That could be the single, although it’s long. This is quite good the way it is, though, really. I wonder why we didn’t do it like that! ‘Dead Flowers’ was country. “Fool to Cry” (Munich, December 12th, 1974): Another departure for you guys, a kind of C&W recitation part about your little daughter on your knee, saying, “Daddy, you’re a fool to cry.” “Oh yeah, it lends itself to that treatment. It’s more sort of stride piano, isn’t it?”īut you could see Bobby Short doing it, couldn’t you? And it’s a duet, me and Billy.”Īnd he’s playing that kind of cocktail piano. It’s got an incredible amount of overdub now, but down in the nitty-gritty it’s really just a rhythm section and voice, very simple, sort of four-to-the-bar kind of bass line and drums, sort of old-fashioned rhythm. What it is, it sort of came out of something that Billy and I were messing around with, just piano and voice. “Melody” (Rotterdam, Stones Mobile Unit, January 23rd, 1975): This one strikes me as the most radical departure on the album, with falsetto singing and a Basie-like horn arrangement. It’s kind of a strange lick but it is kind of danceable. It’s kind of half Caribbean rhythm and half not. “Well, they’re not the best dancers in the world. “A very deep subject, eh?” It kind of has a disco sound, but at times it sounds like Bill and Charlie want to play something different. “One last dollar / I’ve got my pride / I’ll cut your balls and I’ll tan your hide.” Okay: it’s about a South American whore, and the singer, a poor man, is trying to get her price down. If I tell you what the song is about, will you put it in your own words?” “Hey Negrita” (Munich, April 2nd, 1975): “I hate telling about it. There aren’t any of those kind of songs, unfortunately, on this album. It’s funny to think about it – it was very adolescent, those songs, about adolescent experiences. Why should it apply to every girl? But I think it was really true. ‘ But if you really listen to the lyrics closely – not too closely – ‘under my thumb, a girl who once had me down’ – you see? It’s not so unfair. Therefore they must secretly think that they were at some point – or could be – ‘under my thumb, there’s a girl. See, what happens is that you say something and they think it applies to all women. That’s rather like saying that all black people can dance. In fact, there actually are such things as stupid girls? But when I say it, it doesn’t seem to come out right. You know? I don’t think there was anything wrong with them. It’s great to actually have done that, isn’t it? Without realizing it, right? Well, they were really naive – and true. You should see what happens when those songs are played at parties now.
Well, because you aren’t singing about stupid girls or under your thumb. Watch Kevin Bacon, Jimmy Fallon Revise the Rolling Stones' 'Paint It, Black' But we just did it one day for a laugh and kept it on the album.” I think I heard it in the south of France in 1972 I may be wrong. I heard that years ago – I don’t know how old it is. “Cherry Oh Baby” (reggae, only nonoriginal song, Munich, December 15th, 1974): “Yeah, we did do that about twice on the tour last year. “Making it rhyme? We don’t have to worry about making it rhyme.“ ’ If it got as complicated as it could have been, it would really have got boring. It’s very hard, actually – unless you’re really good – to get any kind of narrative into a song of four and a half minutes. It’s quite a good idea to do if you’ve got the kernel of a good story. It’s a simple narrative.”Įver taken a tale like that and stretched it into, say, a short story? It’s about someone whose woman you take and he decides to take her back. It’s better, you know, than singing about the ordinary things. It’s a narrative, you know, a sort of chopped up narrative about a Southern murder. “No,” Jagger laughs, “that’s a Southern occupation. The album now to me is rather like an old hearthrug, it’s so familiar.” And you tend to just leave them, you know. ‘Worried about You’ and ‘I Love Ladies’ were a couple of them. “We had five more recorded that we just couldn’t fit on there. Of the album, Black and Blue, he waxed more talkative and ran down the list of eight tracks. I don’t think he’s signed the contract yet.” “I can’t tell you the dates yet,” Jagger said.
The Stones will play 36 dates in nine European countries from April 28th to June 23rd, and there are widespread reports that the month of July will be devoted to touring in the United States. In his pullover sweater, tan bell-bottoms and blue Adidas nylon jogging shoes, he could pass for the London art student he once was. He lounges in manager Peter Rudge’s office, calls for coffee and yawns and stretches with the same sleek indolence a waking cat displays. NEW YORK - With a new album and European and American tours planned this year, the Rolling Stones are back and Mick Jagger is happy about it.
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