prerequisite, you might say?" Jagger offers, with a tight smile. "Well, I think it was a good thing he got together with me and said that. I don't really want to talk about it apart from that, but I think it's good that he said it, and yes, it was a prerequisite, really. You have to put those things to one side; you can't leave them unspoken. It's very tempting – English people like to do that quite a lot. They don't like to face up to these things. Sometimes it's easy to push them out of the way, but I think it's good that we had that conversation."

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" Mick requested an apology? "He did," says Richards, "and I said that I regret if I caused you any, you know, inconvenience or pain, or something. It was . . ." Richards laughs. "I'd say anything to get the band together, you know? I'd lie to my mother."

Did Richards feel the band was in jeopardy at that point?

"No, not at all. No. I thought it was a very interesting little prick – a little shot of adrenaline."

Looking back now, is there anything he wishes he hadn't said in print?

"No, no, no, no." Richards laughs again. "I say what I say and that's it. I wouldn't retract a thing, man."

I have to wonder: Have there been times, perhaps even during this recent dispute with Jagger, that Richards worried that the band was just broken?

"Sometimes I'd look at it and say, 'This damn band is broken – but not unfixable.' But none of us, not me or anybody else, ever discarded it in the junkyard, but it was like, 'Yeah, it's a bit broken, and it'll take a bit of work to, you know, to get it into shape again.' That's what we've done the last year, is we've knocked the thing back into shape and into far better shape than I'd hoped for."

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" "Um, yeah. Grace is . . . is a wonderful thing. Only, though, when you see it done with imperfection. Otherwise, if everything's graceful all the time, you get used to it. It's the odd ungraceful move that enhances the grace of the rest of it. You get my drift?"

Watts also told me something about grace: "If the music we play together is great, then that's why Mick's forgiven Keith, and vice versa – that's why Keith's forgiven Mick, or himself, for whatever he said about Mick. I think that's probably the saving grace of it all."

Charlie appeared on the cover of the Bigger Bang issue of RS. "England's Newest Hit Makers" or something like that.

a lot of photoshop...

That's a pretty good read.

That's a must buy for me!

article left me thinking, Mick is doing this for the fans, he barely accepted Keith's apology and basically said, dude can't play for shit, but ronald is sober… oh well, legacy or not here we go!!! I'm Mick fucking Jagger!!!

I don't know what article you read, but my take on it is wildly different.

Pdog wrote on May 7^th, 2013 at 3:02pm:

If Mick barely accepted the apology, that's probably as it should be—because Keith sounds like he barely meant it!

I'm going to buy it.

Steel Wheels wrote on May 7^th, 2013 at 3:26pm:

I don't know what article you read, but my take on it is wildly different.

WHAT WAS YOUR TAKE?

Part of the allure of the Stones has always been the soap opera that goes on behind the scenes. At one time it was drugs and women they argued about. Now it's Keith's book. I've figured for quite a while now that the Glimmers have to have something to argue about - keeps things interesting.

Good article - good read.

" Now it's Keith's book. I've figured for quite a while now that the Glimmers have to have something to argue about - keeps things interesting.

Angie .................. for awhile there Keef was making fun of Mick's pee pee , calling him { " Brenda " } .... and then { " Sharon " } and even taught / got Ronnie to do it too .....

JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJACKY CAKES ™

Very "clean" portrait for a Terry Richardson photo.

He had a shoot with Georgia Jagger at his studio in nyc yesterday btw

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Mick made no comment about Keith's ability or Ronnie's for that matter. Where does Mick even suggest that Keith "can't play for shit" or comment on Ronnie's sobriety?

I haven't read the article since I posted the link, but someone please fill me in on Mick's direct quotes - I must have missed them. And I don't want anyone to point me towards the line credited to someone who won't give their name.

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