Magazine of the Week #51

Here we are with another great LISA ROBINSON-era issue of HIT PARADER, this one cover-dated December 1977.








For the cover story, Lisa has an exclusive MICK JAGGER interview. Here are some excerpts.

They talk about the new live LP, "Love You Live":

Lisa: Why did you do a live album?

Mick: Because we had to.....we promised we would. And here it is! It was part of our contract.

Lisa: You've put so much work into this album, haven't you?

Mick: Ummm, yeah.....enough. A lot.

Lisa: You get so involved with all of it, and it seems to take so long.

Mick: Well, Keith Harwood died, so it took longer. And it got slower, and slower.....and more boring.....

Lisa: You have to listen to so many tapes of all those concerts??

Mick: We had a lot of tapes, but we wanted to put a live album out ages ago and couldn't, because Allen Klein wouldn't let us. Or whoever it was.....but we had a lot of tapes. We listened to a lot of them.....

Lisa: What about all the overdubs that really are done on live albums that people don't know about?

Mick: Well, the overdubs are less than we did on the last one.....The overdubbing that's done under the Geneva Convention of Overdubbing Live Albums of 1967.....


















And they talk a bit about Keith's current problems:

Lisa: What about the band? And what was this stuff that you said about getting another guitarist if Keith's problems weren't worked out?

Mick: I didn't say that. What I said was, the guy asked me if Keith got a life sentence, would you go on the road with anybody else, and I said yes of course I would.

Lisa: You would?

Mick: Well if Keith gets a LIFE SENTENCE.....I mean if he got a life sentence.....

Lisa: Well, as long as you didn't get a life sentence, there would be a Rolling Stones.....?

Mick: Well, its a hypothetical situation.....but if Keith got a LIFE SENTENCE, and I could never see him again except through PRISON BARS, I guess I would have to play with someone else, what else could I do? I could stop playing, but it seems a silly thing to do, I don't want to stop playing. But I don't think Keith will end up behind bars, so its a hypothetical question. But that's what the cat said to me, if he gets a life sentence would you go on.....so that's what I said in REPLY.

Lisa also has an interview with LOU REED, and Lou has this to say about his "Metal Machine Music" LP:

Lou: .....its like ANDY's Campbell's Soup Can - the idea was enough. "Metal Machine Music" is going for $30.00 each now and it really did what it was supposed to do. It drew the line with RCA. In other words, me - the poet of gold, was being flushed down the toilet.


















There's an article on LED ZEPPELIN (also by Robinson), and stuff on BLONDIE, BRYAN FERRY, and CARLY SIMON.

In "Rock&Roll Hotline", we learn that HEATHER MCCARTNEY is "a big punk rock fan", and that while CBS Records has not (as yet) signed WINGS, they will release a SUZY AND THE REDSTRIPES (Linda McCartney, of course) LP on Epic Records. Still waiting for that one!

Click on images to enlarge.