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Castaway
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Rock and roll guitarist, songwriter and singer best known as a founding member of the Rolling Stones.
On the island
Eight records
We be ours. Chuck Berry, first off a great inspiration to me. And I thought also that I would like to hear something that's not obviously Chuck Berry, to be surprised. And he's always surprised me with this track. It's such a subtle blues, almost Nat King Cole in style, and the brilliant piano of Johnny Johnson.
Next one I'd like to play yeah, yeah, Hank Williams. Uh you win again. Hank Williams was another thing I grew up with. And he is basically the father of modern country music. But there was no pretense about it. When when Hank sang, you know, he was basically like listening to a blues singer. I mean, he was real. And I couldn't imagine living without a bit of hank.
Erin Nerville, one of the best voices in the world. And this is probably one of the best doo-wop songs of all. And as it happens on this version. Erin asked me and I am I'm in there playing a guitar in the back you know I see
Sugar on the floor. Mm. Eda James. First, of a great friend of mine, and that at the same time, I've got to have a diva, a soul diva in in this list somewhere.
Uh I probably the classic uh rhythm and blues s record of all time is produced by Bert Burns, who also uh produced uh Van Morrison, Brown Eyed Girl and uh Great producer and here with Freddie Scott, one of the great soul singers. But I hope you're going to enjoy this one because it's solid RV.
Extra ClassicFavourite
Gregory Isaacs. For many, many years I lived in Jamaica. And I've always thought that Gregory is one of the best songwriters that came out of that island, and a sweet singer. Also there was a sense in the seventies in Jamaica. Which gave me a sort of reminder of the early sixties in England, like something was happening. You know, the the Beatles and and then ourselves, and then the Who, and then there was a new wind blowing. And also it was uh extra classic was a song where um where I met my old lady, so I thought that that was that
Spring (First Movement from The Four Seasons)
I suddenly I go classical at I mean, I was very uh agonizing about this because Mozart is my m my man, you know, basically. But then I found out, uh reading some of Mozart's letters, that uh the only good word he had to say about any other composer in the world was Vivaldi. And then I tried to put this together with being on a desert island. And I'm thinking, a desert island, no seasons. And so when I came down there, I'd plant for the the spring section of Four Seasons from Vivaldi, and I think it was a brilliant composer.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:43Does the rebellion come quite so naturally now? Is the flame still burning?
But it is seen. Flames still. I know, I watch other people rebel now, really.
Presenter asks
2:04Do you think people see you too often as a one-dimensional person?
Yeah. Up in the hand. That's the image. And it's like a ball and chain. But I recognize it. I'm in that sort of jail. But at the same time, I do love old Keith, you know, and I do love the way people cotton onto him and sort of say, go for it. There's one part of me, and a lot of that's in the past. I'm growing up, or rather, evolving.
Presenter asks
12:40Is it true that the riff for Satisfaction came to you in your sleep?
I had no, I thanks God to the um The recently invented cassette player. And I happened to be uh between friends at the time and I was sleeping with the guitar on the bed, you know. And somewhere obviously in the night I got up and laid down the basic framework for satisfaction. … I roll it back and listen back, and there is this very weak, faint idea of satisfaction, you know, the riff, the first verse, and the second. And then forty-five minutes of me snoring.
The keepsakes
The book
James Norman Hall
It's a collection of stories about this guy. Well, he's a sailor, eighteenth century, Portsmouth parbon, yeah. But he's got one leg, and every time he turns up at the table he gives you a different story about how he lost it and they're all totally plausible.
The luxury
I was gonna go for a dog, but they said it can't be alive, right? It can't be alive. So um I've chosen the machete. ... I also happen to know how handy they can be on islands. I could build myself a shelter with that. I could make fire with that, you know.
Presenter asks
17:17How much of a link is there between creativity and drug use?
I think I really should say that there is really no correlation between drugs and music and how you perform it, but this is a lie. Some people can handle things and other people can't. You know, if the drugs become more important than the music, then you've lost the battle. I've never felt that it did anything to my creativity. I mean, it kept me up a lot at nights looking for the stuff, but it was something that I had to stop, you know, because I realized that, you know, there are experiments that go on too long.
Presenter asks
19:22Does the pain of losing your son Tara heal over time?
Such a shock. at the time, especially uh I'm getting a phone call in Paris and this happened in Geneva. And I thought, I'm gonna go mad, you know. Unless I do the show tonight. … I also wanted to shield Marlon from it at that time, for the moment. … You know, I had a feeling that this is a show I must go onstage now and And I'll worry and grieve and think about all this after. After the show, because if I didn't go on the stage, I'd well I'd probably shut myself.
Presenter asks
22:23Why did you decide to get married?
I was in love with the woman. And we'd been together two or three years, and I saw the possibilities of what could happen if we got married, because I knew she she's a mater maternal as well and I thought, oh, if you're gonna have more babies, uh this is the one that I would like you to be the mother, you know, and it turned out to be true. Patricia is a beautiful girl, not just physically but uh Inside she is the warmest hearted woman I know.
“That's the image. And it's like a ball and chain. But I recognize it. I'm in that sort of jail. But at the same time, I do love old Keith, you know, and I do love the way people cotton onto him and sort of say, go for it.”
“Forty-five minutes of me snoring.”
“If the drugs become more important than the music, then you've lost the battle.”
“I thought, I'm gonna go mad, you know. Unless I do the show tonight.”
“Indestructible. Yes, yeah, absolutely.”