Why Mick Jagger still can't forgive Keith Richards for that (very personal) little insult in his biography | Daily Mail Online Why Mick Jagger still can't forgive Keith Richards for that (very personal) little insult in his biography comments One clear afternoon last December, in a tall, red-brick building off the King’s Road in London, four old rockers sat aimlessly in a recording studio. They had already spent two days waiting and wondering when — and if — their lead singer and most famous member was going to appear. Keith Richards set up the sessions, ostensibly to provide some material for a TV documentary about the Rolling Stones to celebrate their 50th anniversary, which falls next month. All over now: Keith Richards, left, and Mick Jagger appear to still have a long way to go to patch up their differences But in fact, the sessions were an attempt to reconnect with his old friend Mick Jagger. Keith — who lives mostly in Connecticut these days — turned up on day one, as did lugubrious drummer Charlie Watts and guitarist Ronnie Wood, who is keen to reunite the Stones. Rather surprisingly Bill Wyman, looking as gloomy ever with a chestnut mullet, was also back on bass guitar.

It has been 20 years since he left the band amid the Mandy Smith scandal after having seduced the 13-year-old schoolgirl who went on to become his wife, but Keith said that he had missed Wyman, with whom he has had scant contact in the intervening years, and was pleased to see him. However, Mick Jagger kept them all hanging before he deigned to show up — on day three. Revealed: Keith Richards, pictured with his biography, which didn't help his relationship with Mick Jagger And when he did, he made no commitment to the idea of repeating the experience. I’m told he was polite and professional — but returned to his home in Chelsea the minute the cameras stopped rolling. In an interview this week in Rolling Stone magazine, Keith tried to put the best possible gloss on matters. He said: ‘On the third day, Mick turned up, which was a real joy. Because I set it up really as a magnet, you know.’ He previously admitted that he had no idea whether Mick would feel able to come. In November last year he said: ‘My basic thing is that Ronnie, Charlie and I are going to work together. Just go in and see if we can warm our chops up.

And of course everyone else is welcome. [Guitarist] Mick Taylor’s welcome. I don’t see why everybody who was a Stone shouldn’t be involved.’ However, I can reveal that despite this faux friendliness put on for a media blitz this week, and claims that a money-spinning world tour are on hold because of fears about Keith’s health, relations between he and Jagger remain positively arctic — despite many efforts to patch them up. Keith almost died in 2006 after falling out of a tree while on holiday in Fiji and suffering a brain haemorrhage and there were suggestions this week that his health is too poor to withstand the rigours of touring. But several sources insist the real problem is the animosity between him and Mick — and that it could finish the Stones for good.

One source says: ‘They are trying very hard to put across the image that they are all pals and that it is forgotten, but it is still a completely dysfunctional and broken relationship.’ Still talking: Mick Jagger and guitarist Ron Wood on stage during the Rolling Stones' 1975 Tour of the Americas The band was forced to admit this week that they will not be ‘ready’ for a tour for their 50th anniversary this year. Keith, however, says that he has hopes that they might manage it in 2013. There are tentative plans to get together again in New York to work on new material in the coming months, but nobody is sure whether Mick will actually show up. In truth, Mick and Keith, both 68, can only just bear to share a room. They don’t speak — and have barely done so in 20 years. Keith pulled out of one of their last public appearances — in Cannes in 2010 to promote a Stones documentary — as he felt the movie was more about Mick than him. A source says: ‘They are incredibly petty with each other, and gripe over small things continuously. Keith gets really annoyed that Mick always goes on stage last for instance.

It winds him up terribly, and has done for years.’ By way of revenge, Keith calls Mick ‘Brenda’ (borrowing Private Eye’s nickname for the Queen), ‘Miss Jagger,’ and ‘Her Ladyship’ — and for years has mocked his distinctive dancing and prancing. Fallout: It seems these days it's a challenge just to get Jagger and Richards to be in the same room I’m told that, in recent months, their respective lawyers and managers have had many meetings, costing thousands of pounds, hoping to put a tour together. But so far the Rolling Stones have only managed to agree on the release of an authorised book, a greatest hits boxed set of CDs and the television documentary. Keith, however, wants to regroup for a final tour to go out with a bang. One pal says: ‘There may be a day or two after coming off a two-year tour when Keith doesn’t want to play, but aside from that he wakes up every day and wants to get on stage.’ Ronnie, meanwhile, could do with the money after last year’s expensive divorce from his wife, Jo. Charlie Watts has said he will tour. But Mick has yet to say yes.

Affair: Richards admitted he had an affair with Jagger's girlfriend at the time Marianne Faithfull, pictured here The current elephant in the room, if that is not too unfortunate a phrase in the circumstances, is what Keith said about Mick’s membrum virile in 2010. He accused his old friend of having a ‘tiny todger’ — and went on to claim he had enjoyed an affair with Mick’s girlfriend Marianne Faithfull in 1960, delightedly exclaiming at his good fortune in burying his head in her ‘beautiful jugs’ during an afternoon sex session. The claims, made in his autobiography, Life, were astonishing. It wasn’t so much the liaison with Marianne — at around this time there was rather a sexual merry-go-round when it came to women. (For instance rock chick Anita Pallenberg was the girlfriend of late Rolling Stones member Brian Jones, then took up with Keith, then had a fling with Mick — before going back to Keith again.) What really amazed everyone was the casual way Keith chose to spread such a damaging and deeply personal slur about Mick, who has long gloried in his reputation as the ultimate womaniser.

One source intimately connected with the band tells me that the relationship between the pair is the fundamental reason why the Stones have been dormant since the end of their last tour, A Bigger Bang, in 2007. The source says: ‘Mick and Keith have not got over ‘willygate’. Mick feels that Keith violated their friendship completely, damaged his reputation and that of the Rolling Stones. In public at least, Keith has been prevailed upon to apologise. He said of Jagger this week: ‘He and I have had conversations over the past year of a kind we have not had for an extremely long time, and that has been incredibly important to me. The original Rolling Stones: Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts ‘As far as the book goes, it was my story and it was very raw, as I meant it to be. But I know that some parts of it, and some of the publicity, really offended Mick and I regret that.’ Will that be enough to allow them to put the enmity behind them? Many Stones-watchers doubt that it will. Mick’s carefully crafted response to Keith’s grovel was measured, but had a certain patronising chilliness.

He replied: ‘Looking back at any career you are bound to recall both the highs and the lows. In the Eighties, Keith and I were not communicating very well. I got very involved with the business side of the Stones, mainly because I felt no one else was interested. But it’s plain now from the book that Keith felt excluded, which is a pity. Time, I reckon, to move on.’ Notice he felt unable to address the offence which Keith caused with his book, such is his revulsion for the row. Instead, he forgives him for the rows which they had 30 years ago. Here's hoping: Ronnie Wood hopes it can all come good for a Rolling Stones reunion The two rockers — who met at primary school in Dartford in 1951 — have weathered drugs busts, scandals and band members coming and going, but their relationship has always been tense. Listen to Gimme Shelter, which Keith begun writing while waiting for faithless Anita to return to his bed from Mick’s, and the pain is evident. In the Seventies, obvious cracks began to appear. Keith felt Mick had sold out on rock music. Mick, felt that Keith — deeply addicted to heroin — was out of control.

By the Eighties, Jagger was detached enough to make a solo album, She’s The Boss. Keith was furious and even tried to get The Who’s Roger Daltrey to replace Mick in the band’s line-up. The recording of the band’s album Dirty Work, in Paris in 1985, was fraught: studio time was organised so that Mick and Keith wouldn’t have to be in the same room at the same time. Ronnie Wood effected a truce in 1987. But Keith just couldn’t resist winding up his old friend in the years that followed. He said Mick was vain and belonged in panto. He criticised his womanising. Last year, he dismissed Mick’s solo album Goddess In The Doorway as ‘Dogs**t In The Doorway’. It has always been one dig after another. They seem to enjoy being best of enemies. They are, of course, very different people. As a friend puts it: ‘Mick has lots of interests, but Keith just has his guitar. Keith will carry on playing whether it’s with the Stones or with someone else.’ ‘He is quite erratic these days, which may be a result of his fall,’ the source says.

‘His standard response to most conversational gambits is to growl: “It’s a chemical thing, man.” He likes to play up his druggie image, which you don’t get with Mick.’ The Stones source adds that Keith broke the Stones’ ‘sacred agreement’ that you can bicker all you like, but you don’t air your dirty laundry in public. Top trio: Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards - can a tour ever be a possibility? By contrast, Mick has always turned down offers to write his autobiography, claiming he couldn’t remember enough about the Stones’ early days. Actually, it is said he simply prefers not to reveal too much about them — a little mystery is always lucrative. So where does all this leave them? Ronnie Wood hopes it will all come good. Charlie Watts has long been the peacemaker in the group but now refuses to intervene in the bickering. Keith? Well, he knows he crossed the line, but seems to believe he will be forgiven. But one of Mick’s pals insists a tour will ‘never’ happen as, apology or not, Mick still cannot stand Keith.

He says the likely outcome is a one-off filmed concert, which will be sold across the world. Others believe they will eventually do a tour — for the money if nothing else. Someone who has spoken to the band in the past few weeks says: ‘Mick likes to make money, and Keith likes to play. And they do both believe they are the greatest band on earth and should go out with a bang.’ As Keith said in 2010: ‘We’ve had our beefs but, hey, who hasn’t?’ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards can’t stand each other | New York Post Mick Jagger and Keith Richards can’t stand each other Modal Trigger Rolling Stones bandmates Mick Jagger (left) and Keith Richards keep playing together only for the money, a new book claims. AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File Mick Jagger and Keith Richards can’t stand each other and keep playing together only because the Rolling Stones bring in the kind of money neither could earn alone, a shocking new Stones memoir reveals.

The Glimmer Twins turned gloomy toward each other in the 1980s, writes rock journalist Rich Cohen in “ The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones ,” his freewheeling memoir of life on the road with the band. But what really incensed Jagger was Richards’ now-legendary autobiography, “ Life ,” published in October 2010. Jagger, Cohen reveals, first found out about the incendiary material in the book when he drove up to Richards’ Connecticut home to read a galley of it before publication. The frontman was stunned by what he read: Richards revealed that the band’s nickname for Jagger was “Her Majesty” or whiny, needy “Brenda.” Bandmates, Richards said, would often refer in code to “that bitch Brenda” while the unsuspecting Jagger was right there in the room.

The guitarist wrote that the singer “started to become unbearable” in the 1980s, and even mocked Jagger’s “tiny todger.” And Richards was harsh on the quality of Jagger’s solo work, nicknaming the latter’s 2003 album “Goddess in the Doorway” “Dogs - - t in the Doorway.” The album sold just 954 copies on the day of its release. Moreover, Richards went “f - - king berserk” at news that Jagger had accepted a knighthood in 2003, painfully recalling how cops acting on a tip-off had arrested both men for using drugs at a party at Richards’ country house in England in 1967. Jagger was joining “the same establishment that did their very best to throw us in jail and kill us,” Richards said at the time. Keith Richards holds his autobiography “Life” at the New York Public Library in 2010.WireImage Jagger, Cohen says, asked Richards to cut some of the most embarrassing material from “Life,” but Richards refused — and the juicy memoir went on to sell more than a million copies.

Jagger told Cohen his thoughts on the book, which the writer paraphrases as follows: “Imagine that everything Keith says is true. Now imagine those things being said by a business partner . . . Now imagine that partner is drug addicted. Sometimes, you have a big meeting and he doesn’t show . . . Or maybe he gets busted on the eve of a world tour. What, in such a case, would you make of his complaints?” Dismissing the “most salacious material” with “a cold, cynical laugh,” Jagger went on to say he doubted that Richards had even read the book, reports Cohen, who was so close to the band when reporting on them for Rolling Stone that the magazine’s publisher Jann Wenner dubbed him “the sixth Stone.” The band had been heading for a breakup as far back as the 1980s.

Back then, says Cohen (who, along with Jagger, Terence Winter and Martin Scorsese, created the HBO series “Vinyl ”), Jagger wanted to go solo, to “be famous while being alone in the way of Michael Jackson or David Bowie.” But Jagger, with his 1985 album “She’s the Boss” and 1987 followup “Primitive Cool,” couldn’t get his solo career working. Richards, in a huff, went out and did a record of his own, forming the new band the X-Pensive Winos. “Keith’s record [“Talk Is Cheap”] sounded like the Stones,” Cohen writes. “It made you reevaluate everything and wonder just who’d been responsible for what. In other words, Jagger’s dash for freedom backfired.” The pair decided that neither could rake in big money alone, so reluctantly they got back together and continued to tour, but “when you see Mick and Keith onstage, leaning together like Butch and Sundance, you’re seeing actors,” Cohen writes. “Their friendship was rock ‘n’ roll . . .

What happens when that friendship dies?” These days the bandleaders are like an emotionally estranged mom and dad who stick together only because of the kids. Only in this case, the “kids” are money: On just one tour, in 2005-2007, the gang grossed $558 million. Share this: Keith Richards mocks size of Mick Jagger's penis - Mirror Online Celebs Keith Richards mocks size of Mick Jagger's penis One of the longest-running partnerships in rock'n'roll took a turn for the worse yesterday as Keith Richards launched a stinging attack on Mick Jagger - hitting him where it really hurts. Share Get celebs updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email One of the longest-running partnerships in rock'n'roll took a turn for the worse yesterday as Keith Richards launched a stinging attack on Mick Jagger - hitting him where it really hurts. The Rolling Stones guitarist mocks the size of the singer's manhood, a subject over which the pair fell out in 2005. And he claims he hasn't stepped into Mick's dressing room for 20 years.

In a new autobiography, Life, Keith writes: "Marianne Faithfull had no fun with his tiny todger. "I know he's got an enormous pair of balls - but it doesn't quite fill the gap." Hellraiser Keith, 66, was forced to apologise five years ago after making similar comments in an interview. But he appears determined to wind up Mick again, revealing his nickname for him is "Your Majesty" or "Brenda". He also says he refers to him as "that bitch Brenda" in front of him. Keith says his songwriting partner "started to become unbearable" in the early 80s, adding: "I think Mick thinks I belong to him but I haven't been to his dressing room in 20 years. "Sometimes I think, 'I miss my friend'. I wonder, 'Where did he go'?" Keith also claims Mick was jealous of him having other male friends. "Maybe his exclusivity is bound up with his own siege mentality. Or maybe he thinks he's trying to protect me - 'What does that a**hole want from Keith'? But honestly, I can't put my finger on it.

"I love the man dearly - I'm still his mate - but he makes it very difficult to be his friend." In the book, for which he was paid an advance of £4.8million, Keith debunks some of the Stones myths. He denies that when police raided Redlands, his Sussex estate, in 1967, they found Marianne Faithfull using a Mars bar as a sex aid. He had simply left it on a coffee table as a snack for when he got the munchies. In one moving passage, Keith reveals he wrote Gimme Shelter while gazing out of a window on a stormy evening waiting for his girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg - who he assumed was with Mick - to come home. She never did. Keith also slammed Mick's fourth solo album, 2001's Goddess in the Doorway, referring to it as Dogs**t on the Doorstep. "It's like Mein Kampf," he says. "Everyone had it but no one read it." But Keith also warmly recalls a letter he sent his aunt in 1961, which says: "This morning on Dartford station a guy I knew at primary school came up to me. He's got every record Chuck Berry ever made.

He is called Mick Jagger." Of his hard partying, he says he gave up heroin in 1978 after being arrested five times and stopped taking cocaine in 2006 after he fell from a tree and had to have brain surgery. Keith also claims he has given up all drugs but adds: "I'm just waiting for them to invent something more interesting. I'm all ready to roadtest it." He also revealed the secret to his longevity - by taking only "high quality drugs", adding: "I'd never put more in to get a little higher. That's where most people f*** up. It's the greed involved that never really affected me. "People think once they've got this high, if they take some more they're going to get a little higher. "There's no such thing. Especially with cocaine. Maybe that's a measure of control and I'm rare in that respect. Maybe there I have an advantage." Talking of his enduring image as "the Human Laboratory", Keith says: "I think your persona, your image, as it used to be known, is like a ball and chain. "People think I'm still a goddamn junkie. It's 30 years since I gave up the dope!

Image is like a long shadow. Even when the sun goes down, you can see it. But it's no exaggeration that I was basically living like an outlaw." Keith reveals that Johnny Depp was also a frequent visitor to his home for two years before the penny dropped that he was the Hollywood superstar. In fact Keith had thought he was a drug dealer friend of his son Marlon. "It took me two years before I realised who he was. He was just one of my son Marlon's mates, hanging around the house playing guitar. "I never ask Marlon's mates who they are because, you know, 'I'm a dope dealer'. "Then one day I was at dinner and I'm like, 'Woah, Scissorhands'!" Johnny, of course, went on to credit Keith as the inspiration for his character Jack Sparrow in the Pirates Of The Caribbean films - in the third of which Keith played Sparrow's father. He also remembers John Lennon as "a silly sod, in many ways".

He says: "I don't think John ever left my house, except horizontally." He adds that he once found him lying by the toilet, murmuring: "Don't move me - these tiles are beautiful." In another acerbic put-down, he dismisses the Stones' original leader, the late Brian Jones, as a "wife beater". Keith also has no desire to retire. "People say, 'Why don't you give it up'? "I can't retire until I croak. I don't think they quite understand what I get out of this. I'm not doing it just for the money or for you. I'm doing it for me." Like us on Facebook KEITH AND MICK LOVERS | Weekly World News KEITH AND MICK LOVERS By Frank Lake on October 16, 2010 LONDON – In his autobiography, “Life”, Keith Richards reveals that he and Mick Jagger have been lovers for decades. LONDON – In his autobiography, “Life”, Keith Richards reveals that he and Mick Jagger have been lovers for decades. Keith Richards has led the ultimate rock n’ roll life: filled with sex and drugs and music.

Keith Richards reveals a lot of secrets in his candid, no-holds-barred account of his life. But the biggest revelation was that he and Mick Jagger have been lovers every since The Rolling Stones formed back in April 1962. In a leak from Richards book, WWN has learned Richards said that he’s known Mick since we was 4 years old. Richards is rumored to say in his book. “Mick always seemed like a girl to me. And then one night after I drank enough to drown an elephant, I went over to Mick and kissed him. One thing led to another and we shagged right there on the bathroom floor. We’ve been shagging ever since.” Keith says he and Mick had sex in a hotel room soon after his picture was taken of them in 1966: And they shagged about five minutes after this photo of them jamming. “Mick’s voice was always a turn-on for me.” According to publisher, Geoff Wallingord, Richards says in his book that Mick and he have had many girlfriends, wives, “we’ve banged women from Siberia to Syndey” but he and Mick have always come back to each others arms. “We still like to roll around.

He knows how to get me off. Always has.” In “life”, Richards reveals that even though they have been lovers, their relationship has been fraught with conflict. Richards calls his songwriting partner, “Your Majesty” or “Brenda”. Richards, 67, also reveals that Mick has a “tiny todger”, a detail apparently confirmed by Jagger’s one-time girlfriend Marianne Faithfull, who was involved in a series of complicated love trysts involving the Stones. There have been many women that have also confirmed this fact about Mick. Several have said that he has “the smallest penis in the world.” That doesn’t bother Richards. “Ah, hell, yeah… it’s tiny, but he knows what to do with it. He does that chicken-strut-shit even in bed.” Keith writes in “Life” that he and Mick always used say to each other “start me up” when they wanted to have sex.

That’s why they wrote this song: Share this: Keith Richards Calls Mick Jagger 'Unbearable' in New Book | Billboard Keith Richards Calls Mick Jagger 'Unbearable' in New Book 10/15/2010 COMMENTS Keith Richards Calls Mick Jagger 'Unbearable' in New Book R olling Stones guitarist Keith Richards says in his new autobiography that Mick Jagger became unbearable over the years and reveals he also calls the imperious lead singer "Your Majesty" and "Brenda." The memoir is peppered with references to other celebrities -- from Johnny Depp to John Lennon -- but it is the prickly dynamic between Richards and Jagger that dominates the 527-page book, which is to be serialized in The Times newspaper. Charlie Watts Talks Rolling Stones DVD, 'Exile' Reissue Richards, 66, who met Jagger at the age of four, says he has not stepped foot in Jagger's dressing room in 20 years.

"It was the beginning of the Eighties when Mick started to become unbearable," Richards writes in the memoir, "Life," which brought him an advance of 4.8 million pounds ($7.7 million) after a massive bidding war among publishers. Richards and Jagger were two of the Stones' founding members in 1962 and wrote its hit songs, leading the group to sales of more than 200 million albums worldwide. "Sometimes I think: 'I miss my friend,'" Richards writes. "I wonder: 'where did he go?'" But Richards told the Times that his bandmate had read the book and wanted to take out only one thing -- a reference to Jagger using a voice coach. Richards refused, saying: "I'm trying to say the truth here." He added about Jagger: "We've had our beefs but, hey, who doesn't? You try and keep something together for 50 years," adding the band was considering going on tour again. "I think it's going to happen. I've had a chat with ... Her Majesty. Brenda." The band's last tour ended in August 2007, sparking the customary speculation that there would be no more.

STAR-STUDDED LIFE Richards is similarly frank about other big names. He said he had long failed to recognize Depp when the Oscar-nominated star had been hanging out with his son for two years. "Then one day he was at dinner, and I'm like, 'Whoa!' Scissorhands!" Depp, who played the lead role in the 1990 movie "Edward Scissorhands," credits Richards for inspiring his character Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, and the two are currently shooting the series' fourth installment, where Richards reprises his role as Sparrow's father. Richards also throws in a few choice remarks on the Beatles ' Lennon: "Johnny. A silly sod, in many ways," he writes. "I don't think John ever left my house, except horizontally." He describes finding Lennon lying by the toilet, mumbling: "Don't move me - these tiles are beautiful." Richards himself is famous for his insatiable appetite for drugs, although he gave up heroin in 1978 after a fifth drug bust and stopped using cocaine after a 2006 fall in Fiji forced him to undergo brain surgery. He said he does not regret his exploits.

"I loved a good high. And if you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep," Richards said. During his addict days in the 1960s and 1970s, he spent a decade on the "People Most Likely to Die List." "Well, I'm not putting death on the agenda," he told the Times. "I don't want to see my old friend Lucifer just yet." "Life" is published on October 26. (Reporting by Anna Yukhananov; Editing by Steve Addison) COPYRIGHT: (c) Reuters 2010. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world. Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards calls Mick Jagger ‘unbearable’ | New York Post Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards calls Mick Jagger ‘unbearable’ Modal Trigger Mick Jagger and Keith Richards LUIZ RIBEIRO Legendary Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards revealed Friday the exotic highs and jealous lows of his half-century collaboration with Mick Jagger.

The bond between two of The Rolling Stones’ founder members was now so strained, Richards said he has not set foot in Jagger’s dressing room in 20 years. He added he misses the friend with whom he forged one of music’s most successful writing partnerships. In his much anticipated autobiography, “Life,” to be serialized exclusively in The (London) Times from Saturday, Richards describes in frank detail what sounds like a long and particularly explosive marriage, complete with love rivalries, drug taking, epic arguments and jaw-dropping insults. His relationship with Jagger has continued to be turbulent. Richards, 66, confirmed that his nickname for Jagger is “Your Majesty” or “Brenda.” Richards said, “It was the beginning of the ‘80s when Mick started to become unbearable,” adding, “I think Mick thinks I belong to him.” He admitted, “I used to love Mick, but I haven’t been to his dressing room in 20 years. Sometimes I think, ‘I miss my friend.’ I wonder, ‘Where did he go?’” Jagger has read the book, Richards said.

“I think it opened his eyes a bit.” The only thing Jagger asked him to take out was a reference to him having used a voice coach. Richards declined. Despite their fractious relationship, Richards said they expect to tour again. “I think it’s going to happen. I’ve had a chat with … Her Majesty. Brenda.” In the book, for which he was paid an advance of $7.7 million, Richards wrote with candor about his notorious drug taking. He gave up heroin in 1978 after being busted five times and finally stopped taking cocaine in 2006 after he fell from a tree and needed to have brain surgery. In an interview, he claimed to have given up all drugs, but added, “I’m just waiting for them to invent something more interesting. I’m all ready to road test it.” Richards said he has no regrets about taking heroin. “There was a lot of experience in there. I loved a good high.

If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.” He recalls a night when The Beatles star John Lennon — “a silly sod [fool], in many ways” — came round in a bathroom, lying by the toilet, murmuring, “Don’t move me — these tiles are beautiful.” Richards also revealed that that he worried that Johnny Depp was his son’s drug dealer – before realizing he was an actor. “It took me two years before I realized who he was,” Richards said. “He was just one of my son Marlon’s mates, hanging around the house playing guitar. “I never ask Marlon’s mates who they are because, you know, ‘I’m a dope dealer.’ “Then one day I was at dinner and I’m like “Woah, Scissorhands.”‘ Share this: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on the feud that nearly broke the Rolling Stones | Daily Mail Online comments It was the row that nearly split them. But now Mick says he’s glad Keith’s apologised for calling him ‘bitchy Brenda’. And so is Keith. Just in time – they’ve got Glastonbury on Saturday… 'It's a really good working relationship.

Keith (Richards) seems to be quite focused, and he seems to be enjoying playing,' said Mick Jagger Mick Jagger ON KEITH RICHARDS In mid-April, I sit for nearly an hour with Mick Jagger in his Beverly Hills hotel suite. He is wearing slim black jeans and a light pink long-sleeved shirt with a button-down collar, trim and as fit as ever. ‘I don’t know what the hell we’re going to talk about,’ he says, as he takes a seat at a dining-room table, smiling. About Keith Richards, and what he wrote in his 2010 memoir Life perhaps. I ask Jagger if an apology from Richards was... 'Everybody's still here, which is obviously an important ingredient,' said Keith ‘A prerequisite, you might say?’ Jagger offers, with a tight smile. ‘Well, I think it was a good thing he got together with me and said that. 'I don’t really want to talk about it apart from that, but I think it’s good that he said it, and yes, it was a prerequisite, really. ‘You have to put those things to one side; you can’t leave them unspoken.

'It’s very tempting – English people like to do that. They don’t like to face up to these things. 'It’s easy to push them out of the way, but it’s good we had that conversation.’ But were there things Jagger liked about Richards’ book? Did he find it, overall, an accurate take on the band’s early history? ‘Accurate...’ He repeats the word with a bitter laugh. ‘I don’t really want to talk about Keith’s book.’ In 1987, when I asked Jagger about Richards, he said: ‘I feel...I respect him, and I feel a lot of affection for him, and I feel protective. 'He’s the kind of person who, well, he has a certain vulnerability. He’s had a lot of hard times. 'He’s had a lot of good times. We’ve had a lot of fun and a lot of heartache together.’ Today, when I ask him about his present relationship with Richards, Jagger replies, ‘It’s a really good working relationship.

Keith seems to be quite focused, and he seems to be enjoying playing.’ In the moment when Jagger declines to say more about Richards, he looks down at a glass of water and his reticence seems to emerge from a place of genuine hurt. I try a sideways approach into the matter of Richards’ criticisms of the singer as a cold and designing person. Over the years, others have said something similar. Does Jagger understand that reaction? ‘I think it’s kind of a cliché, really,’ he says. ‘People like to pop-analyse others, put them into boxes and say, ‘Oh, Keith’s so passionate, and Mick’s cold and dispassionate.’ Mick in Keith's villa on the Cote d'Azur in 1971 'People aren’t like that in real life. Keith can be as cold and dispassionate as almost anyone I know. I don’t mean that as a criticism, because you have to be sometimes. ‘People have different natures. Talking about yourself as a person, not just as part of a band, I don’t know where to separate or not. 'I have to be analytical sometimes, outside of music, then I have to be feeling as well.

I have to see other people’s points of view. 'If I’m talking business with someone, I try to see their point of view. You step back and analyse it. You don’t need to be emotional with these things. RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share ‘But that doesn’t mean that I’m not passionate about the musical side of it. I can be really emotional about it. You have to be all things at once. I get very excited about designing stage sets and things like that, graphics and merchandise. 'I work sometimes with Charlie on them, and we get very excited about these things. 'I’ve lots of different roles within the Rolling Stones, and then I have roles outside of the band that have nothing to do with the Rolling Stones at all. So I don’t want to be pigeonholed that I’m one thing.’ Later, I try one more roundabout question about Jagger’s relationship to Richards. Charlie Watts told me, ‘The two big offenders virtually lived together when they were kids, didn’t they? 'They lived down the road from each other. It comes from all that. They’re like brothers, arguing about the rent, and then if you get between it, forget it.’ Is Keith like a brother?

'People always say things like that. But I have a brother (Chris Jagger)... My relationship with my brother is nothing at all like my relationship with Keith,' said Mick This has been echoed by Richards himself, who said recently that he and Jagger were like ‘two very volatile brothers – when they clash, they really clash, but when it’s over...’ Does Jagger see it that way? ‘People always say things like that,’ Jagger replies. ‘But I have a brother (Chris Jagger), you know? 'My relationship with my brother is nothing at all like my relationship with Keith, which is someone you work with, completely different. With a brother, you have parents in common, families in common. 'We don’t have that, Keith and I. We work together. If you didn’t have a brother you might say that it was like being a brother. But being in a band is another kind of relationship.’ Doesn’t that band relationship make for a strong bond? ‘Well, yeah, if you work with someone that long, it makes a lot of bonds, a lot of memories and things you relate to from your past. You have reference points that you can evoke.

'You have relationships with everyone in the band, and you have relationships with people in the periphery of the band, so it’s a large group. But it isn’t a family.’ Keith Richards ON MICK JAGGER 'I'd say anything to get the band together, you know? I'd lie to my mother,' said Keith I meet Richards in a lounge at the rehearsal complex where the Rolling Stones are practising for the tour. He wears slim jeans, a ragged-looking black T-shirt, and his grey hair puffs up above a grey bandanna. Richards no longer dyes his hair, nor have there been obvious efforts at cosmetic surgery for him or the other Stones. These are no doubt reasonably vain men, but they are at home with the age in their faces. As we talk, Richards keeps a cigarette going. I ask the guitarist about a comment by Prince Rupert Loewenstein, former longtime financial adviser to the Stones.

In his recent book, A Prince Among Stones, he wrote, ‘A relation, who dabbled in psychoanalysis, said, “In a way, Keith is coming out the winner on a human level – Mick on a professional one.’’’ I half-expect a demurral from Richards – nobody in or around the Stones, I’d been told, wants to risk the present armistice – but he responds without hesitation. ‘I would say that’s a pretty fair judgment on it, yeah.’ At the premiere of Martin Scorsese’s 2008 band concert film, Shine a Light, Richards was asked if he could imagine life without the other Rolling Stones. He looked bemused. ‘Easily,’ he said. Which might be true – or not. ‘We know we’re damn good,’ Richards tells me, ‘and we have some weird desire to make it better. 'Everybody’s still here, which is obviously an important ingredient. With any band that has been around, even for a few years, not everybody likes everybody all the time. 'But maybe you have a need for that conversation to continue, and music is the one way you can do that. It’s stronger than the other things that get in the way.

‘It would be a miracle, wouldn’t it, in 50 years for two guys to get on, let alone three or four? 'I don’t want to over-emphasise the differences between Mick and me. You never hear about the 98 per cent of the time we’re in sync and know each other and know what we want to do. But my main means of communication is through music. 'Call it a gentlemen’s agreement or something like that. It’s unspoken, but I notice that once we start working, a lot of the barriers or whatever you want to call them do tend to disappear.’ Richards says he wasn’t surprised by Jagger’s response. Mick with girlfriend L'Wren Scott ‘No, not really. Uh, because I know what he’s like. 'As I told Mick, “You should have seen what I left out!’’ Keith says with a laugh. ‘I said, “I know exactly what you did. You got the book, you went straight to the index – Jagger, M – and that’s what you read. You didn’t take it in context. You didn’t.” So, yeah, we had a bit of a doo-dah, but I expected it.

We resolved it, in our own way, you know.’ Mick requested an apology? ‘He did,’ says Richards, ‘and I said that I regret if I caused you any, you know, inconvenience or pain, or something. It was...’ Richards laughs. ‘I’d say anything to get the band together, you know? I’d lie to my mother.’ Did Richards feel the band was in jeopardy? ‘No, not at all. No. I thought it was a very interesting little prick – a little shot of adrenaline.’ Looking back now, is there anything he wishes he hadn’t said in print? ‘No, no, no, no.’ Richards laughs again. ‘I say what I say and that’s it. I wouldn’t retract a thing, man.’ I have to wonder: Have there been times, perhaps during this recent spat with Jagger, that Richards worried that the band was just broken? ‘Sometimes I’d look at it and say: “This damn band is broken – but not unfixable.” But none of us ever discarded it in the junkyard.

It was like, “Yeah, it’s a bit broken, and it’ll take a bit of work to, you know, to get it into shape again.” 'That’s what we’ve done the last year, is we’ve knocked the thing back into shape and into far better shape than I’d hoped for.’ I remind Richards that he said one of his goals was to see the Stones grow up, or grow older, gracefully. It might be fair to say they’ve also grown up a bit ungracefully, at times. Is there a value to growing up ungracefully, too? ‘Um, yeah. Grace is... is a wonderful thing. Only, though, when you see it done with imperfection. 'Otherwise, if everything’s graceful all the time, you get used to it. It’s the odd ungraceful move that enhances the grace of the rest of it. You get my drift?’ Watts also told me something about grace: ‘If the music we play together is great, that’s why Mick’s forgiven Keith, and vice versa – then that will be why Keith’s forgiven Mick, or himself, for whatever he said about Mick.

'I think that that’s probably the saving grace of it all.’ BRENDAGATE: Keith takes the Mick In his 2011 memoir, Life, Richards described Jagger’s 2001 album, Goddess In The Doorway, as ‘Dogs**t In The Doorway’, and portrayed Jagger as a man who had changed from beguiling and attentive to cold, ambitious and controlling. ‘It was the start of the Eighties,’ Richards wrote, ‘when Mick became unbearable. He became Brenda, or Her Majesty… 'We’d be talking about “that bitch Brenda” with him in the room, and he wouldn’t know.’ The book also alleged that Marianne Faithfull had no fun with Mick’s ‘tiny todger’, and that ‘Mick doesn’t like to trust anybody. I think it’s something to do with the way he’s had to deal with being Mick Jagger. He can’t stop being Mick Jagger all the time.’ Both men had taken jabs at each other in the press over the years, only to smooth things over. This time was different.

Before there could be serious plans for a 50th-anniversary tour Jagger made it plain that there would have to be a reckoning. The details of what passed between the two men remain private, but Wood called it ‘tense and awkward’. There was even a rumour Richards’ position as the Stones’ rhythm guitarist might be in peril. ANSWERS: 1. A, 2. B, 3. C, 4. B, 5. B, 6 .B, 7. B, 8. B, 9. B, 10. C

Question: In his autobiography "Life", what does Keith Richards say is his nickname for Mick Jagger?
Answer: Brenda