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RAW, RAUNCHY AND MIDDLE-AGED; Rolling Stone Keith Richards at 45
1989
Overview
''That hit [KEITH RICHARDS] very hard,'' she says. ''It dawned on him right then and there that the Stones had become Mick's band, and over a period of time it became more apparent that Mick didn't want to change that.'' [Jane Rose] is quick to add that [Mick Jagger] stuck by Richards during his six years of drug addiction. ''Mick was the one person who never stopped believing in Keith. He visited regularly and went out of his way to make sure Keith got everything he needed to get well,'' she says. ''Only I don't think Mick intended for him to get this well.'' Richards was off heroin by the time the Stones were ready to tour in 1978. ''Suddenly, I was ready to resume my responsibilities,'' he says. ''I showed up saying, 'O.K., I'm here to take the weight off your shoulders.' I thought I was doing Mick a favor, but he saw it as a power grab. In his mind, I'd given him up, and why should I think I could just waltz back in and pick up where I'd left off? He resented it. He'd gotten used to wielding the scepter. And when I returned, I don't think either of us understood the ramifications of it.'' Richards says that record-industry strategists were shocked when word got around that ''Talk Is Cheap'' might be ''the best non-Rolling Stones Rolling Stones album'' ever made. Calls interrupted the band's tour rehearsals with disturbing regularity, many of them from Jagger's business manager in London. ''Her majesty'' - the reference is to Jagger - ''decided it was time the Stones got back together to make a new album,'' Richards recalls. ''And I thought, 'Nice timing, Mick - just as I'm coming into my own, you turn up again.' '' ''It was inevitable,'' Richards says of their reunion. ''I told Mick that even if we both said 'I never want to see you again' we'd still have to deal with each other for the rest of our lives.'' He ticks off a list of their corporate co-ventures: reissues of Rolling Stones albums; merchandising; a vast publishing business, a portfolio of investments. ''There are too many businesses that demand our attention, too many people who depend on the salaries we pay them,'' he says. ''It's like a marriage with no divorce.''
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New York Times Company
