Magazine of the Week #52

And so we come to the end of the 2006 edition of "Magazine of the Week" - 52 different magazines featuring one or more members of THE ROLLING STONES on the cover. But don't worry - we're not done with The Stones yet!





Anyway, since we started the year with an issue of CREEM magazine (see here), I thought I'd also end the year with one. This is the December 1978 issue with a KEITH RICHARD (no "S") cover story by ROY CARR, who wrote the classic "The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record".


















Roy and Keith talk about the new "Some Girls" LP. Here are some excerpts:

KEITH: The real difference for us was cutting "Some Girls" without having any other musicians present - any other musicians that we did use were only called in later to contribute specific extras. For a change, this album was purely our own affair.

Sure, we over-dubbed a couple of things later, but the actual record and the overall feel depended entirely on the five of us. And that kinda made us work even harder at it. There was more incentive.

ROY: Does that mean that when you've added BILLY PRESTON and brass to the basic line-up, subconsciously you've unloaded some of the pressures?

KEITH: Yeah. Half of it just could be that, and also someone like Billy Preston is such a genius - so used to working in the studio and so quick with it - that if he's in the studio when you're cutting a track - as opposed to overdubbing his part much later - you find that on the playback you're often following Billy's lead before we, as a band, have had sufficient time to work specific things out for ourselves.


And Roy asks about Keith's recent "cure":

ROY: .....What cure did you undergo?

KEITH: The same one as Eric [Clapton].....

ROY: Acupuncture?

KEITH: Electro-acupuncture.....its so simple its not true. But as to whether or not they'll ever let people know about it is another thing!


ROY: How does it work?

KEITH: What can I tell you about it.....? To begin with, I can't tell you how it works because they don't even know for sure. All they know is that it does work. Its a little metal box with leads that clip on to your ears, and in two or three days.....which is the worst period for kickin' junk.....in those 72 hours it leaves your system.

ROY: Is that all?

KEITH: More or less. Actually, you should be incredibly sick, but for some reason you're not. Why? I dunno, 'cause all it is is a very simple electronic nine-volt battery-run operation.

ROY: So what happens after those crucial 72 hours?

KEITH: Well then, its all up to you.

There's a whole lot of other cool stuff in this issue, too - such as a short article about TAMARA RAND, "psychic to the stars". Apparently, BOB DYLAN "never makes a move without her advice", and "she helped him overcome his fear of death". And Dylan is referred to in the article as an "aging folkster".....! Yes, 28 years ago, he was an "aging folkster"!!!


















The "Confessions of a Film Fox" feature gives us the gossip. We learn that LIZA MINELLI "has resumed her romance with MIKHAIL BARYSHNAKOV while juggling DAVID BOWIE on the side", and "RONNIE WOOD is gung ho on marrying sweetie JO HOWARD, especially since Jo Jo is preggers. Does it matter that Ron has yet to obtain a divorce from wife CHRISSIE, or is he thinking of converting to the Mormon way of life?".


















There's a review of one of NEIL YOUNG's "Rust Never Sleeps" shows, articles on AEROSMITH, TED NUGENT, and CHEAP TRICK, and a "Photo Tribute" for the recently deceased KEITH MOON . Record Reviews include THE RAMONES' "Road To Ruin", LINDA RONSTADT's "Living In The USA", and the four KISS solo albums.




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