Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Musician and artist, best known as the guitarist and songwriter for The Rolling Stones, and also a painter.
On the island
Eight records
The keepsakes
The book
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:54What is it that keeps you experimenting [with so many instruments]?
If you haven't got something to aim for, you're in trouble… Keep the creative spirit going.
Presenter asks
7:15What did your parents tell you about growing up themselves and their upbringing [on the canal boats]?
Well, as you can imagine, it was very hard for them transporting wood… my brothers and I were the first ones to be born on dry land since the 17th century.
Presenter asks
14:15When did you first become aware of music?
Oh, my brothers were, as I said, eight years and ten years older. Ted, the jazz fanatic… Ted played right till the end of his life with a band called Colin Kingwell and Jazz Bandits, and he was also in a band called Temperance Seven.
Presenter asks
28:31What do you remember about the moment when the offer [to join the Rolling Stones] came?
Just for Today: Daily Meditations for Recovering Addicts
(anonymous)
It tells it like it is, and it's very real and it sets you up for the day ahead. In a way it gives you strength, and uh that's what I'm going to need on the Desert Island.
The luxury
A huge wooden chest with paints, canvases, turpentine, palette knives, and other art materials
Well, I want a huge chest. Wooden chest. With all my paints in it and canvases, turps. And pallet knives and batches and glue and...
Yeah, just in the right place at the right time, 'cause I was at a Robert Stigwood party… I was sitting on this sofa between Mick Jagger and Mick Taylor… and Mick Taylor leans over to Jagger and says, 'I'm leaving the band'… And Victor [Mick] looked at me and said, 'Oh my god, what am I going to do? Would you join?' And I said, 'I thought you'd never ask.'
Presenter asks
34:56How do you navigate the complex and occasionally volatile relationship between Mick and Keith?
Uh well, I just don't stand for any messing around keeping this institution going. So if I see a crucial point that is going to be more than destructive, I nip it in the bud because they've known each other since the sand pit anyway.
Presenter asks
40:33Why did it [getting clean from addiction] work in 2010 after all those times when it didn't?
Well, I think a lot of the pressure was like from other people and they were pushing me and it was only when I did it for myself when the penny dropped. And you know, if you don't love yourself, you can't love anyone else.
“I always take pride in helping the main, you know, the head boy, whether it be Rod Stewart or Mick Jagger up the front there. It's nice to make them feel confident by having a powerhouse behind them that's not going to mess up.”
“I was in Montauk prior to the 75 tour rehearsing. Keith and I didn't go to bed. I think we slept one or two nights… and it often turned out that I knew more about the arrangements of the songs than they did… Keith says, 'well, just because I wrote them, it doesn't mean I know them.'”
“I just don't stand for any messing around keeping this institution going. So if I see a crucial point that is going to be more than destructive, uh I nip it in the bud.”
“I am not the leader of this whole thing. I'm not in charge and my willpower will lead me up the garden path. So my willpower's no good, you know. I've just got to hand it over.”
“I'm really blessed with Sally and I'm blessed with Gracie and Alice. They're the most incredible new thing in my life. They're nine now, I can't believe. And now I'm very happy to be rocking coming up to being an octogenarian soon.”