Upset Mick had to get some Satisfaction
Stones lead singer is happy that bandmate Richards apologised
Move over Storm Emma! The frosty relationship between legendary Rolling Stones’ rockers Mick Jagger and Keith
Richards has taken another bashing. As the rock icons prepare to embark on the second part of the Stones – No Filter tour which hits Croke Park on May 17, the bitter spat between two of its founding members shows no signs of melting anytime soon.
Relations between The Glimmer Twins took a nasty turn in the 1980s, but things came to a head when Richards’ autobiography, Life, published in October 2010. And earlier this week Richards was again forced to issue an apology to frontman Jagger, 74, after he labelled him a “randy old b ***** d” and said the father-of-eight should get a vasectomy.
Guitarist Keith, 74, tweeted an apology after making comments to the Wall Street Journal Magazine, that great-grandfather Mick, who welcomed his eighth child in December 2016, “couldn’t be a father at that age’ and expressed worry for his “poor kids.”
The Brown Sugar hitmaker wrote: “I deeply regret the comments I made about Mick in the WSJ which were completely out of line. I have of course apologised to him in person.”
It is the second apology in a number of years to Jagger who admitted he wasn’t prepared go on the road in 2013 with his bandmates until Richards apologised for unflattering jibes in his memoir.
Keith had written Life, that sold over one million copies, that Jagger’s 2001 album, Goddess In The Doorway, was ‘Dogs**t In The Doorway’, and portrayed Jagger as a man who had changed for the worse over the years.
‘It was the start of the
Eighties,’
Richards wrote, when
Mick became unbearable.
He became
Brenda, or
Her Majesty…
‘We’d be talking about
“that b***h
Brenda” with him in the room, and he wouldn’t know.’
Speaking to Rolling Stone magazine ahead of their 50th anniversary tour, Mick said: “(An apology was) a prerequisite, you might say.
“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.” While Keith conceded he had to apologise, he claims his bandmate didn’t read the book properly. He explained: ‘I told Mick, “You should have seen what I left out.” I did also say to Mick, “I know exactly what you did. You got the book, you went straight to the index – Jagger, M – and that’s what you read. You didn’t take it in context. You didn’t.”’
The Gimme Shelter superstar said he was happy to apologise, but perhaps it wasn’t as genuine as Mick would have liked.
The guitarist added: “I’d say anything to get the band together, you know? I’d lie to my mother.”
The Rolling Stones will play Ireland for the first time since 2007 when they take to the stage at Croke Park this May to kick off their tour – some 42 years after the band made their first ever visit to Dublin.
The British rockers went on to conquer the world and didn’t return to Ireland to play for another 17 years when they appeared in front of 50,000 people at Slane Castle in 1982 - at the time, the biggest music event ever held in the country. The Stones would be back at Slane 25 years later for a massive show in 2007.
ltickets for the Dublin gig will go on sale on Friday March 23 available at Ticketmaster nationwide.