Keith Richards and Mick Jagger have had their issues over the years, but Richards’ frustration over Jagger’s solo career threatened to break up The Rolling Stones. The guitarist resented the fact that Jagger prioritized his solo music over a Rolling Stones tour. It didn’t help that he flat-out disliked Jagger’s album. In his memoir, Richards disparaged his bandmate’s album. Here’s the surprising reason he compared it to Mein Kampf.
Keith Richards openly disliked Mick Jagger’s solo album
While The Rolling Stones worked on their album Dirty Work, Jagger simultaneously promoted his debut solo album, She’s the Boss. Richards found this frustrating, at least partly because he didn’t think the album was worth it.
“Mick’s album was called She’s the Boss, which said it all,” he wrote in his memoir Life. “I’ve never listened to the entire thing all the way through.
Keith Richards openly disliked Mick Jagger’s solo album
While The Rolling Stones worked on their album Dirty Work, Jagger simultaneously promoted his debut solo album, She’s the Boss. Richards found this frustrating, at least partly because he didn’t think the album was worth it.
“Mick’s album was called She’s the Boss, which said it all,” he wrote in his memoir Life. “I’ve never listened to the entire thing all the way through.
- 7/3/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Keith Richards and Mick Jagger consider each other brothers and, in their decades of knowing each other, have fought as only families can. Their relationship suffered in the 1980s, and they’ve hit many bumps in the years since. Still, they manage to work together in The Rolling Stones. This might have something to do with the fact that Richards has learned to appreciate all that Jagger does, even when he’s frustrated with him. He shared how his own solo career helped with this.
Keith Richards said his solo career gave him a new appreciation for Mick Jagger
In 1986, Jagger opted to work on his solo career instead of touring with The Rolling Stones. While this caused a major rift within the band, it also gave Richards an opportunity to pursue a solo career of his own. He formed the group X-Pensive Winos with Steve Jordan. For the first...
Keith Richards said his solo career gave him a new appreciation for Mick Jagger
In 1986, Jagger opted to work on his solo career instead of touring with The Rolling Stones. While this caused a major rift within the band, it also gave Richards an opportunity to pursue a solo career of his own. He formed the group X-Pensive Winos with Steve Jordan. For the first...
- 7/2/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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The Rolling Stones’ “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” features a member of the Plastic Ono Band.The member of the Plastic Ono Band explained what happens when The Rolling Stones play songs.He discussed what he thought about “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” in retrospect. The Rolling Stones | Michael Ochs Archives / Stringer
The Rolling Stones‘ “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” featured instrumentation from a member of the Plastic Ono Band. The musician discussed what he thought about The Rolling Stones as a band. In addition, he said he didn’t know he was being recorded when he played on “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking.”
A member of the Plastic Ono Band felt The Rolling Stones are unique
Bobby Keys was a saxophonist who was part of the Plastic Ono Band. He also repeatedly worked with The Rolling Stones. During a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone,...
The Rolling Stones’ “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” features a member of the Plastic Ono Band.The member of the Plastic Ono Band explained what happens when The Rolling Stones play songs.He discussed what he thought about “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” in retrospect. The Rolling Stones | Michael Ochs Archives / Stringer
The Rolling Stones‘ “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” featured instrumentation from a member of the Plastic Ono Band. The musician discussed what he thought about The Rolling Stones as a band. In addition, he said he didn’t know he was being recorded when he played on “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking.”
A member of the Plastic Ono Band felt The Rolling Stones are unique
Bobby Keys was a saxophonist who was part of the Plastic Ono Band. He also repeatedly worked with The Rolling Stones. During a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone,...
- 2/1/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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John Lennon’s “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night” features a saxophone solo by another artist.The artist to leave the silly part of himself behind in the studio when he worked on the track.John said “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night” was more of a novelty song than “Imagine.” John Lennon | Harry Benson / Stringer
John Lennon‘s “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night” features a saxophone solo played by another musician. The saxophone player discussed what he thought of John as an artist. In addition, he explained what he thought of “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night.”
John Lennon’s ‘Whatever Gets You Thru the Night’ features a Rolling Stones collaborator
Bobby Keys was a musician who was a member of the Plastic Ono Band who also played on many records by The Rolling Stones. During a 2012 interview with Relix, he said one of the highlights...
John Lennon’s “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night” features a saxophone solo by another artist.The artist to leave the silly part of himself behind in the studio when he worked on the track.John said “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night” was more of a novelty song than “Imagine.” John Lennon | Harry Benson / Stringer
John Lennon‘s “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night” features a saxophone solo played by another musician. The saxophone player discussed what he thought of John as an artist. In addition, he explained what he thought of “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night.”
John Lennon’s ‘Whatever Gets You Thru the Night’ features a Rolling Stones collaborator
Bobby Keys was a musician who was a member of the Plastic Ono Band who also played on many records by The Rolling Stones. During a 2012 interview with Relix, he said one of the highlights...
- 1/30/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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A member of the Plastic Ono Band worked on The Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar.”The song was originally going to include a guitar solo from Mick Taylor.Some early pressings of the song included Taylor’s solo. The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger | Evening Standard/Getty Images
A member of the Plastic Ono Band played the saxophone solo on The Rolling Stones‘ “Brown Sugar.” The track was originally going to include a guitar solo from The Rolling Stones’ Mick Taylor. Subsequently, the member of the Plastic Ono Band explained why the original solo got nixed.
A member of the Plastic Ono Band collaborated with The Rolling Stones during his birthday party
Bobby Keys was a member of the Plastic Ono Band who also worked on a number of records by The Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and other classic rock bands. During a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone, he discussed playing...
A member of the Plastic Ono Band worked on The Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar.”The song was originally going to include a guitar solo from Mick Taylor.Some early pressings of the song included Taylor’s solo. The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger | Evening Standard/Getty Images
A member of the Plastic Ono Band played the saxophone solo on The Rolling Stones‘ “Brown Sugar.” The track was originally going to include a guitar solo from The Rolling Stones’ Mick Taylor. Subsequently, the member of the Plastic Ono Band explained why the original solo got nixed.
A member of the Plastic Ono Band collaborated with The Rolling Stones during his birthday party
Bobby Keys was a member of the Plastic Ono Band who also worked on a number of records by The Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and other classic rock bands. During a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone, he discussed playing...
- 1/30/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
From the moment their first shows were advertised, Fanny was promoted as an all-girl band, but the label wears thin in director Bobbie Jo Hart’s Fanny: The Right to Rock. Each member says it themselves in the feature documentary, and tried telling record companies there were far more interesting things to say about them beyond the mystery of their gender. They broke through, but only barely, because sexism in rock and roll was so deeply ingrained psychologically, not even the promotion departments could think of anything else to say.
This is probably why Alice de Buhr remarks, at one point in the film, that every kick on her bass drum was a kick in a crotch. Fanny was committed to the music. The group’s members included bassist Jean Millington, guitarists June Millington and Patti Quatro, keyboardist Nickey Barclay, and drummers de Buhr and Brie Darling. Their sound was...
This is probably why Alice de Buhr remarks, at one point in the film, that every kick on her bass drum was a kick in a crotch. Fanny was committed to the music. The group’s members included bassist Jean Millington, guitarists June Millington and Patti Quatro, keyboardist Nickey Barclay, and drummers de Buhr and Brie Darling. Their sound was...
- 6/4/2022
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos have essentially been dormant for the past three decades, but they briefly came back to life earlier this month to perform three songs at the Love Rocks benefit in New York City. Richards has been on the interview circuit promoting the re-release of the group’s 1992 LP Main Offender, and he explained to Rolling Stone‘s Brian Hiatt that his solo career started after Mick Jagger decided to make his own music outside of the Stones.
“I was offended to have to make solo records at the time,...
“I was offended to have to make solo records at the time,...
- 3/24/2022
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Apple TV+’s docuseries 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything makes it seem like The Rolling Stones’ Exile On Main Street album was more fun to record than listen to, and that sets a high standard. The record distills the band’s sounds, from acoustic world music political ballads, through deep heartfelt blues, to honky tonk so funky you have to shake your ass. The group plays country, Southern blues, R&b, and the almost-punk-before-punk “Rip This Joint.” “Tumbling Dice,” is a radio staple. Keith Richards even took the lead vocals on a track to keep you happy. There was so much material, it came out as a double album. What could be more fun than that?
Richards’ Nellcôte mansion, on the Côte d’Azur in the South of France, was the hardest rocking musical getaway paradise in 1971. It was a Rock and Roll Main Street, and even the...
Richards’ Nellcôte mansion, on the Côte d’Azur in the South of France, was the hardest rocking musical getaway paradise in 1971. It was a Rock and Roll Main Street, and even the...
- 5/21/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Bobby Keys Remembered: Jerry Castle Talks ‘With the Band,’ One of Stones Saxophonist’s Last Sessions
Jerry Castle was at the peak of Rolling Stones fandom when he met Bobby Keys, the hard-living, Texan-born sax player who performed gritty, iconic solos all over Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, and several other Stones classics. Castle, a Nashville-based, Americana and rock singer-songwriter, was watching the Stones in Exile doc on repeat — and halfway through reading Keith Richards’ autobiography, Life, which portrays Keys’ pirate ways in vivid detail — when he reached out to saxophonist in 2014, asking him to play on a song he’d been working up, “With the Band.
- 12/18/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Keith Richards’ December 15th, 1988 live recording of the penultimate show from his first U.S. tour with the X-Pensive Winos will be reissued as a limited edition box set. Live at the Hollywood Palladium arrives on November 13th via BMG. The concert was part of a 12-city tour that followed their release of Talk Is Cheap.
The X-Pensive Winos included guitarist Waddy Wachtel (Everly Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, Linda Ronstadt, Stevie Nicks), Richards’ long-time collaborator, drummer Steve Jordan, bassist Charley Drayton, Rolling Stones collaborator and keyboard player Ivan Neville, singer Sarah Dash,...
The X-Pensive Winos included guitarist Waddy Wachtel (Everly Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, Linda Ronstadt, Stevie Nicks), Richards’ long-time collaborator, drummer Steve Jordan, bassist Charley Drayton, Rolling Stones collaborator and keyboard player Ivan Neville, singer Sarah Dash,...
- 10/1/2020
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Groundbreaking photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank — best known to rock fans as the director of the notorious 1972 Rolling Stones fly-on-the-wall tour documentary Cocksucker Blues — died September 9th at his home in Inverness, Nova Scotia. He was 94.
“We’re very sad to hear the news that the visionary photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank has died,” the Rolling Stones said in a group statement. “Robert collaborated with us on a number of projects including the cover design of Exile on Main Street and [he] directed the Cocksucker Blues documentary. He was an incredible...
“We’re very sad to hear the news that the visionary photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank has died,” the Rolling Stones said in a group statement. “Robert collaborated with us on a number of projects including the cover design of Exile on Main Street and [he] directed the Cocksucker Blues documentary. He was an incredible...
- 9/10/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
James Schamus to deliver keynote address at the Fleadh Forum.
The full programme for the 31st Galway Film Fleadh has been unveiled, with Sophie Hyde’s Animals and French actress Sandrine Dumas’ directorial debut Sing Me Back Home among the latest additions to the programme.
Sing Me Back Home, about a young woman’s relationship with her grandmother, will open the Fleadh on July 9.
Ivan Kavanagh’s Never Grow Old, a dark western about an Irish undertaker on the American frontier, starring Emile Hirsch and John Cusack, will close the festival on July 14.
Of the 84 new local and international features,...
The full programme for the 31st Galway Film Fleadh has been unveiled, with Sophie Hyde’s Animals and French actress Sandrine Dumas’ directorial debut Sing Me Back Home among the latest additions to the programme.
Sing Me Back Home, about a young woman’s relationship with her grandmother, will open the Fleadh on July 9.
Ivan Kavanagh’s Never Grow Old, a dark western about an Irish undertaker on the American frontier, starring Emile Hirsch and John Cusack, will close the festival on July 14.
Of the 84 new local and international features,...
- 6/26/2019
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
James Schamus to deliver keynote address at the Fleadh Forum.
The full programme for the 31st Galway Film Fleadh has been unveiled, with Sophie Hyde’s Animals and French actress Sandrine Dumas’ directorial debut Sing Me Back Home among the latest additions to the programme.
Sing Me Back Home, about a young woman’s relationship with her grandmother, will open the Fleadh on July 9.
Ivan Kavanagh’s Never Grow Old, a dark western about an Irish undertaker on the American frontier, starring Emile Hirsch and John Cusack, will close the festival on July 14.
Of the 95 local and international feature films...
The full programme for the 31st Galway Film Fleadh has been unveiled, with Sophie Hyde’s Animals and French actress Sandrine Dumas’ directorial debut Sing Me Back Home among the latest additions to the programme.
Sing Me Back Home, about a young woman’s relationship with her grandmother, will open the Fleadh on July 9.
Ivan Kavanagh’s Never Grow Old, a dark western about an Irish undertaker on the American frontier, starring Emile Hirsch and John Cusack, will close the festival on July 14.
Of the 95 local and international feature films...
- 6/26/2019
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
In 1986, the future of the Rolling Stones was uncertain. Instead of hitting the road for the band’s new album Dirty Work, Mick Jagger went out as a solo act. So Keith Richards did something he’d always resisted: He started a new band. The guitarist gathered a group of friends he called the X-Pensive Winos and holed up in a Quebec studio to cut Talk Is Cheap, which mixed Memphis soul, reggae and early rock.
“I wasn’t under the pressure of the Stones,” he says. “It was a lot looser.
“I wasn’t under the pressure of the Stones,” he says. “It was a lot looser.
- 4/12/2019
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
During the mid Eighties, the relationship between Keith Richards and Mick Jagger hit a historic low, as Jagger tested solo waters. “Mick started to become unbearable.” Richards wrote in his 2010 memoir Life. You could hear the rift: 1983’s Undercover and 1986’s Dirty Work often sounded like lackluster attempts at keeping up with the times.
So in 1988, Richards took advantage of time off in the Stones’ schedule and went into the studio with a crack band he dubbed the X-Pensive Winos, including guitarist Waddy Wachtel, keyboard player Ivan Neville and drummer-producer Steve Jordan.
So in 1988, Richards took advantage of time off in the Stones’ schedule and went into the studio with a crack band he dubbed the X-Pensive Winos, including guitarist Waddy Wachtel, keyboard player Ivan Neville and drummer-producer Steve Jordan.
- 3/27/2019
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
“Yoko and I always live about two-thousand light years’ speed when we’re working,” John Lennon says in one of the 1971 interviews unearthed on the new box set Imagine: The Ultimate Collection. “It’s usually moving very fast and there’s always a small hurricane around us.” But John was kidding about the “small” part—in 1971, he was caught up in a full-scale creative hurricane. His solo classic Imagine is an experiment he only tried once, making a state-of-the-art professional rock album with a rotating cast of top-notch studio hired guns.
- 10/5/2018
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock ‘N’ Roll screens Thursday March 8th at 7:00pm at Schlafly Bottleworks (7260 Southwest Avenue Maplewood, Mo 63143). This is part of the A Film Series “Culture Shock” Film Fest which has moved to the second Thursday of every month.
On October, 18th 1986, on the sixtieth birthday of Chuck Berry, there was a concert at the Fox Theater in his hometown Saint Louis. With Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock ‘N’ Roll, director Taylor Hackford does a phenomenal job in this movie. Chuck Berry, one of the most complicated and conflicted figures in the history of rock and pop music is rich territory and Hackford managed to catch Berry in all of his many guises – charming, professional, intelligent, thoughtful, bitter, petulant, unprofessional, difficult, and combative. What really marks this movie as a superior documentary is Hackford refusal to judge Berry to focus on just documenting the man and...
On October, 18th 1986, on the sixtieth birthday of Chuck Berry, there was a concert at the Fox Theater in his hometown Saint Louis. With Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock ‘N’ Roll, director Taylor Hackford does a phenomenal job in this movie. Chuck Berry, one of the most complicated and conflicted figures in the history of rock and pop music is rich territory and Hackford managed to catch Berry in all of his many guises – charming, professional, intelligent, thoughtful, bitter, petulant, unprofessional, difficult, and combative. What really marks this movie as a superior documentary is Hackford refusal to judge Berry to focus on just documenting the man and...
- 3/2/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
While the making of The Rolling Stones' Exile On Main Street (which many consider to be one of their best, if not greatest album) has been chronicled numerous times both in print and film (most recently in Stephen Kijak's documentary "Stones In Exile"), the entire story of those rocky sessions and the background that led to the album has a feature film scope. Certainly, Richard Branson sees things that way as he's throwing his producing powers behind a narrative movie that will bring the tale of Exile On Main Street to the big screen.
Virgin Produced has snapped up the rights to Robert Greenfield’s "Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones" with plans to turn it into a drama about the band. As The Rolling Stones headed into the making of the album, they were a group in disarray. They had recently...
Virgin Produced has snapped up the rights to Robert Greenfield’s "Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones" with plans to turn it into a drama about the band. As The Rolling Stones headed into the making of the album, they were a group in disarray. They had recently...
- 4/22/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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