What Keith Richards really thinks of Mick Jagger

[That 70s Guy]

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Keith Richards: What I Really Think Of Mick Jagger
mdome / News / 15/10/2010 13:19pm

Keith Richards has revealed the extent of his estrangement from Mick Jagger in his upcoming autobiography, Life. He even calls the Rolling Stones frontman ‘unbearable’.

In the course of the book, Richards admits that he refers to Jagger as ‘Brenda’ or ‘Your Majesty’. He goes on to say:

“I used to love Mick, but I haven’t been to his dressing room in 20 years. Sometimes I think, ‘I miss my friend’. I wonder, ‘Where did he go?’. It was the beginning of the 80s when Mick started to become unbearable.”

 

[ladyislingering]

That's rather sad. I wonder what it is about Mick that makes him so 'unbearable'.

 

[LG]

^^It's perfectly understandable to me, they have been together longer than most marriages 40+ years so it's no wonder Keith has some issues with Mick. I don't really take Keith Richards seriously anymore, when he is playing his guitar on stage with the band then that is the only thing that matters to me. Whatever personal baggage he wants to air now might be calculated to sell his memoirs, if he can stay straight long enough to write them.

 

[Lynch]

I've seen and read a number of times where Keith has shown his displeasure over the "friendship" that him and Mick no longer seem to have, and have also seen him call him the belittling names (yet not vulgar name calling).

IT is what it is. A money making machine that really hasn't put out a great album in many years. But if you like them, who cares. Go see them in concert while you can and enjoy it. They won't be doing this much longer (yeah yeah yeah, I know people were saying that shit 30 years ago)

 

[Lynch]

That's rather sad. I wonder what it is about Mick that makes him so 'unbearable'.

Arrogance, ego, personality (all one in the same depending on the person).

 

[ladyislingering]

Ahhhh yeah. Mick definitely has issues with arrogance. He's an unstoppable, untouchable force of a man. And he knows it.

 

[Death on Credit]

I hate to sound like an apologist for my favorite duo in music history, but the two of them are like brothers, and they squabble accordingly.

Mick's a gigantic ego (which Keith has said is exactly what a frontman needs to be), and Keith is an atypical anti-everything outlaw type, of course they're going to butt heads. At the end of the day, that's part of what drives the Stones.

I read a great article on the subject a couple of weeks ago. I wish that I could find it, as it sheds quite a bit of (admittedly speculative) light on the subject.

 

[AboutAGirl]

Hmm.... if that's the harshest stuff they can pick out from the entire book, that's nothing. I agree with DoC that it's completely natural for two blokes who have been together as long as them to have their ins and outs. I'm sure we could say one or two things that annoy us about any of our closest friends, if we try. *shrug*

 

[That 70s Guy]

Bet it's the same way with Tyler/Perry,Simmons/Stanley.

 

[METALPRIEST]