1982
Still I play the fool and strut
1982
Still I play the fool and strut
January 1982: Bill Wyman
holds solo recordings sessions in England and production
work for the Stray Cats.
Early February 1982: Mick
Jagger and Keith Richards join director Hal Ashby in Los
Angeles to start
work on
the concert film Let's Spend the Night Together.
February 1982: Keith Richards
spends time with comedian John Belushi in Los Angeles a
month before the latter's
death.
February-March 1982: Bill
Wyman promotes the release of his next solo album in
Australia, Indonesia and Japan.
February 18-21, 1982: Ron
Wood joins Bobby Womack, then Chuck Berry, onstage at The
Ritz in New York City.
Late February 1982: Mick
Jagger and Keith Richards work on the soundtrack for the
film Let's Spend the
Night Together at the Power Station in New York City.
March-April 1982: Mick
Jagger and Keith Richards, joined by Charlie Watts and Ron
Wood, mix tracks
and
record overdubs for the live album Still Life at The
Power Station in New York City.
March 18, 1982: Keith
Richards and Ron Wood record with Jimmy Cliff in New York
City. Later Keith Richards and
Patti
Hansen attend Ron Wood's party for his girlfriend Jo at
Studio 54.
March 25-April 8, 1982: Bill
Wyman visits Japan.
March 26, 1982: Bill Wyman's
third solo album, Bill Wyman, is released.
April 1982: Bill Wyman moves
back to England after eleven years of living in France.
April 17, 1982: Ron Wood
joins Toots and the Maytals onstage at The Ritz in New
York City.
April 22, 1982: Stevie Ray
Vaughan auditions for Rolling Stones Records in New York
City, with Mick Jagger and
Ron
Wood in attendance.
April 26, 1982: Keith
Richards joins Etta James onstage at The Other End in New
York City, performing Rock Me
Baby.
April 28-30, 1982: Mick
Jagger holds press conferences in London, Vienna, Munich and
Paris announcing
the
Rolling Stones' 1982 European Tour.
| Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
(1982): Touring Europe
Mick: We don't make any money is one of the reasons (we don't tour Europe frequently). And life is only so long... And - we just figured we should really go because if it's gonna be (laughs) another 7 years, we may NEVER go again. I mean, that's a real - you've really got to face up to that (laughs). I mean, we'll never go again, that'll be the last time definitely we go to Europe, unless we go the year after. Not in this band, in this place, I mean... it's impossible. Keith: I need this to keep me young. When we started this band we thought we had about two or three years. Now it's habit and it's absolutely vital that it works on the road. We need constant contact with a living audience. We're so excited about the prospect of doing Britain again after so long. Wherever we might make our home now, Britain is where our roots are. |
May 7-24, 1982: The
Rolling Stones hold tour rehearsals at Shepperton Studios in
London, England.
May 1982: Keith Richards
meets his father again, Bert Richards, for the first time
in 20 years.
| Ron Wood (1982): Touring Europe
after America
I was talking to Mick the other night about the European tour we were about to embark on. He was saying, Try to think about some numbers that England would like. You know, let's say England, or as Angie was the biggest ever for the Stones in Europe, we mustn't forget to put it in and all that kind of thing. 'Cause Europe they want to see... - it's like, All right then, you've left us out. Or you WERE going to leave us out. Or now you're here, FINALLY, after doing the States and given them all your finest kind of thing. So what we do is make it an extension of what we did in 1981. But even better. |
May 26-28, 1982: The
Rolling Stones perform warm-up, theatre concerts in
Aberdeen, Glasgow and
Edinburgh in Scotland. Keyboardist Chuck Leavell makes his
public debut with the band.
May 30, 1982: The Rolling
Stones perform a final warm-up concert in London, England,
at the 100 Club.
June 1, 1982: The
Rolling Stones' 4th live album, Still Life, is
released.
| Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
(1982): Still Life
Mick: Live albums are funny things. I mean, it's not the sort of thing I rush home to play but this one sounds pretty good. It's... CONCISE. You know, it's like a telescopic version of the show. Keith: All this live stuff I want to come out as soon as it's ready, you know. Otherwise it becomes history. I would've liked the live album to come out in January but it's impossible, you know - I was dead on me feet. It sounds pretty good to me and I don't generally like live albums. I've stuck with this one so - it's good stuff. |
June 2-5, 1982: The
Rolling Stones officially kick off their 1982 Tattoo You
European Tour, their first
tour of
the continent in six years, with three concerts at Feyenoord
Stadium in Rotterdam in the
Netherlands.
June 3, 1982: Mick Jagger
joins George Thorogood onstage at a club in The Hague,
Netherlands.
June 6-11, 1982: The
Rolling Stones perform in West Germany, with two stadium
concerts in Hannover
(their
first ever), an arena show in West Berlin and two stadium
shows in Munich.
June 13-16, 1982: The
Rolling Stones swing through France, perform two stadium
concerts in Paris and
one in
Lyon.
June 19-20, 1982: The
Rolling Stones perform two concerts at Ullevi Stadium in
Gothenburg, Sweden.
June 23, 1982: The
Rolling Stones start the British leg of their European Tour
with a concert at St. James
Park in
Newcastle.
June 25-26, 1982: The
Rolling Stones perform their first ever concerts at Wembley
Stadium in London,
England. Ringo Starr is among those attending on the first
night.
June 27, 1982: The
Rolling Stones perform at Ashton Gate Park in Bristol,
England.
June 29-July 5, 1982: The
Rolling Stones swing back through West Germany and Austria,
performing
three
concerts at the Festhalle in Frankfurt, a concert at Prater
Stadium in Vienna and two shows at
Müngersdorfer Stadium in Cologne.
July 2, 1982: Keith Richards,
Ron Wood and Chuck Leavell sing a privately taped song in
the bathroom of a
restaurant in Vienna, where the band is holding a birthday
party for Jerry Hall.
July 3, 1982: Mick Jagger
appears onstage at the Moulin Rouge nightclub in Vienna.
July 7-9, 1982: The
Rolling Stones perform two concerts at Vincente Calderon
Stadium in Madrid, Spain,
their
first ever in the city.
July 11-12, 1982: The
Rolling Stones perform their first concerts in Italy since
1970, and first ever in
Turin,
at Stadio Comunale. July 12 marks the 20th anniversary of
the Rolling Stones' first ever
concert, at the Marquee Club in London.
July 15-17, 1982: The
Rolling Stones perform in Basel, Switzerland and Naples,
Italy, both for the first
time.
July 20, 1982: The
Rolling Stones return to France to perform at the Parc des
Sports de l'Ouest in Nice.
July 24, 1982: The
Rolling Stones perform in Ireland for the first time since
1965, performing at Slane
Castle
in Slane.
July 25, 1982: On the eve
of Mick Jagger's 39th birthday, the Rolling Stones end their
1982 European
Tour
with a concert at Roundhay Park in Leeds, England, their
last ever concert with Ian Stewart
and
their last paid public performance for the next seven years.
July 26, 1982: Mick Jagger
celebrates his birthday in London, along with Ron Wood,
Ian Stewart and others.
July 27, 1982: Keith
Richards, Ron Wood and Bobby Keys jam with the J. Geils
Band at the Carlton Hotel in London,
England.
Late July 1982: Mick Jagger
is in Paris, France, doing business work for the eventual
release of the Rolling Stones'
concert film.
August 1982: The Rolling
Stones Past and Present, a 12-hour documentary,
starts airing on U.S. radio.
August 18-20, 1982: Keith
Richards watches the Reggae Sunsplash festival in Jamaica.
September 1982: Keith
Richards returns to New York after his stay in Jamaica.
September 25, 1982: Mick
Jagger watches The Who and The Clash perform at JFK
Stadium in Philadelphia, with his
daughter Jade, one year after the Rolling Stones performed
there.
October-November 1982: Jerry
Hall and Mick Jagger hold a widely publicized separation,
with Jerry Hall seeing
multi-millionaire horse-breeder Robert Sangster and Mick
Jagger publicly dating many (mostly very young)
women.
| Jerry Hall (1985): Mick on tour
Mick becomes a totally different person on tour. Instead of the nice, gentle, gentlemanly guy I live with, he becomes this incredible egomaniac. If you took it literally, you'd think: God, this guy is rude. On tour he never opens the door for anyone. That's unheard of. He goes toward a door and you follow three steps behind. And if the door slams in your face, that's too bad. |
November 10, 1982: Mick
Jagger is in the audience in New York City watching the
taping of Late Night with David
Letterman.
| Mick Jagger (1983): Writing the
Undercover album
When we started off writing (the Undercover album), Keith and I got in a bit early and we rented an 8-track demo studio here in Paris. And I said, Well, have you got some, Keith? and we took turns at playing the drums and - well, we played guitar and we got to know the material each of us had written in the past few months, you know. So when we actually got the band into the studio, we had sort of a hard-core bunch of songs, which is ACTUALLY most of the songs on the album. |
December 1-19, 1982: The
Rolling Stones start official recording sessions for the
album Undercover at
EMI-Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris,
France.
| Mick Jagger (1984): "She Was
Hot"
She Was Hot is a bit of an on-the-road song. You know, Detroit was smoky grey, nothing like the good old days or something. It's a bit of a road song, which I hate - road songs - normally. But, I mean, that's your experience so you draw on it. |
Mid-December 1982: The
Rolling Stones hold a band meeting at the Ritz Hotel in
Paris with Prince
Rupert
Loewenstein, to discuss future possible album and tour
plans.
December 18, 1982: The band
celebrates Keith Richards' 39th birthday at a restaurant
in St Denis, France.
Late December 1982: Mick
Jagger and Jerry Hall holiday in Mustique, while Charlie
and Bill return to England.
Keith
Richards and Patti Hansen return to New York, and are
planning to wed.