Rolling Stones and Mick Jagger intervieuw Old Grey Whistle Test 1973

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The Rolling Stones and Mick Jagger interview at Old Grey Whistle Test 1973. You don’t see lots of Rolling Stones TV performances from the Goats Head Soup album, but here are The Rolling Stones doing “Silver Train” and “Dancing With Mr. D” on The Old Grey Whistle Test, along with quite a long Mick Jagger interview. Goats Head Soup is the 11th British and 13th American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in August 1973. It featured the song "Angie", which went to No. 1 as a single in the US and top 5 in the UK. The album contained 10 tracks, all written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and achieved number one chart positions in the UK, US and several other World markets. Recording[edit] In November 1972 the band relocated to Kingston, Jamaica's Dynamic Sound Studios. Keith Richards said in 2002: "Jamaica was one of the few places that would let us all in! By that time about the only country that I was allowed to exist in was Switzerland, which was damn boring for me, at least for the first year, because I didn't like to ski... Nine countries kicked me out, thank you very much, so it was a matter of how to keep this thing together..."[1] Of the recording process, Marshall Chess, the president of Rolling Stones Records at the time, said in 2002, "We used to book studios for a month, 24 hours a day, so that the band could keep the same set-up and develop their songs in their free-form way, starting with a few lyrics and rhythms, jamming and rehearsing while we fixed the sound. It amazed me, as an old-time record guy, that the Stones might not have played together for six or eight months, but within an hour of jamming, the synergy that is their strength would come into play and they would lock it together as one..."[1] Jagger said of their approach to recording at the time, "Songwriting and playing is a mood. Like the last album we did (Exile on Main St.) was basically recorded in short concentrated periods. Two weeks here, two weeks there – then another two weeks. And, similarly, all the writing was concentrated so that you get the feel of one particular period of time. Three months later it's all very different and we won't be writing the same kind of material as Goats Head Soup."[2] On the sessions and influence of the island, Richards said, "The album itself didn't take that long, but we recorded an awful lot of tracks. There were not only Jamaicans involved, but also percussion players who came from places like Guyana, a travelling pool of guys who worked in the studios. It was interesting to be playing in this totally different atmosphere. Mikey Chung, the engineer at Dynamic, for example, was a Chinese man — you realise how much Jamaica is a multi-ethnic environment."[1] The first track recorded at Dynamic was "Winter", which Mick Taylor said started with "just Mick (Jagger) strumming on a guitar in the studio, and everything falling together from there."[2] The album's lead single, "Angie", was an unpopular choice as lead single with Atlantic Records which, according to Chess, "wanted another 'Brown Sugar' rather than a ballad."[1] Although the song was rumoured to be about David Bowie's first wife Angela,[3][4][5][6] both Jagger and Richards have consistently denied this.[6] In 1993, Richards, in the liner notes to the compilation album Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones, said that the title was inspired by his baby daughter, Dandelion Angela.[7] However, in his 2010 memoir Life, Richards denied this, saying that he had chosen the name for the song before he knew the sex of his expected baby: "I just went, 'Angie, Angie.' It was not about any particular person; it was a name, like 'ohhh, Diana.' I didn't know Angela was going to be called Angela when I wrote 'Angie'. In those days you didn't know what sex the thing was going to be until it popped out. In fact, Anita named her Dandelion. She was only given the added name Angela because she was born in a Catholic hospital where they insisted that a 'proper' name be added."[8] According to NME, the lyrics written by Jagger were inspired by Jagger's breakup with Marianne Faithfull.[4] Despite its laid-back sound, many of Goats Head Soup's songs have a darker quality to them, such as the opener "Dancing with Mr. D" (D as in Death). An alternate mix version can be heard on bootlegs that features a Taylor guitar solo that was not featured on the album version. Mick Taylor's contribution to the song "Can You Hear the Music" is an harmonized guitar solo with a tone that resembles the one favored by King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp. Also featured is the Top 20 US hit "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)", which criticises the New York police for the accidental shooting of a 10-year-old. This was the last Rolling Stones album produced by Jimmy Miller, who'd worked with the band since 1968's Beggars Banquet sessions. Miller developed a debilitating drug habit from his years spent with the band.