1984
How
the years rush on by
(Birthdays,
kids and suicides)
1984
How
the years rush on by
(Birthdays,
kids and suicides)
January 1, 1984: Alexis Korner dies in London, England.
January 5, 1984: Mick Jagger is interviewed in New York
City for U.S. TV's
Friday
Night Videos, at Marylou's Seafood
Restaurant.
| Mick Jagger
(January 1984): The Rolling Stones' longevity and
accomplishments
Keith and I have been friends for a LONG time. Yes we were friends since we were 6 years old which, I'm not going to tell you, is a LONG time ago, more than 20 years... I've been friends with CHARLIE for over 20 years. It's difficult to analyze WHY, you know, why us? You don't know. And, as someone said to me, those friendships lasted over the other ones, you know, with women and all that. So the band's been going on longer than any marriage or involvement I've been in... I'm not proud of achievements. Pride can come just before a fall, you know, and all that. I'm not particularly proud of - some of the things the Stones have done have been great, some have been rubbish. That's the way life goes. That's the lot - I chose it and I could have sort of got out of it at any time. But I'm still in there. And I wouldn't be there if I didn't... enjoy it. |
| Mick Jagger
(January 1984): Motivation
It's very hard to talk about motivation and all that in rock and roll. It's not like acting where it's something in yourself that's just like, That's what motivating me in this play, in this film... In our kind of rock and roll, you gotta go at home and sit down with a guitar, and write a song. And it's gotta be... reasonably good. It DOES require quite a lot of self-discipline sometimes to do that, 'cause you don't wanna do it. But when it eventually comes down to it, you sit down for a few hours and you write a couple of interesting pieces and you think, Hmmm... that's pretty good. (Laughs) And then you start to, the juices start to, you know, flow again. That's how (motivation) happens - I think FROM the songs themselves. I don't think it's a I can't wait to get back on the stage in front of 100 000 people - that's what I want to do in life. That doesn't feel for me, that doesn't - you know, I don't miss it that badly... So the motivation for me comes from the songs rather than thinking about touring. |
January 16-25, 1984: The
Rolling
Stones gather in Mexico City, where they film videoclips for
She Was
Hot
and Too Much Blood.
January 26, 1984: Along with Mick Jagger, Keith and Patti
Richards return
to New York City, after several months in
Mexico. They check into a hotel room in Manhattan for a
month.
January 27, 1984: Ron Wood and his companion Jo Howard
start a month-long
holiday in Cancun, Mexico.
February 17, 1984: Keith Richards is interviewed for U.S.
TV'S Friday
Night Videos at JP's bar in New York City.
February 21, 1984: Bill Wyman presents a posthumous award
to Alexis Korner
in London at the British Rock Awards.
He first meets 13-year-old Mandy Smith.
February 23, 1984: Keith Richards joins Buster Poindexter
(David Johansen,
ex-New York Doll) onstage at Tramp's in
New York City.
February 25, 1984: Keith Richards leaves New York City for
Paris, to check
out a studio for the Rolling Stones'
next recording sessions, then London.
March 2, 1984: Mick Jagger attends the natural childbirth
of his first
daughter with Jerry Hall, Elizabeth, in New
York City.
March 6, 1984: Mick Jagger attends a party in New York
City with Yoko Ono
and Robert DeNiro.
March 8, 1984: Keith and Patti Richards have dinner with
Charlie &
Shirley Watts in London, England. Bill Wyman
secretly starts dating minor Mandy Smith for two and a
half years.
March 9, 1984: Keith and Patti Richards have dinner with
Bill Wyman and
Mandy Smith in London.
March 15, 1984: Keith and
Patti Richards arrive back in New York City.
March 31-April 15, 1984: Mick Jagger starts studio work
(demo sessions) on his first solo
album, at Compass Point
Studios in Nassau in The Bahamas.
| Mick Jagger
(1984): The band's reaction to a solo album
As soon as I was planning on doing it (I told the band)... (A)nd I said, Well do you mind if I take this time out?... I think that the Stones didn't want it to be a shit record: Mick, don't make a shit record, because that's going to reflect on us. And I said, No, if it's a shit record - if I think it's shit, and CBS thinks it's shit - it won't go out! I don't think they were furious about it, because we talked about it. I talked about it with Keith, and he said, Hey, if you want to do it, go ahead. Don't forget you're taking a chance. I said, Well, yeah. You know, you've got to take chances in life. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. |
| Mick Jagger
(1989): Looking back
I
was feeling very kind of stultified within the
Rolling Stones and I felt
I had to go and work with some other people to get
a bit revitalized. And
I think actually it worked, though it created a
tremendous ruckus within
the Rolling Stones, which was totally unnecessary
really. And I think that
everyone made much too much of a fuss about
it. And I think everyone
should have been a bit more indulgent. That's
why
|
March 31, 1984: Keith Richard and Ron Wood attend a
wedding of a friend
in Long Island, New York, where they
jam.
April 3, 1984: Bob Dylan and Ron Wood visit Keith Richards
at his hotel
in New York City.
April 10, 1984: Keith and Patti Richards fly off to their
home in Jamaica
for a few months.
April 11, 1984: Ron Wood flies to San Francisco to attend
his first art
workshop.
April 16, 1984: Mick Jagger appears in court in New York
City on behalf
of the Rolling Stones, to sue former
business manager Allen Klein and ABKCO, and meets with
Michael Jackson
for their upcoming collaboration.
April 17, 1984: Mick Jagger flies off for a holiday in
Mustique.
May 6-10, 1984: Mick Jagger records State of Shock with
The Jacksons
at a studio in New York City.
May 11, 1984: Mick Jagger flies back to Mustique.
Mid-May 1984: Mick Jagger
resumes work on his solo album at Compass
Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas.
May 23, 1984: Ron Wood attends a party for Miles Davis in
New York City.
June 1, 1984: Ron Wood celebrates his birthday with a
party at the club
The Limelight in New York City.
June 5, 1984: Charlie Watts and Ian Stewart, with Rocket
88, perform at
a tribute concert for Alexis Korner in
Nottingham, England.
June 14, 1984: The Rolling Stones are the first rock band
inducted into
Madison Square Garden's hall of fame in
New York City.
June 17, 1984: Mick Jagger arrives in London, England, in
part to meet
with videoclip director Julien Temple for the
Rolling Stones' upcoming video package. He and Bill Wyman
shoot scenes
to piece together the videoclips.
June 19, 1984: Ron Wood and Jo Howard fly off to Jamaica
to spend a few
days with Keith and Patti Richards.
June 24, 1984: Mick Jagger attends the christening of his
daughter Elizabeth
in London. Charlie and Shirley Watts
attend.
June 25, 1984: Keith Richards flies in to London, England,
from Jamaica.
June 26, 1984: The
Rolling Stones,
minus Ron Wood, meet in London, England, to discuss their
future
plans.
June 27-29, 1984: Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts attend
cricket matches
in England.
June 28, 1984: The Jacksons' State of Shock
single, featuring Mick
Jagger, is released.
July 1, 1984: Keith Richards returns to New York City from
London.
July
2, 1984: The Rolling Stones' greatest hits album, Rewind
(1971-1984), is
released.
July 4, 1984: Mick Jagger and Bill Wyman attend a party
thrown by Michael
Caine in London.
July 5, 1984: Keith Richards and Ron Wood record a session
with guitarist
Charlie Sexton in New York City.
July 7, 1984: Mick Jagger attends Bob Dylan's concert in
Wembley, London.
July 11, 1984: Keith Richards flies back to Jamaica again.
Boy George visits.
Mid-July 1984: Ron Wood and family vacation in Montauk,
Long Island.
Mid-to-late July 1984: Ron Wood records with Bob Dylan in
New York City
for the latter's Empire Burlesque album.
July 17, 1984: Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall attend a royal
charity event
in London.
Late July 1984: Mick Jagger holds overdubbing sessions at
AIR Studios in
London, England, for his first solo album.
July 28, 1984: Paul McCartney visits Mick Jagger and Pete
Townshend in
the studio.
| Mick Jagger
(1984): A Stone, a Who, a Beatle
I was doing some overdubs with Peter (Townshend) in London, and Paul was working on (Give My Regards to) Broad Street. Actually, it was the disco thing (No More Lonely Nights) he was working on. (He came in with a bottle of cognac). It was my BIRTHDAY, that's why! It was really nice. Paul has always been very polite and nice to me. He said, I've never done a disco mix before, and I kind of very patronizingly said, Oh well, WOW! (laughs) I mean it's TRUE, I was doing them in 1978: Miss You with Bob Clearmountain. |
July 29, 1984: Keith Richards returns to New York City.
August 9, 1984: Keith Richards and son Marlon watch Bruce
Springsteen and
the E-Street Band perform at the
Meadowlands Arena in New Jersey, and talk with the band
backstage.
August 14, 1984: Mick Jagger returns to New York City from
London.
Mid-August 1984: Ron Wood heads to Jamaica for a holiday.
August 19, 1984: Mick Jagger also checks out Bruce
Springsteen's show at
the Meadowlands, with daughter Jade.
| Mick Jagger
(1984): The Boss
(I stayed) through the bear and everything. I liked it. I thought the band sounded wonderful; I thought he sounded wonderfully well. It was better than when I saw him the last time around. I thought the drums sounded fantastic. I took the kids also. To tell you the truth, the kids didn't like it very much. |
August 22, 1984: Keith Richards and family attend a Tina
Turner concert
at The Ritz in New York City.
August 27, 1984: In New York City, Mick Jagger and Keith
Richards videotape
a presentation for a later ceremony in
honor of promoter Bill Graham.
August 31, 1984: Keith Richards returns to Jamaica for the
third time this
year, joining father Bert, Ron Wood and
Bobby Keys. They jam with local musicians.
Early-to-mid September 1984: Mick Jagger spends time in
London, England.
September 14, 1984: In New York City, Ron Wood appears as
a presenter on
the MTV Video Music Awards. Mick
Jagger appears on tape.
Mid-September-November 1984: Mick Jagger is back in New
York, resuming recording
and mixing work on his solo
album at The Power Station.
September 19, 1984: Keith Richards returns to New York
City from Jamaica.
Mick Jagger attends a party for his
co-producer Nile Rodgers.
September 22, 1984: The Richards visit the Woods in New
York City for a
children's birthday party.
October 1, 1984: Charlie and Shirley Watts arrive in New
York City.
October 2, 1984: The
Rolling Stones,
minus Bill Wyman, hold a meeting in New York City to discuss
recording
plans for their next album.
October 3, 1984: Keith Richards, Ron Wood and Charlie
Watts have dinner
together in New York City.
October 18, 1984: Keith and Patti Richards fly off to
Italy for a month-long
trip of Europe.
Early November 1984: Mick
Jagger,
Keith Richards and Charlie Watts hold another band meeting
in
Amsterdam,
a drunken brawl included.
| Keith Richards
(1988), Mick Jagger & Charlie Watts: Wanna get
into a fight
Keith:
I
don't think (Mick) thinks he needs anybody's help.
But I wonder if he's
realized that he's way out on a limb. I feel like
I'm his only friend.
I know the way he lives. I know everybody else who
knows him. I know that
Charlie Watts dished him out a great fucking right
hook and that was Charlie
Watts saying, You and I have had it. It
was 1984 at a Stones' meeting
and... Charlie punched him into a plate full
Mick:
(The
fight with Charlie) never actually happened like
that. He pushed
me, but I don't think he actually punched me.
There's quite a lot of difference,
in my book. Didn't happen. No,
not at all. Keith invented that story. Now,
Charlie was annoyed. And he was very
drunk, as was Keith. And he was a bit wound up.
But there were so many people there, so many
people between me and Charlie, and it never came
to blows... A table full of smoked salmon! That's
a good one. How about we go one better? I turned
into a smoked salmon and dived out the
window. Yeah, that's what really happened. Charlie: I had a row with Mick, about attitude I suppose. With a lot of these things, when you're in a band it's a bit like having a row in the family. You know, it's over and you very rarely ever mention it again. That's what these things are like. They're like brother things... I was drunk (when that incident happened). I was really pissed off. It's not something I'm proud of... I'm closer to Mick than I've ever been. I think Jerry's done that. The children and that. He's grown up a lot. |
November 1984: Bill Wyman, joined by Charlie Watts and
other musicians,
record an album's worth of rock & roll
oldies in Cookham, England (Willie and the Poor Boys).
November 1984: Back from Amsterdam, Mick Jagger finishes
work on his solo
album in New York City.
November 14, 1984: The
Rolling
Stones' videoclip package, Video Rewind, is
released.
November 16, 1984: Mick Jagger attends a concert by
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
at The Ritz in New York City.
November 19, 1984: Keith and Patti Richards return to New
York from Europe.
November 21, 1984: Mick Jagger has dinner with CBS Records
executives in
New York.
Late November-December 27, 1984: Mick Jagger spends five
weeks in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, shooting videoclips for
She's The Boss.
November 28, 1984: Ron Wood launches his art exhibition in
Dallas, Texas.
December 4, 1984: After a fund raising dinner for Unicef
in New York City,
Ron Wood joins up with Keith Richards.
December 9, 1984: Charlie Watts and Ian Stewart perform at
a benefit concert
for Ethiopia in Edinburgh, Scotland.
December 16, 1984: Ron Wood and Jo Howard fly to London,
England, to prepare
their wedding.
Late December 1984: Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall holiday in
Mustique. The
Richards holiday with Patti's family and
Marlon in Staten Island.