Magazine of the Week #28

This week's magazine is the July 1974 issue of CREEM, featuring a very nice cover photo of the "old" ROLLING STONES ("The Way They Were"), and an "Exclusive MICK JAGGER Interview And Poster".

This issue has the first of a two-part Jagger interview with ROY CARR - "from first lay to Bottom Lining back in the USA; the Stone truth all the way". In this part, they run through the basic Stones history up to BRIAN JONES' leaving the band. Here's one out-of-context quote from Mick: "I never liked "Revolver" very much. I don't like the Beatles".

Elsewhere in the issue, ROBERT CHRISTGAU gives BIG STAR's "Radio City" a "B plus", and BARBRA STREISAND's "The Way We Were" a "B minus".

In "Rock 'n' Roll News" we read this: "Stones bassist Bill Wyman has taken it upon himself to catalogue as extensive a history of his band as he's able. If you have any tapes of early Stones, regardless of their sound quality, he'd like to know about them. (Later years are well-represented with bootlegs etc. so the earlier the better.) You can write to Bill c/o CREEM."

In "Confessions of a Film Fox" we learn that "Bianca Jagger was dressed to the nines for the London Charity Premier of "Paper Moon". Mrs. J was stunning in scarlet, velvet and furs. You know right out of the pages of "Vogue". Sorry we can't say the same about Mick. He was dressed early country with a greatcoat, pullover, a scarf knotted at the neck, and an open fly!"

There's a book review of GUY PEELAERT's now-classic "Rock Dreams". As we see from one of the pictures from the book, KEITH RICHARDS was doing the pirate thing long before JOHNNY DEPP called! (Is "Rock Dreams" currently in print? I'd love to get a copy!)

Also, reviews of LPs by ROXY MUSIC and NEW YORK DOLLS (reviewed by LESTER BANGS), CAT STEVENS (reviewed by ROBERT CHRISTGAU), and THE VELVET UNDERGROUND's "Live 1969" (reviewed by PATTI SMITH).