You then did Their Satanic Majesties Request. What was going on here? I probably started to take too many drugs. What do you think about Satanic Majesties now? Well, it's not very good. It had interesting things on it, but I don't think any of the songs are very good. It's a bit like Between the Buttons. It's a sound experience, really, rather than a song experience. There's two good songs on it: "She's a Rainbow," which we didn't do on the last tour, although we almost did, and "2000 Light Years From Home," which we did do. The rest of them are nonsense.
["Sympthy for the Devil"] has a very strong opening: "Please allow me to introduce myself." And then it's this Everyman figure in history who keeps appearing from the beginning of civilization. Yeah, it's a very long historical figure - the figures of evil and figures of good - so it is a tremendously long trail he's made as personified in this piece.
After Altamont, did you shy away from performing that song? Yeah, probably, for a bit. It stigmatized the song in a way? Yeah. Because it became so involved with [Altamont] - sort of journalistically and so on. There were other things going on with it apart from Altamont. Was it the black-magic thing? Yeah. And that's not really what I meant. My whole thing of this song was not black magic and all this silly nonsense - like Megadeth or whatever else came afterward. It was different than that. We had played around with that imagery before - which is "Satanic Majesties" - but it wasn't really put into words. Did it cause you to back off that kind of satanic imagery? The satanic-imagery stuff was very overplayed [by journalists]. We didn't want to really go down that road. And I felt that song was enough. You didn't want to make a career out of it. But bands did that - Jimmy Page, for instance. Big Aleister Crowley... I knew lots of people that were into Aleister Crowley. What I'm saying is, it wasn't what I meant by the song "Sympathy for the Devil." If you read it, it's not about black magic, per se.
Re: Мик Джаггер
You then did Their Satanic Majesties Request. What was going on here?
I probably started to take too many drugs.
What do you think about Satanic Majesties now?
Well, it's not very good. It had interesting things on it, but I don't think any of the songs are very good. It's a bit like Between the Buttons. It's a sound experience, really, rather than a song experience. There's two good songs on it: "She's a Rainbow," which we didn't do on the last tour, although we almost did, and "2000 Light Years From Home," which we did do. The rest of them are nonsense.
["Sympthy for the Devil"] has a very strong opening: "Please allow me to introduce myself." And then it's this Everyman figure in history who keeps appearing from the beginning of civilization.
Yeah, it's a very long historical figure - the figures of evil and figures of good - so it is a tremendously long trail he's made as personified in this piece.
After Altamont, did you shy away from performing that song?
Yeah, probably, for a bit.
It stigmatized the song in a way?
Yeah. Because it became so involved with [Altamont] - sort of journalistically and so on. There were other things going on with it apart from Altamont.
Was it the black-magic thing?
Yeah. And that's not really what I meant. My whole thing of this song was not black magic and all this silly nonsense - like Megadeth or whatever else came afterward. It was different than that. We had played around with that imagery before - which is "Satanic Majesties" - but it wasn't really put into words.
Did it cause you to back off that kind of satanic imagery?
The satanic-imagery stuff was very overplayed [by journalists]. We didn't want to really go down that road. And I felt that song was enough. You didn't want to make a career out of it. But bands did that - Jimmy Page, for instance.
Big Aleister Crowley...
I knew lots of people that were into Aleister Crowley. What I'm saying is, it wasn't what I meant by the song "Sympathy for the Devil." If you read it, it's not about black magic, per se.
http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/mickjagger/articles/story/5938394/the_rolling_stone_interview
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