Magazine of the Week #43

"He's a good egg, isn't he?" - Patti Hansen

Trying to get back on track here, here's the "Magazine of the Week" that should have been posted last week.







The October 1983 issue of THE RECORD (published by ROLLING STONE magazine) featured an exclusive KEITH RICHARDS interview for its cover story, "Flowers and Thorns: Reflections of a Rolling Stone" by DAVID McGEE.



Keith talks about the early Stones years, his relationship with MICK JAGGER, songwriting, KEITH MOON, and how MTV doesn't show enough black artists.








Here's a little of what Keith had to say:

On The Beatles: "I think the only reason The Beatles didn't get back together again was the fear of the anticlimax. I have no doubt really that if it was left up to those four guys themselves, they might have just taken a vacation for a year or two then carried on again. Sometimes people take the most drastic steps when they're totally unnecessary. Witness Mick Taylor. Not that he didn't want to play with the Stones, just that he wanted to do other things. But in the Stones there's enough free time to do anything you want to do. In actual fact, Mick Taylor did virtually nothing. And the same situation really applies to the Beatles. There was no need for them to break up. They could've taken a couple of years off, resolved their problems and still carried on. It would have been an intriguing thing, and probably better for music all around, if they'd stuck it out."


Also in this issue, articles on EURYTHMICS, JAMES BROWN, EDDY GRANT, CARLENE CARTER, and a look at the recording of NEIL YOUNG's "Everybody's Rockin'" LP.







And in their list of the "Top 100 Albums", we find THE POLICE's "Synchronicity" at #1, followed by MICHAEL JACKSON's "Thriller", and the "Flashdance" soundtrack.

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