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Mick and Keith: A Symphony of Rivalry and Harmony [Highlight From Episode 345] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's a highlight from a recent episode of Booked on Rock.
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  Speaker 1: Our guest is Kathy McCabe, author of the new book
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  Speaker 1: Rock Gods, Icons of Rock Music. I mentioned up top
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  Speaker 1: that there are five duos covered in the book. The
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  Speaker 1: first of the five would be Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is interesting. Had you thought about picking one
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  Speaker 1: over the other and what led to deciding to go
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  Speaker 1: with a partnership scenario, specifically here with Jagger Richards.
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  Speaker 2: Because that partnership is the Rolling Stones. I mean, if
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  Speaker 2: they'd not met on that train station, you know, having
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  Speaker 2: gone to primary school, Lost Tuch, there were neighbors lost
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  Speaker 2: Tich mixed heading to the London School of Economics, Keith
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  Speaker 2: is heading to Art school, and they just happened to
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  Speaker 2: meet on this train station at that that minute, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and Keith's holding the records under his arm, which you
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  Speaker 2: know got I was always it me Sorry, now complain
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  Speaker 2: the confusing I think.
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  Speaker 1: It had the Blues records.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was Meek had the Blues records, and Keith
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  Speaker 2: was was fascinated by the fact that he had these
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  Speaker 2: these particular records. The other thing that really made me
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  Speaker 2: want to keep them together as a partnership is because
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  Speaker 2: it's one of the most fascinating dynamics in terms of
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  Speaker 2: a partnership in contemporary rock history. I mean, they're such
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  Speaker 2: different people, and we've come to see caricatures of their character,
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  Speaker 2: you know, sort of evolve over the decades. It was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Mick was the serious businessman. He bristles about
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  Speaker 2: that kind of simplistic caricature of him. Keith was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the rock and roll outlaw. He descended far more into
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  Speaker 2: two addiction than Meg ever did, and battled you know,
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  Speaker 2: heroin for years is you know, got arrested all over
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  Speaker 2: the place on several occasions, and finally you know, got
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  Speaker 2: his act together. But the fractiousness of their partnership, the
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  Speaker 2: fact that you know, once Mix started going solo and
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  Speaker 2: Keith found that such to be such an affront, even
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  Speaker 2: though we gave him free reign to be in charge
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  Speaker 2: of the Rolling Stones for the first time, is kind
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  Speaker 2: of you know, the leader. Because Mick was off doing theirs,
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  Speaker 2: he felt it was a real betrayal of the band.
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  Speaker 2: He was furious about it. So that kind of dynamic
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  Speaker 2: of how they fight like brothers. But also, you know,
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  Speaker 2: particularly now, I think even though we've just heard, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they've kind of put their twenty twenty six plans on hold.
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  Speaker 2: And hope, like hell that that's just because they're tired
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  Speaker 2: and not for any other reason. But the fact that
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  Speaker 2: they've sort of come full circle now to kind of
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  Speaker 2: recognizing how important that brotherly bond was, it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: beautiful to me. Even though I love all the one liners.
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  Speaker 1: There have been many. Yeah, I saw the I saw
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  Speaker 1: the story that you you just mentioned Keith Richards. I
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  Speaker 1: guess he's the one who's saying I can't go out
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  Speaker 1: on a full tour anymore. I don't think. Wow, Keith
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  Speaker 1: is finally he's showing a moment that he's actually human.
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  Speaker 1: There's a point. Yeah, it's been you know, it's been
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  Speaker 1: an amazing run of album tours, you know, massive tours,
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  Speaker 1: and you wonder how he's been able to do it.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm with you. I hope everything is Hopefully
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  Speaker 1: it's just just as simple as that, and they just
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  Speaker 1: got to slow down the touring schedule.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see, yeah, which is a bummer for us because
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  Speaker 2: I was pretty hopeful that Australia was going to be
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  Speaker 2: back on the Root for next year.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought Hackney Diamonds was great.
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  Speaker 2: Surprised, such a brilliant album, and I think it was brilliant,
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  Speaker 2: and I think everybody fell madly in love with that
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  Speaker 2: record because it distilled the essence of what the Stones
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  Speaker 2: have always been like, the actual you know, combination of
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  Speaker 2: sounds and their influences, and you could hear them in
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  Speaker 2: the studio on that record. You can hear them being
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  Speaker 2: loose and tight and kind of you know, beating the
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  Speaker 2: pieces of the puzzle together in each of those songs. Really,
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  Speaker 2: for that reason, you know, people just were like, yes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this is To be making that kind of
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  Speaker 2: music in the twenty twenties is astonishing