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Green Lady
'He was terrified’, Booth remembers. 'And so, it has to be said, was I.’ Altamont was not only cultural watershed, but a turning point for the Stones. 'For reasons of self-preservation’, he writes, they would 'turn toward comedy.’ 'Mick has always belittled that idea,’ Booth says now. 'But he’s being disingenuous. Once you’ve been through an experience like that it makes you change your act. When they came back in 1972, Mick was wearing pink, and their whole show was being done for laughs.’

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>>"Booth’s book describes a group at the summit of their creative powers, 'the greatest rock and roll band in the world’, as they had no hesitation in describing themselves,"<<
that rings very false..
I don't think any of the Stones ever said that
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Mr Booth was also interviewed on Front Row on Radio 4 on Wednesday night so it should be up on Listen Again for the next 6 days.

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Mr Booth was also interviewed on Front Row on Radio 4 on Wednesday night so it should be up on Listen Again for the next 6 days.
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Mr Booth was also interviewed on Front Row on Radio 4 on Wednesday night so it should be up on Listen Again for the next 6 days.
[www.bbc.co.uk]
Second programme down the list - will probably not be available outside the UK, so if anyone knows how to record and upload (I don't)...

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Mr Booth was also interviewed on Front Row on Radio 4 on Wednesday night so it should be up on Listen Again for the next 6 days.
[www.bbc.co.uk]
Second programme down the list - will probably not be available outside the UK, so if anyone knows how to record and upload (I don't)...
Here you go:
Stanley Booth.mp3
You can listen to and/or download this.

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Green Lady
'He was terrified’, Booth remembers. 'And so, it has to be said, was I.’ Altamont was not only cultural watershed, but a turning point for the Stones. 'For reasons of self-preservation’, he writes, they would 'turn toward comedy.’ 'Mick has always belittled that idea,’ Booth says now. 'But he’s being disingenuous. Once you’ve been through an experience like that it makes you change your act. When they came back in 1972, Mick was wearing pink, and their whole show was being done for laughs.’
Interesting interview. But Dancing with Mr. D. was in 1973, which wasn't exactly changing the act.
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They did tone down the darkness for a while. It seemed to have sobered Mick up a bit. SFTD wasn't played much (at all?) until 1975. Let's face it, the swirling black undertones of the Stones was reflecting a very real vibe at the time. Although quite good at doing that kind of music, they seemed to have steered away to a more traditional rock and roll with horns on Sticky Finger and Exile. Mick quit being so preciously effeminate as he'd been in his jockey silks on the Altamont stage, pleading impotently; the Satan baiter reduced to the flower power punk whining for the Angels to quit killing people. Just cut it out, you guys. It's not nice.
I remember hearing Dancing With Mr. D. for the first time in '73 and thinking that they were trying to return to their old ways. It seemed kind of forced. (It was much better as a live song). By '75 it was all camp and no bite, and hey, It's Only Rock and Roll. The Messianic Stones were done.
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SFTD wasn't played much (at all?) until 1975.
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rebelrebel
Mr Booth was also interviewed on Front Row on Radio 4 on Wednesday night so it should be up on Listen Again for the next 6 days.
[www.bbc.co.uk]
Second programme down the list - will probably not be available outside the UK, so if anyone knows how to record and upload (I don't)...
Here you go:
Stanley Booth.mp3
You can listen to and/or download this.
Thanks very much Green Lady & Deltics...this will be my Friday afternoon "blow off work" listening. Cheers.

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You're too kind, Green Lady! Thanks so much for sorting out the request while I was away from the site!

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another !!!! .......... how many are there altagether????
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OH thanks for that ... please excuse my ignorant sluttiness
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