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Old Gods Almost Dead

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by Stephen Davis


  Thanks to the great crew at Broadway Books and Random House: Kim Cacho, Maria Carella, Rebecca Cole, Charlie Conrad, Heather Flaherty, Rebecca Holland, Gerald Howard, Mark Hurst, Lawrence Krauser, Marni Lustberg, and Shauna Toh, who cut some sharp riffs of her own.

  Thanks to Susan Vermazen for her great eye.

  Thanks to American Airlines, especially John Spano.

  Special thanks to David Vigliano for being so cool.

  “It took the people from England to hip my people— my white people—to what they had in their own backyard.”

  Muddy Waters

  Index

  “Acid in the Grass”

  “Act Together”

  Aerosmith

  Aftermath

  “Ain’t That a Lot of Love”

  “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg”

  “All About You”

  “All Along the Watchtower”

  “All Down the Line”

  “All Sold Out”

  “All the Way Down”

  “All You Need is Love”

  “Alladin Story”

  “Almost Hear You Sigh”

  “Already Over Me”

  Altamont

  “Always Suffering”

  Andrews, Pat

  “Angie”

  Animals

  “Anybody Seen My Baby”

  “Apartment #9”

  “Around and Around”

  “As Tears Go By”

  Atlantic Records

  “Baby Break It Down”

  “Back in the U.S.A.”

  “Back to Zero”

  “Backstreet Girl”

  “Bad Boy”

  Bailey, David

  “Ballad of a Thin Man”

  Band, The

  Bardot, Brigitte

  Barger, Sonny

  “Be My Baby”

  “Beast of Burden”

  Beatles. See also specific song titles

  “Beautiful Delilah”

  Beck, Jeff

  “Before They Make Me Run”

  Beggar’s Banquet

  Belushi, John

  Bergman, Jo

  Berry, Chuck

  Best of Muddy Waters, The

  Between the Buttons

  “Big Boss Man”

  Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)

  “Bitch”

  Black and Blue

  “Black and Blue Jam”

  “Black Limousine”

  Blind Faith

  “Blinded by Love”

  “Blinded by Rainbows”

  “Blood Red Wine”

  Bloomfield, Mike

  “Blue Suede Shoes”

  Blue, Sugar

  “Blue Turns to Gray”

  “Blues Before Sunrise”

  Blues Blues Blues

  “Blues for Jeffrey”

  Blues from the Gutter

  Blues Incorporated

  Bono

  Booker T and the MGs

  Bowie, David

  “Brand New Car”

  Branson, Richard

  “Break the Spell”

  Breton, Michelle

  Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka

  Bridges to Babylon

  “Bright Lights, Big City”

  Bringing It All Back Home

  Broken Dreams

  Brown, James

  Brown, Ollie

  “Brown Sugar”

  Browne, Tara

  Bruni, Carla

  Buell, Bebe

  Burroughs, William

  Bush Doctor

  Butterfield, Paul

  “Bye Bye Johnny”

  “Call Girl Blues”

  Cammell, Donald; blue movie of Jagger

  “Can I Get a Witness”

  “Can’t Be Seen With You”

  “Can’t Buy Me Love”

  “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking?”

  “Can You Hear the Music”

  Capote, Truman

  Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band

  “Carol”

  “Casino Boogie”

  CBS Records

  Chapman, Tony

  “Cherry Oh Baby”

  Chess brothers; record company (Chess Records); studios

  Chess, Marshall

  “Child of the Moon”

  Chkiantz, George

  Chris Barber Jazz Band

  “Citadel,” 219”

  Clapton, Eric

  “Claudine”

  Clayton, Merry

  Cliff, Jimmy

  Clockwork Orange, A (Burgess)

  “Close Together”

  “Cocaine Blues”

  “Cocksucker Blues”

  Cocksucker Blues (film)

  “Come On”

  “Come On in My Kitchen”

  “Coming Down Again”

  “Complicated”

  “Confessin’ the Blues”

  “Congratulations”

  “Connection”

  “Continental Drift”

  Cooder, Ry

  “Cook Cook Blues”

  Cooke, Sam

  “Cool Calm Collected”

  Cooper, Michael

  “Cops and Robbers”

  “Corinna”

  “County Honk”

  Covay, Don

  “Crackin’ Up”

  Crawdaddy Club

  “Crazy Mama”

  Cream

  Crosby, Stills and Nash

  Crow, Sheryl

  “Cry to Me”

  Cutler, Sam

  “Dance”

  “Dance Little Sister”

  “Dancing in the Street”

  “Dancing With Mr. D”

  “Dandelion”

  Davies, Cyril

  “Day in the Life, A”

  “Dead Flowers”

  “Dear Doctor”

  Decca

  December’s Children

  Degree of Murder, A (film)

  De Lane Lea Studio

  Deneuve, Catherine

  De Rola, Stash

  “Devil Is My Name”

  Diddley, Bo

  “Diddley Daddy”

  Diggers

  Dine, Jim

  Dirty Mac

  “Dirty Work”

  Dirty Work

  Dixon, Deb.

  Dixon, Willie

  “Dolly Dagger”

  “Doncha Bother Me”

  Donovan

  “Don’t Do That”

  “Don’t Lie to Me”

  “Don’t Look Back”

  “Don’t Stay Out All Night”

  Doors

  “Down at the Bottom”

  “Down Home Girl ”

  “Down in the Hole ”

  “Down the Road Apiece ”

  “Downtown Susie ”

  Dunbar, John

  Dust Brothers

  “Dust My Broom ”

  Dylan, Bob

  Dzidzornu, Rocky “Dijon ”

  Eagles

  Eastman, Linda

  Easton, Eric; cheating of Stones

  Eel Pie Island

  Elektra Studio

  EMI

  “Emotional Rescue ”

  Emotional Rescue

  “Empty Heart ”

  Epstein, Brian,

  Ertegun, Ahmet

  “Eve of Destruction ”

  Everly Brothers

  “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love ”

  “Everybody Pays Their Dues ”

  “Everything’s Turning to Gold ”

  Exile on Main Street

  “Factory Girl ”

  Faithfull, Marianne; break with Jagger; heroin addiction; pregnancy and miscarriage; suicide attempt

  “Family ”

  “Fancyman Blues ”

  “Fannie Mae ”

  “Faraway Eyes ”

  “Feel Kind of Lonesome”

  “Feel On Baby”

  “Fight”

  “Figi Jim”


  “Fingerprint File”

  Fischer, Lisa

  Fisher, Mark

  Five by Five (EP)

  Flashpoint

  Fleetwood Mac

  Fleetwood, Mick

  “Flight 505”

  “Flip the Switch”

  Flowers

  Flying Burrito Bros.

  “Fool to Cry”

  “For Your Precious Love”

  “Fortune Teller”

  “Four and In”

  Fowler, Bernard

  Fox, James

  Frampton, Peter

  Frank, Robert

  Franklin, Aretha

  Fraser, Robert

  “From Me to You”

  Gaye, Marvin

  Get Back (film)0

  “Get Off of My Cloud”

  Get Yer Ya-Yas Out

  Gibbs, Christopher

  “Gimme Shelter”

  Gimme Shelter (film)

  Goat’s Head Soup

  Godard, Jean–Luc

  “Goin’ Home”

  “Going to A Go Go”

  “Gold Painted Nails”

  Gomelsky, Giorgio

  “Gomper”

  “Good Golly Miss Molly”

  “Good Time Woman”

  “Good Times, Bad Times”

  Got Live If You Want It

  “Got My Mojo Working”

  “Gotta Get Away”

  Graham, Bill

  Grateful Dead

  Great White Wonder (The Basement Tapes)

  “Grown Up All Wrong ”

  “Gunface ”

  Gysin, Brion,

  “Had It With You ”

  Hail Hail Rock ’n’ Roll,

  “Hamburger to Go ”

  Hammond, Jr., John

  “Hand of Fate ”

  “Hang Fire ”

  “Happy ”

  “Happy Home ”

  Hard Day’s Night, A

  “Harder They Come, The ”

  “Harlem Shuffle,”

  Harrison, George

  Harwood, Keith,

  “Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? ”

  Hawks

  “Heart of Stone ”

  “Heartbreaker ”

  “Hearts for Sale ”

  “Heaven ”

  Hefner, Hugh

  Hendrix, Jimi

  Hell’s Angels

  “Her Blues ”

  Herman’s Hermits

  “Hey Crawdaddy ”

  “Hey Jude ”

  “Hey Negrita ”

  “Hide Your Love ”

  “High and Dry ”

  “High Heel Sneakers ”

  “High Wire ”

  “Highway Child ”

  “Hip Shake ”

  “Hitch Hike ”

  “Hold Back ”

  “Hold On to Your Hat ”

  Hollies

  Holly, Buddy

  “Honest I Do ”

  “Honey What’s Wrong ”

  “Honky Tonk Women ”

  “Hoochie Coochie Man ”

  Hooker, John Lee, 26, 511, 516

  Hopkins, Nicky

  “Hot Stuff ”

  “How Could I Stop ”

  “How Many More Years ”

  Howlin’ Wolf (Chester Burnett)

  “Hundred Years Ago, A ”

  Hunt, Marsha; child, Karis

  “Hush, Hush ”

  “I Ain’t Got You ”

  “I Am Waiting ”

  “I Be’s Troubled ”

  “I Can Feel the Fire ”

  “I Can See It ”

  “I Can’t Be Satisfied ”

  “I Can’t Help It ”

  “I Don’t Know Why ”

  “I Feel Like Going Home ”

  “I Go Wild ”

  “I Got the Blues ”

  “I Just Want to Make Love to You ”

  “I Wanna Be Your Lover ”

  “I Wanna Be Your Man ”

  “I Wanna Hold You ”

  “I Want to Be Loved ”

  “I Want to Love You ”

  IBC Studios

  “If You Can’t Rock Me ”

  “If You Let Me ”

  “If You Need Me ”

  “If You Really Want to Be My Friend”

  “I’m All Right ”

  “I’m a Country Boy ”

  “I’m Free ”

  “I’m Gonna Drive ”

  “I’m a King Bee ”

  “I’m a Man,” xxiii

  “I’m Moving On ”

  “I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man ”

  “I’m Yours, She’s Mine ”

  Immediate Records

  Impact Sound

  “In Another Land ”

  “Indian Girl ”

  Island Stuido, London

  “It Must Be Hell,” 471

  “It’s All Over Now ”

  “It’s Not Easy ”

  “It’s Only Rock and Roll ”

  It’s Only Rock and Roll

  “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long ”

  I’ve Got My Own Album to Do

  Jackson, Michael

  Jacobs, Little Walter

  Jagger, Bianca Perez Moreno de Macias

  Jagger, Jade; children

  Jagger, Jerry Hall; appearances with Stones; children with Mick; divorce; divorce settlement; kicks Mick out; marriage; prenuptial

  Jagger, Mick (Michael Philip):

  APPEARANCE

  BACKGROUND, CHILDHOOD, FAMILY: appearances on Seeing Sport; birth; childhood; daughter, Elizabeth Scarlett; daughter, Georgia May; daughter, Jade, see Jagger, Jade; daughter, Karis; education; father and mother; son, Gabriel; son, James LeRoy; 25th birthday; 50th birthday

  CHARACTER AND PERSONALITY; ambition; egotism/rock shaman; jealousy; sexuality and promiscuity of; social climbing

  DRUG AND ALCOHOL USE; acid party; bust, arrest, and sentence; bust, second; cocaine

  MUSIC AND CAREER: Aftermath, opinion of; autobiography; Between the Buttons, opinion of; as blues harmonica stylist; Blues Incorporated; campiness; comment on America after 1964 tour; comment on Herman’s Hermits; debut of Rollin’ Stones and; dominates Rolling Stones; drops out of London School of Economics; early performance style; farewell to England party, 1971; fight with George Jones’ guitar player; film, Enigma; film, Fitzcarraldo; film, Freejack; film, Ned Kelly; film, Performance; film company; first guitar; first public performance; first solo recording; “Get Off of My Cloud,” opinion of; “Glimmer Twins,”; injuries by fans; joins Rollin’ Stones; leaves Rolling Stones; Let It Bleed, opinion on; libel case; Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys; Live Aid concert, 1985; management and control of Stones; Mick Jagger Centre; moves into 102 Edith Grove; name change to Mick; peace demonstrations and; performance style; politics; R&B and; relationship with Beatles; “Satisfaction” and; solo album and career; songwriting; Stones success, comment on; tour Japan, solo; on touring changes; Their Satanic Majesties, opinion of; vocalizations

  MUSICAL INFLUENCES: Brown, James; Dylan, Bob; Holly, Buddy; Presley, Elvis; R&B; rock and roll; Vincent, Gene

  RELATIONSHIPS AND LOVERS: Arnold, Pat; Buell, Bebe; Bianca, see Jagger, Bianca; Bruni, Carla; D’Arbanville, Patti; Faithfull, Marianne, see Faithfull, Marianne; Hall, Jerry, see Jagger, Jerry Hall; Hunt, Marsha; Jones, Brian and; Liebovitz, Annie, 362; Linnear, Claudia; Miss Pamela; Morad, Luciana; Ormsby-Gore, Jane; Pallenberg, Anita; Perrine, Valerie; Richards, Keith; Shrimpton, Chrissie, see Shrimpton, Chrissie; Thurman, Uma; Wilson, Devon; Wood, Ronnie, and

  RESIDENCES: Cheyne Walk, Chelsea; Chester Square; Downe House; Hampstead; Manhattan, W. 72nd St.; Marble Arch flat; Mapesbury Road; Marylebone Road; Mustique; Stargroves

  “Jah Is Not Dead ”

  Jajouka musicians

  James, Elmore

  Jamming with Edward

  Jefferson Airplane

  Jethro Tull

  “Jigsaw Puzzle ”

  Joh
n, Elton

  John Wesley Harding

  Johns, Andy

  Johns, Glyn

  Johnson, Johnnie

  Johnson, Robert

  Jones, Brian

  APPEARANCE

  BACKGROUND, CHILDHOOD, FAMILY

  CHARACTER AND PERSONALITY; abuse of women; ambition; charisma; dishonesty; paranoia; sexuality and promiscuity; suicide attempt

  DEATH; funeral; premonitions of

  DRUG AND ALCOHOL USE; arrest and trial, first; arrests and police harassment, subsequent; hospitalizations; LSD

  MUSIC AND CAREER: abandoned by Stones in Morocco; arranging; beginning of the end with Stones; break with Keith Richard over Anita; comment on hostility toward Stones; comment on his playing; contracts and; Ceylon; debut of Rollin’ Stones and; early players for Rollin’ Stones and; electric guitar; as Elmo Lewis, with Korner’s band; fans and; fired by Stones; first guitar; founding member, Rolling Stones; France and; get–out schemes,; harmonica playing; Hawaiian guitar; injuries, on and off stage; last American tour; last appearance with the Stones; last contributions to Rolling Stones; last performance; last time all five Stones together; as leader and promoter, Rollin’ Stones,; Mellotron playing; missing gigs, outsider status, and decline of; Monterey Pop Festival; Morocco and Jajouka musicians; mountain dulcimer; movie soundtrack; at 102 Edith Grove; playing brilliance; restoration to band, 1965; saxophone playing; secret deal with Easton/Oldham; sitar Vox guitar; “weaving” with Richard

  MUSICAL INFLUENCES

  RELATIONSHIPS AND LOVERS: Andrews, Pat and child, Julian; Keith, Linda; Lawrence, Linda and child; Molloy, Dawn and child; Nico; Pallenberg, Anita; Potier, Suki; unnamed girl and child; Valerie and first child; Wohlin, Anna; Zou Zou

  RESIDENCES: Chelsea house; Cotchford Farm (House at Pooh Corner); Courtfield Road; Royal Avenue House

  Jones, Darryl

  Jones, Peter

  Joplin, Janis

  Jordan, Dave

  Jordon, Steve

  “Jump on Top of Me ”

  “Jumpin’ Jack Flash ”

  “Just My Imagination ”

 

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