Part Two Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane


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This programme contains some strong language and some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.

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You might be able to soundcheck, yeah.

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Yeah.

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One, two. One, two, one, two.

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One, two. One, two. One, two. Hello, hello, hello. Hello, hello.

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OK. I think we're good.

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So, before we start, I just want to ask you, how's your memory?

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It's pretty good in some places,

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and absolutely and completely non-existent on others.

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I can remember some things but not other things.

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But then, it's written down, usually, somewhere.

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What do I tell you? I can't remember much of it, to be honest!

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Everybody has selective memories, you know.

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And in the end, I just think, oh - what the hell!

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You know, I say that old adage -

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never let the truth spoil a good story.

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With me, we cover a lot of ground, and it'll just be natural, you know.

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-Whatever happens. Have you got a light?

-Yes, sure.

-Oh, I got one.

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LIGHTER

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I don't know whether it's going to demystify anything,

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and I suppose it's not going to be a glorification either.

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Above all, it should be entertaining.

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It should be fun, because that's what the band was.

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-I'm amazed by it myself, I mean it's just...

-LAUGHS

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It's almost a fairy story, you know?

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John Lennon once said the Rolling Stones would break up

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over Brian Jones's dead body.

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What d'you think it is about the Stones that enabled them

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to stay together?

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I think basically it was their decision to start touring again.

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Because before I joined the group, although they'd been making records,

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they hadn't really played before the public for nearly two years.

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So in a sense, when I joined the group,

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it was virtually a new group.

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MUSIC: "Honky Tonk Women" by The Rolling Stones

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# I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis

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# She tried to take me upstairs for a ride ... #

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I was 20, almost 21.

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I'd just finished a six-week American tour with John Mayall.

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I got a phone call from Mick

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saying the Stones need a replacement for Brian.

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And so I became part of the band.

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# Honky tonk women

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# Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky-tonk blues ... #

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We were playing in stadiums that were full.

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You'd glance back over the amplifiers

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and you'd see the limousines bouncing.

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You know, because the energy in the stadium was electric.

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To me, the real interest in playing guitar is to play guitar with another guy.

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Two guitars together, if you get it right,

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it can become like an orchestra.

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And Mick Taylor is a virtuoso.

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# Honky tonk women

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# Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues... #

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APPLAUSE

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Woo!

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Oh, yeah!

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How you finding it?

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I've been following the Stones ever since they started.

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-How old were you then?

-Thirteen.

-D'you have tickets?

-Yes.

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There's a rumour that Mick Jagger

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is supposed to come out in his birthday suit.

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-Are you expecting that?

-I hope he does!

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-You won't be shocked?

-Of course not!

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# You got to move, you got to move

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# You got to move, child, you got to move

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# Oh, when the Lord gets ready

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# You gotta move

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# You may be high, you may be low

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# You may be rich, child You may be poor

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# But when the Lord gets ready, you gotta move

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All right!

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A the end of the '69 tour we went to Muscle Shoals and we cut

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Wild Horses, Brown Sugar and You Gotta Move, which are great tracks.

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JAGGER HUMS MELODY

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During those recording sessions or just before,

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somebody must have put it to somebody in the Stones organisation

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that we went to Altamont to do a free concert.

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# You got de blues! #

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It was never planned to be part of the 1969 tour.

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It was really just a throwaway.

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You know, a lot of these free shows were going on and we said,

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"Well, you know, why don't we do one?"

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I read in one of the papers that you'd be giving a free concert

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in San Francisco.

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We are doing a free concert in San Francisco on December 6th.

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It's creating a sort of microcosmic society which sets an example

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to the rest of America as to how one can behave in nice gatherings.

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Your mind is not really on that gig so we'll just get it together,

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and when they've got it together, we'll go there and do it. Simple as that.

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Just a quick question. You were at Woodstock and you've now been up to Altamont, right last night.

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How does it stack up? D'you have the room?

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-I think we have the room, sure.

-Is this going to be Woodstock West?

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Well, it's going to be San Francisco.

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You know, we were doing an arena tour

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and jumped off the edge into free concerts in empty hills.

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HELICOPTER ROTORS

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EXCITED CROWD

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Come on, Mick!

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They hit Mick! Somebody hit him!

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MAN SOBS

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There are a number of people on and around this stage who should not be here.

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No!

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I wanna see Mick Jagger, God damn!

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The whole thing was out of control.

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I mean, all normality and control had gone. There was no... nothing.

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The Hell's Angels were the people doing the security.

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So we thought, if that's the way they do things in San Francisco,

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it was very hippy-dippy...

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thing.

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Except these were actual proper Hell's Angels.

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It was a bit like asking the Nazi party to sort out

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the front of the auditorium.

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When I got a bad vibe about it,

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when I saw the condition of the Angels.

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Now I can tell, these guys are on acid and Ripple wine.

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And they're - already in the early afternoon,

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they're starting to get antsy.

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These guys were out there, just looking for trouble.

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OK, hold it! Hold it!

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You know what's happening?

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I thought, uh-oh! This is going to get ugly tonight.

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And it did.

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CROWD CHEERING

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Oh, babies!

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There's so many of you!

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Just be cool down the front there. Don't push around.

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Just keep still and keep together.

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Oh, yeah!

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MUSIC: "Sympathy For The Devil" by The Rolling Stones

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# Please allow me to introduce myself

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# I'm a man of wealth and taste

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# I've been around for a long, long year

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# Stole many a man's soul and faith

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# Pleased to meet you Hope you guess my name

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# Oh yeah

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# But what is puzzling y'all Is the nature of my game. #

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Ah, you can get down with it now!

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MUSIC FADES

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MUSIC AT FULL VOLUME

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CROWD NOISE

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CROWD NOISE FADES

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We were scared. I mean, it was scary.

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These people were crazy, and they were like standing next to you,

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and we didn't know to control it, stop it...

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it was completely out of our control. It was just a nightmare.

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Everybody was fucking scared, man.

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I'm sure it was far more frightening to the people in the audience than it was for us.

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Keith! Keith! Keith! Will you cool it, and I'll try and stop it.

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Hey, people! Everybody just cool out!

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What we should have done, just closed shop and gone home.

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But you couldn't.

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You got 300,000 people out there that've come, you know.

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Er, people! Who's fighting and what for?

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It's a hard line to call, you know.

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I mean if we'd walked off, I think there'd have been a riot.

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Why are we fighting?

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So I just did the best I fucking could under bad circumstances.

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Stop, cats! That guy there! If he doesn't stop it, man!

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Listen, either those cats cool it, man, or we don't play.

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It was just realising that you were out of control...

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the whole thing was out of control.

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If you're in any kind of arena or theatre, you can just leave,

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you know, off stage. There wasn't...

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you were very aware that you were surrounded,

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so you were very vulnerable. That was the feeling.

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That's why you shouldn't have been in this situation.

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-Sam, we need an ambulance.

-And then, some bastard gets killed in it.

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SCREAM

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-What happened?

-He pulled out a gun.

-He did?

-Yes.

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The Hell's Angels took the gun away from him.

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One of them has it now. He showed it to me.

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They proceeded to put him down on the ground and start kicking him.

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He has a couple of stab wounds in his back and one over his ear here.

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We tried to keep him alive and when we got here the doctor checked him out, and that's it.

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They pronounced him dead at 6.20.

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HELICOPTER ROTORS

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GENTLE ACOUSTIC GUITAR

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We were pretty beat up after Altamont.

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We were always thought of, after that, as dangerous.

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We weren't really dangerous, but that's the way they looked at it.

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We had to endure all this blood-letting

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and blame-throwing, so it wasn't a very good mood.

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We were in this maelstrom, daily.

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It was like being in a river, you know, that was flooded,

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and you were just being dragged all the way down this river.

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It's all a bit of a kaleidoscope.

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I was definitely on another planet at the time.

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And everybody's got a different way

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of dealing with...

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-and I didn't for a while.

-LAUGHS

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I took to the stuff!

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As I say, I never had a problem with drugs - I just had a problem with cops!

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I'd been pushed up against my front door,

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by them beeping under the bushes.

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They were just harassing me really.

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There was a definite move on and it became obvious that

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we had to make a decision, "OK - we're moving!"

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Keith always says that he was chased out of England by the cops!

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He may believe that, but it's not actually true!

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But the real reason the band left was money.

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We all thought that our taxes had been paid.

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We discovered in 1971 that we all owed in the region of £100,000 each.

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Income tax was so high that to earn the money to pay back the tax,

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we decided that the best way of doing that was to leave the UK.

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You know, we got shipped to France.

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I think, in France, I felt a lifting of the weights

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which I didn't realise that was on me in England.

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We couldn't find a studio in the south of France,

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so eventually we rummaged, and I said, I've got an enormous basement.

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I'd love to live on the factory - saves going to the studio.

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It's great, just going downstairs.

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TAPE MACHINE REWINDS

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That whole period was incredibly intense

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because it was a new beginning for the band,

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and once we picked up our guitars, we were in our own world.

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It was a troglodyte existence down there.

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9-10 at night until 7-8 in the morning, you know.

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The idea of playing a note before the sun went down was ludicrous!

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I mean, when you take Dracula time...!

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# Gimme a little drink from your lovin' cup ... #

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My kind of structure is a kind of loose structure,

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but when you have no structure, it's really bad.

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Recording in the South of France was like that because of all the drugs.

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The junk was there to help me do the music.

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It gave me a space that I probably wouldn't have found otherwise

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and I'd take anything if it would help me

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stay up long enough to finish this damn song!

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# I am nitty-gritty and my shirt's all torn

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# But I will love to spill the beans with you till dawn

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# And gimme a little drink from your loving cup. #

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All right! All right! Everybody say yeah.

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Wooh!

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There's a little bit of phasing in the tempo.

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You know, we would almost get to the point of recording a song,

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Keith would have to leave because he wanted another fix, or whatever the reason.

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It was a nightmare.

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Instead of working on a song for two hours,

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you worked on it for two fucking weeks!

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-You got the MC on there?

-Yeah, I think it's ready now.

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It just becomes disorganised.

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You've got some recording engineers strung out,

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because they want to be strung out,

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because they think it's the thing to do.

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Which isn't the thing to do for a recording engineer, I can assure you!

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I thought it was quite amusing, a lot of it, people sort of...

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they hang around Keith, and they think they're Keith!

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It's ridiculous.

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-A good band always thrives when there's...

-Adversity?

-LAUGHS

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And no, probably by then,

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we felt very much like a sort of pirate nation to ourselves,

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and you'd dig in your heels

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and say, "We may go down, but we're not going down your way!"

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So you're kind of getting, the bulldog comes out in you, you know!

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Before the 1972 tour,

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there was a letter from the US State Department, basically saying

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that if there was any kind of fallout, we could be in trouble.

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They made a lot of threatening noises which creates

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this backs-to-the-wall, Winston Churchill kind of stuff.

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That's all very kind of galvanising,

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and breeds a nice team spirit.

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I think a lot of people were convinced that in some way,

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you and your music are an evil influence.

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That must be a challenge that you would take seriously

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and want to reply to.

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I don't take it seriously any more. I think we've won.

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-Were there any girls on that tour?

-Girls?

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There were so many of them!

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-Hedonism was very much on the rise.

-It was the hedonistic period.

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Any nature of restraint had been a bit pummelled.

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The idea of being restrained

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and disciplined was perhaps a kind of no-no.

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It's got its own film crew, it's got journalism, it's got its celebrities.

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It becomes more than just a tour. It becomes a grand event.

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And that also became the fashion of tours.

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Its rather ill-disciplined, hedonistic binge around America.

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Ladies and gentlemen - the Rolling Stones.

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APPLAUSE

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MUSIC: "Brown Sugar" by The Rolling Stones

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# Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields

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# Sold in a market down in New Orleans

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# Scarred old slaver knows he's doing all right

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# You shoulda heard him just around midnight

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# Brown sugar, how come you taste so good?

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# Brown sugar, just like a young girl should ... #

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When we got together, something happened.

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Something magical happened, and no-one could ever copy that.

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# Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot ... #

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Every band follow the drummer.

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We don't follow Charlie - Charlie follows Keith.

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So the drums are very slightly behind Keith.

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It's only fractions of seconds, you know. Miniscule.

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And I tend to play ahead. It's got a sort of a wobble.

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And it's dangerous because it can all fall apart at any minute.

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# Just like a young girl should

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# I say yeah, yeah, yeah

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# How come you taste so good?

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APPLAUSE

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MUSIC: "Sweet Virginia" by The Rolling Stones

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We're talking about Rolling Stones, you know.

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It was an unstoppable momentum going on,

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and in a way, you were swept along with it.

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It's not as if you were particularly in control, or any of us.

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Couldn't stop, really, anytime, to self-doubt.

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Or second guessing.

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We were just going on instinct and doing what we wanted.

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Almost like a law unto ourselves.

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# Trying to stop the waves behind your eyeballs

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# Uh-huh, drop your reds... #

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What is a Rolling Stone?

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What is a Rolling Stone!

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Someone that's not settled. Like a pirate?

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Or a gypsy.

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Someone who likes to travel,

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voyage, adventurer.

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Yippee! Another concert.

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My mum's out there.

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I don't want no indecent gestures, you understand?

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None of that wiggly stuff out there in front of my mum.

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OK, Mrs Keys - this is for you!

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# ... shit right off your shoes. #

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-D'you know who he is?

-I do.

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He's one of those hippy long-hairs, those hippy radicals.

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Really, all you wanted to do was play music.

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You're always trying to get it better,

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trying to get the band tighter.

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After a show, we'd be in a hotel room,

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knocking out songs for the next album or the next single.

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It was a continual day-by-day process.

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When you're working with another person,

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it's great to bounce things off.

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If you're really working well together, you feed off each

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other's ideas and build upon each other's ideas, so that you've

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got someone that takes your thing and takes it to another level.

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Writing songs is a great thing.

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It's like a jigsaw puzzle and a kaleidoscope put together,

0:27:410:27:45

except it's all done through the ears.

0:27:450:27:48

And on that, I would say Mick

0:27:480:27:49

and I probably very much on the same groove.

0:27:490:27:52

If I wanted to brew up the essence of Jagger and Richards together,

0:28:040:28:07

I suppose it would be Midnight Rambler.

0:28:070:28:11

Anybody else could have written any of our other songs, but I don't

0:28:110:28:14

think anybody could have written Midnight Rambler except Mick and me.

0:28:140:28:19

And nobody else would have thought of making an opera out of the blues!

0:28:190:28:22

LAUGHS

0:28:220:28:24

MUSIC: "Midnight Rambler" by the Rolling Stones

0:28:270:28:31

# Talk about the midnight rambler Everybody got to go

0:28:370:28:43

# Talk about the midnight rambler

0:28:430:28:46

# Did you see him jump the garden door?

0:28:460:28:50

# Sighin' down the wind so sadly

0:28:510:28:54

# Listen and you hear him moan

0:28:540:28:57

# Talking about the midnight rambler

0:28:570:29:00

# Everybody got to go. #

0:29:000:29:02

A-ooh!!

0:30:000:30:01

I got... A-ooh!

0:30:040:30:07

I got... A-ooh!

0:30:100:30:13

Aaaaaaah-ooh!

0:30:150:30:20

# Told you about it

0:30:240:30:27

# Oh

0:30:270:30:30

# Well, you heard about the Boston...

0:30:330:30:39

# Honey, it's not one of those

0:30:430:30:48

# Well, I'm just talking about the midnight...

0:30:500:30:56

# Yeah, you see me shut the bedroom door

0:31:000:31:04

# I'm called a hit-n-run raper in anger

0:31:070:31:14

# Or just a knife-sharpened tippie-toe

0:31:140:31:19

# Or just a shoot-'em-dead brain-bell jangler

0:31:220:31:27

# Everybody gotta go

0:31:310:31:36

# If you ever see the midnight rambler

0:31:380:31:42

# Everybody got to go

0:31:480:31:50

# Higher, higher, higher

0:32:110:32:15

# Well, I'm talking about the midnight rambler

0:32:170:32:21

# Yeah, everybody gotta go

0:32:210:32:23

# Well, I'm talking about the midnight rambler

0:32:240:32:27

# Did you see him jump your garden wall?

0:32:270:32:29

# And if you ever catch the midnight rambler

0:32:290:32:32

# He'll steal your mistress from under your nose

0:32:320:32:36

# Go easy with your cold fandango

0:32:360:32:39

# I'll stick my knife right down your throat. #

0:32:390:32:41

Wooh! Yeah!

0:32:470:32:50

CHEERING

0:32:500:32:57

TRUMPET BLAST

0:33:080:33:11

BACKGROUND CHATTER

0:33:150:33:17

(You came all the way from...)

0:33:230:33:25

When you unzip your suit, and put your jeans back on, or whatever,

0:33:340:33:38

that's all finished with.

0:33:380:33:39

I don't want to be my extrovert character all the time.

0:33:410:33:45

ACOUSTIC GUITAR

0:33:470:33:53

A lot of times when you're being interviewed, you don't want to

0:33:530:33:56

talk about what they want to talk about.

0:33:560:33:58

You kind of don't answer their question,

0:33:580:34:00

and you kind of get rid of it.

0:34:000:34:02

# Angie, Angie... #

0:34:020:34:06

-Where we going, by the way?

-I don't know!

0:34:060:34:09

# When will those clouds all disappear? #

0:34:090:34:12

There's a kind of protection against intrusion.

0:34:120:34:17

What are you trying to protect?

0:34:180:34:22

You're trying to protect your inner self, I think is the answer.

0:34:220:34:26

'The Rolling Stones arrived at Sydney today

0:34:280:34:31

'to begin their 1973 Australian tour.'

0:34:310:34:33

# ..With no money in our coats... #

0:34:330:34:36

You've been thrown into this - you start out and you're a blues player.

0:34:360:34:40

And then suddenly this fame thing comes in,

0:34:400:34:43

and everybody has to handle that in their own way.

0:34:430:34:48

# Angie... #

0:34:480:34:50

Charlie hates it.

0:34:520:34:54

Charlie's perfect role would to be in the Rolling Stones

0:34:540:34:57

except nobody gives a shit who you are!

0:34:570:35:00

# Angie... #

0:35:000:35:01

Are you still enjoying playing in the group as much as you used to

0:35:010:35:05

do about 7-8 years ago?

0:35:050:35:07

Yes, the same, really.

0:35:070:35:11

Good, and the plans for the next... future.

0:35:110:35:15

-Can you tell us something about that?

-The next future... I dunno...

0:35:150:35:20

Carry on making records, I suppose.

0:35:210:35:23

Try do do...

0:35:250:35:27

And things. I don't know.

0:35:270:35:29

'I think the Rolling Stones are great.

0:35:290:35:32

'But I kind of don't see me in it, somehow!

0:35:330:35:36

'I've never really lived or admired that world anyway,

0:35:380:35:41

'so I don't really believe it.

0:35:410:35:43

'But I'm very much a loner. And always have been.'

0:35:470:35:51

-'How do you see yourself?'

-'That's the most difficult thing of all.

0:35:530:35:57

'That's what takes you your whole life to find out. What you are.

0:35:570:36:00

'But I don't know.'

0:36:000:36:03

-But you're not this image that people have of you.

-I don't know what that is.

0:36:030:36:06

There's a lot of things that could go up to make one person's

0:36:060:36:10

personality, so that you can be everything.

0:36:100:36:13

# Woh, Angie, don't you weep all your kisses still taste sweet

0:36:210:36:27

# I hate that sadness in your eyes... #

0:36:300:36:34

-How do you keep yourself grounded?

-I don't know. I didn't for a while.

0:36:350:36:40

Heroin can be a...a sort of state of suspended animation, really.

0:36:410:36:48

Keith just got busted all the time.

0:36:490:36:52

And he got away with it all the time,

0:36:520:36:54

that was the amazing thing, he ended up with just small fines

0:36:540:36:57

and warnings, and he just went through his life like that.

0:36:570:37:00

You were always worried, because you if Keith gets busted,

0:37:020:37:05

we just thought that was the end of the band, really.

0:37:050:37:08

He'd drive off the road regularly. He should never have been driving.

0:37:080:37:12

I was always worried that there was going to be a call when Keith

0:37:120:37:15

had driven off the road and that was the end of Keith, you know.

0:37:150:37:18

Keith, there is in England a kind of underground Top 10,

0:37:180:37:22

about people who are expected to die shortly.

0:37:220:37:25

Am I on the list?

0:37:250:37:27

-Yes, you're technically number one position in there.

-Really? OK.

0:37:270:37:31

I'll let you know.

0:37:310:37:33

Mick Taylor, he said to me then, "I'm thinking of leaving".

0:37:350:37:38

And then of course he deteriorated

0:37:400:37:42

because he started to get into drugs and all that sort of shit.

0:37:420:37:46

I always thought he left because he got bored.

0:37:480:37:51

I thought he was fed up with playing with us.

0:37:520:37:55

I'd no idea why he'd left the band.

0:37:560:37:58

I thought it was the stupidest idea I'd ever heard.

0:37:580:38:02

And he never really told me the reason.

0:38:020:38:04

-Why on earth would you leave the Rolling Stones?

-I don't know.

0:38:060:38:09

Maybe I thought that I would be able to protect my family from...

0:38:090:38:15

not Keith's orbit, but drugs.

0:38:150:38:17

Because I slowly became addicted to heroin.

0:38:180:38:22

There comes apoint where you have to choose between one or the other,

0:38:220:38:25

or you die. And I...

0:38:250:38:27

I've survived.

0:38:290:38:31

Mick Taylor leaving was the curve ball

0:38:330:38:35

because that was a really good band,

0:38:350:38:38

and it had this balance between Keith and Mick Taylor.

0:38:380:38:42

In a way I was surprised, but it's always a drag.

0:38:420:38:45

I spent years putting this line-up together,

0:38:470:38:49

and just as I was getting it right...

0:38:490:38:52

There's another part of me that...

0:38:520:38:54

it seemed like it was somehow inevitable.

0:38:540:38:57

I was there at Robert Stigwood's party,

0:39:010:39:03

sitting between Mick Taylor and Mick Jagger when Taylor

0:39:030:39:06

leaned across and said to Jagger, "I'm leaving the band."

0:39:060:39:09

And Mick went, "What! Is he serious?"

0:39:090:39:11

I said, "I think he is, Mick!" So Mick Taylor said, "Yes, I am."

0:39:110:39:16

And he got up and walked out. And Mick said, "Will you join?"

0:39:160:39:19

And I said, "Yes, of course," in a New York minute!

0:39:190:39:24

MUSIC: "Hey Negrita" by The Rolling Stones

0:39:240:39:28

# I said hey Negrita, hey now

0:39:390:39:46

# Move your body, move your mouth... #

0:39:460:39:50

Ronnie was like a breath of fresh air in a way.

0:39:510:39:55

His personality, was... I mean, he's such a barrel of laughs.

0:39:550:39:59

He fitted like a glove.

0:40:010:40:02

Ronnie became the link between the two strong egos

0:40:020:40:05

and the two light egos.

0:40:050:40:06

-And it worked great.

-Tune-up room session.

0:40:060:40:10

Fitting into their mould was easy for me.

0:40:130:40:15

I found the compatibility with playing, the whole lifestyle,

0:40:170:40:23

the humour, the camaraderie, you know, it was like "I'm home!"

0:40:230:40:28

We were transitioning into a more of a kind of not so dangerous...

0:40:280:40:33

the feeling was that you were having a good time. It was more kind of fun.

0:40:330:40:38

But it was more colourful and produced,

0:40:380:40:41

and wasn't supposed to be taken so seriously,

0:40:410:40:44

and I think it was very much the Ronnie thing.

0:40:440:40:46

It's in the blood, you see.

0:40:460:40:48

It all comes down to those two hours onstage. They're the reward.

0:40:480:40:55

He's a great guitar player and also very sympathetic.

0:40:550:41:00

Ronnie was somebody I'd party with as well.

0:41:000:41:02

-I mean, he was well-versed in every manner.

-LAUGHS

0:41:020:41:06

# My sweet ass

0:41:080:41:11

# Hey, Negrita

0:41:110:41:13

'Nearly one million applications have been received

0:41:170:41:19

'for their 13 British concerts alone.

0:41:190:41:22

'But most will be out of luck.

0:41:220:41:24

'Only 80,000 seats are available for what will be the Stones'

0:41:240:41:28

'first tour of Britain in three years.'

0:41:280:41:30

-Oh, man! The Rolling Stones are just it, you know.

-What do you mean?

0:41:300:41:34

They're the greatest rock & roll band in the world!

0:41:360:41:38

-How long have you been here?

-Since Friday morning, about 8am.

0:41:380:41:42

How do you eat?

0:41:420:41:44

We take a walk to the liquor store, buy a loaf of bread,

0:41:440:41:46

some baloney and cheese.

0:41:460:41:48

Then we put it all together and eat it.

0:41:480:41:51

We lived and breathed the songs, Keith and I.

0:41:530:41:56

Morning, noon and night, and when we slept, which was very rare.

0:41:560:42:01

Very rare!

0:42:010:42:02

And we'd live and breathe other influences,

0:42:040:42:07

whether it'd be Mozart, or Marley.

0:42:070:42:09

The whirlwind, the hurricane, the tornado of just been caught

0:42:180:42:22

up in the band and the highs of the dope and the drink

0:42:220:42:24

- my feet never really touched the ground for many years.

0:42:240:42:28

You felt almost pretty much immune to exterior hassles, you know.

0:42:540:42:59

It seems perilous now.

0:43:040:43:06

At the time, it was like, "Come on, throw it at us.

0:43:060:43:11

"Let's see what you've got."

0:43:110:43:13

And you can get used to that feeling of invulnerableness,

0:43:180:43:23

even though it's completely not true.

0:43:230:43:25

# You gotta move You gotta move... #

0:43:300:43:35

He was ridiculous. Fancy coming into Canada with all that heroin.

0:43:370:43:45

# When the Lord gets ready You gotta go... #

0:43:450:43:53

'Police found one ounce of heroin...'

0:43:540:43:57

'Lead guitarist Keith Richard was charged with possession of heroin...'

0:43:570:44:02

'If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life for trafficking.'

0:44:020:44:08

# When the Lord gets ready You gotta go... #

0:44:100:44:21

It got a bit close, I thought, then - the going to prison bit, or being

0:44:230:44:27

locked up. Perhaps Keith played that role really too well, you know.

0:44:270:44:31

# Oh, oh woh-oh-oh

0:44:340:44:35

# Oh, oh woh-oh-oh

0:44:370:44:40

# Yeah, yeah

0:44:410:44:43

# You gotta go

0:44:450:44:47

It was a realisation in Canada that I was actually jeopardising

0:44:470:44:52

the band, you know.

0:44:520:44:54

If they were going to put me away, it was bye-bye.

0:44:540:44:57

That's why I stopped. That's it. The experiment...

0:44:570:45:00

we're pulling the plug on this once and for all.

0:45:000:45:03

It was a end-of-chapter there, and turn the page.

0:45:030:45:08

'Richards is taking psychiatric treatment to end his addiction,

0:45:080:45:11

'and continue as a musician.

0:45:110:45:14

'Judge Lloyd Graburn said Richard's effort to remove himself from

0:45:140:45:17

'the drug culture was an example for others, so he was put on probation

0:45:170:45:21

'for a year and ordered to continue psychiatric treatment as part

0:45:210:45:25

'of his probation, he would have to give

0:45:250:45:27

'a concert at the Canadian Institute for the Blind.'

0:45:270:45:31

Usually, it's the guy in the black hat that gets killed at the end,

0:45:330:45:39

but not this time, brother. Not this time.

0:45:390:45:42

MUSIC: "Miss You" by the Rolling Stones

0:45:420:45:45

In a way, the Stones stayed...

0:45:490:45:51

because one thing that was more important than smack was the band.

0:45:510:45:55

# I've been holding out so long I've been sleeping all alone

0:45:550:45:59

# Lord I miss you

0:45:590:46:03

# I've been hanging' on so long I've been sleeping all alone

0:46:040:46:08

# Lord I miss you something I have to say

0:46:080:46:11

# Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

0:46:120:46:17

# ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh... #

0:46:170:46:19

I was quite relieved that he'd cleaned up some.

0:46:190:46:22

I mean, we did things quicker. I think we were a bit more focussed.

0:46:220:46:26

There was more effort and more energy.

0:46:260:46:30

It was a renewal.

0:46:350:46:37

We'd come through all this shit and all that,

0:46:370:46:39

and we were brothers-in-arms.

0:46:390:46:41

After all, we'd always said, whether we liked it or not, the band comes first.

0:46:410:46:45

# Yeah, I've been haunted in my sleep

0:46:450:46:48

# You've been starring in my dreams Lord I miss you

0:46:480:46:50

'Their popularity's never been greater and with a following

0:46:500:46:53

'like this, the Stones don't even have to advertise.'

0:46:530:46:56

# Waiting on your call, and the phone rings... #

0:46:560:46:59

You love the Rolling Stones more than you love God!

0:46:590:47:02

# Hey, what's the matter man?

0:47:020:47:04

# We're going to come around at twelve

0:47:040:47:06

# With some Puerto Rican girls that are dying to meet you

0:47:060:47:10

# We're going to bring a case of wine

0:47:100:47:13

# You know, mess and fool around like we used to

0:47:130:47:16

The Rolling Stones have done it again.

0:47:160:47:18

'100,000 fans watched Mick Jagger prance

0:47:180:47:21

'and dance as he has for nearly 20 years.'

0:47:210:47:23

They are starting a tour which will take them to 21 cities

0:47:230:47:27

to be seen by a million and a half adoring fans.

0:47:270:47:30

The anti-heroes of the '60s are back on the road for their biggest tour ever.

0:47:300:47:33

The Rolling Stones had gone from being the band

0:47:390:47:42

that everyone hated to the band that everyone loved.

0:47:420:47:45

We'd gone from unacceptable to totally acceptable.

0:47:450:47:49

Everything had changed.

0:47:490:47:51

We became a kind of institution and we hadn't even got to be 40 yet!

0:47:510:47:55

# Tell me, where you been so long?

0:47:580:48:03

# Come on! Come on!

0:48:050:48:07

Cats have nine lives, and we seem to have got

0:48:090:48:13

through about 20 fucking lives so far! I don't know how we do it.

0:48:130:48:16

# People ask me what's the matter with you?

0:48:180:48:22

# Sometimes Sometimes I just say to myself...

0:48:220:48:27

# You know what I'm saying?

0:48:270:48:31

# Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

0:48:310:48:34

# Ooh ooh ooh ooh

0:48:340:48:36

We have never been as high as this. We have never been as successful.

0:48:390:48:43

We've done it.

0:48:430:48:45

# I guess I'm lying to myself It's just you and no-one else

0:48:450:48:49

# Lord I won't miss you baby

0:48:490:48:53

# I miss you child, I miss you child

0:48:530:48:56

# I miss you baby

0:49:030:49:05

# I, I, I... #

0:49:070:49:13

There's instant fucking astonishment.

0:49:130:49:15

-This is a simple rule, that it don't pay!

-LAUGHS

0:49:150:49:19

I miss you!

0:49:360:49:37

You had this kind of 'fuck the world,

0:49:400:49:44

you can do anything' attitude.

0:49:440:49:45

For a moment that was definitely there.

0:49:450:49:48

You felt you were riding on the wave, and all that.

0:49:480:49:51

But you can't be young for ever.

0:49:510:49:54

# Yeah, heard the music drumming all down the line

0:50:000:50:06

# Yeah, hear the motors humming

0:50:090:50:14

# Right down the line

0:50:140:50:17

# Yeah, hear the women working

0:50:180:50:23

# Right down the line

0:50:230:50:26

# All down the line

0:50:270:50:30

# We'll be watching out for trouble, yes

0:50:300:50:34

# All down the line

0:50:340:50:36

# We're gonna keep the motor running, yeah

0:50:360:50:39

# All down the line

0:50:400:50:41

# I need a shot of salvation

0:50:410:50:44

# Once in a while

0:50:440:50:47

# Hear the whistle blowing

0:50:480:50:49

# Hear it for a thousand miles

0:50:510:50:53

# All down the line

0:51:110:51:13

# We're gonna keep the motor running, yes

0:51:130:51:15

# All down the line

0:51:180:51:19

# We're gonna bust another bottle, yes

0:51:190:51:23

# All down the line

0:51:230:51:24

# You can't say yes and you can't say no

0:51:240:51:27

# Just be right there when the whistle blows

0:51:270:51:30

# I need a sanctified mind to help me right now

0:51:300:51:34

# Won't you be my little baby for a while?

0:51:460:51:50

# Won't you be my little baby for a while?

0:51:520:51:57

# Won't you be my little baby for a while? #

0:51:580:52:02

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