Magazine of the Week #37

This week we go back thirty years, to the September 1976 issue of HIT PARADER.

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The cover story, "Black & Blue - Tongue In Cheek", by then-editor LISA ROBINSON, features a typically entertaining Robinson/Jagger interview. They run through the new ROLLING STONES LP "Black and Blue" song by song, and also discuss things like songwriting and Mick's clothes.


















Here they are talking about RONNIE WOOD:

LISA: "He is in fact, then, an official member of the band?"

MICK: "Yeah, he's got 'is badge, and 'is membership card..."

LISA: "Will he perform with Rod this summer?"

MICK: "Well, he better not, as long as he's in our group. 'Course he can't."

MICK: "We did the whole tour with him, and then ROD STEWART announced he was splittin' THE FACES, and then he left. And then Ronnie didn't have another band to go back to, did he? Fortunately, he had a job. Otherwise he would have been on the bloody dole line. Eh?"














Lisa asks about the clothes Mick wore on the '75 tour, and Mick tells her, "I loved those cheesecloth jumpsuits, the red ones..."

Elsewhere in the issue, Robinson also has articles on DAVID BOWIE and AEROSMITH. There are also stories on WINGS, TALKING HEADS, and ROBIN TROWER, and an interview with BOB MARLEY.

And of course there are the lyrics to all the top hits, including Wings' "Silly Love Songs", and The Rolling Stones' "Fool To Cry".

And I couldn't resist including this great VALMOR HAIR STYLES ad, the likes of which would soon inspire the "Some Girls" LP cover....