According to The Rolling Stones

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• Keith: It was an expanding thing. I think the meeting between Mick and me was like what happens when you throw a pebble into a pond and the water just ripples outwards. It still is a fucking big pond. It's like, "Look at all that water and that's just the top"... Keith: When it comes to music, if we work on it together, there's something that just happens. I don't know how or why: I leave that to the mysteries of alchemy. Keith: England is so small. Maybe it's that very compactness about the country that made things take off - and you can't discount World War II as a factor for the generation that I belong to. When I didn't want to go to school I hid in a bomb site, and it was no different in Liverpool than it was in London, whereas in America the difference between Boston and LA is like... (查看原文)

  Sabrina 2014-01-09 20:55:14

• Keith: One of the things that impressed us about Andrew Oldham when he approached us at the Crawdaddy was that he'd worked for the Beatles and Brian Epstein - it was just that everybody kind of knew. And the minute he started talking, we thought, "This is a very sharp boy". We didn't think we had anything to present, but Andrew made us think about the Rolling Stones as a viable unit and how to sell it. What I thought I had learned at art school was how to play guitar, but when I think about it, I realise that I had also learned the subtle art of advertising. Some of the teachers worked in agencies and came to the school one day a week; we'd think, "Wow, he works at a real advertising agency - he can probably spell Madison Avenue". Andrew pulled together the innate talents within the ba... (查看原文)

  Sabrina 2014-01-10 21:39:44