This week's magazine is cover-dated exactly 17 years ago today. THE ROLLING STONES finally made the cover of TIME Magazine with its September 4, 1989 issue.
In the note "From The Publisher", we learn that the Stones actually did a cover shoot for Time back in 1972, with the same photographer, KEN REGAN. We're told that Regan had posed them "backstage in San Francisco and Los Angeles, but the cover did not appear; it was bumped by one on GEORGE MCGOVERN taking over the Democratic Party".
The cover story gives us the basic rundown on the new album, "Steel Wheels", and the upcoming tour, and it also tells us about all the "old" rockers who are still at it and going strong: THE WHO (with PETE TOWNSHEND's "hearing shredded by more than two decades of high decibels"), BOB DYLAN ("with a splendid new album, Oh Mercy, due out in September"), THE GRATEFUL DEAD ("a whole band of Peter Pans camping out in a hippie never-never land"), PAUL MCCARTNEY (who "issued a sprightly new album, Flowers In The Dirt"), and RINGO STARR (who hit the road "fresh from an alcohol rehab").
The story tells us that "the last time The Stones took an American stage, in 1981, they looked like the supporting cast from a George Romero epic, specters from the boneyard of the pop psyche thirsting for a transfusion of celebrity".
KEITH RICHARDS talks a bit about IAN STEWART's death from a heart attack in 1985: "That really took the glue and the heart out of us all. It has taken us this long to reconcile being able to put the Stones together without him. Nobody knows much about Stu out there, but to the boys in the band, the Stones was his band. He was a real taskmaster, strictly rhythm and blues, jazz. You could see his face when you were writing, and if it sounded like a pop song, you knew he was cursing under his breath. In a way, we're all still working for Stu".
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