1982
Still I play the fool and strut
1982
Still I play the fool and strut
January 1982: Bill Wyman holds solo recordings sessions in England and
production work for the Stray Cats.
Early February 1982: Mick Jagger
and Keith Richards join director Hal Ashby in Los Angeles to start
work on the
concert film Let's Spend the Night Together.
February 1982: Keith Richards spends time with comedian John Belushi in
Los Angeles a month before the latter's
death.
February-March 1982: Bill Wyman promotes the release of his next solo album
in Australia, Indonesia and Japan.
February 18-21, 1982: Ron Wood joins Bobby Womack, then Chuck Berry, onstage
at The Ritz in New York City.
Late February 1982: Mick Jagger
and Keith Richards work on the soundtrack for the film Let's Spend the
Night Together
at
the Power Station in New York City.
March-April 1982: Mick Jagger
and Keith Richards, joined by Charlie Watts and Ron Wood, mix tracks
and record
overdubs for the live album Still Life at The Power Station in New
York City.
March 18, 1982: Keith Richards and Ron Wood record with Jimmy Cliff in
New York City. Later Keith Richards and
Patti Hansen attend Ron Wood's party for his girlfriend Jo at Studio 54.
March 26, 1982: Bill Wyman's third solo album, Bill Wyman, is released.
April 1982: Bill Wyman moves back to England after eleven years of living
in France.
April 17, 1982: Ron Wood joins Toots and the Maytals onstage at The Ritz
in New York City.
April 22, 1982: Stevie Ray Vaughan auditions for Rolling Stones Records
in New York City, with Mick Jagger and
Ron Wood in attendance.
April 26, 1982: Keith Richards joins Etta James onstage at The Other End
in New York City, performing Rock Me
Baby.
April 28-30, 1982: Mick Jagger
holds press conferences in London, Vienna, Munich and Paris announcing
the Rolling
Stones' 1982 European Tour.
| Mick Jagger
& Keith Richards (1982): Touring Europe
Mick: We don't make any money is one of the reasons (we don't tour Europe frequently). And life is only so long... And - we just figured we should really go because if it's gonna be (laughs) another 7 years, we may NEVER go again. I mean, that's a real - you've really got to face up to that (laughs). I mean, we'll never go again, that'll be the last time definitely we go to Europe, unless we go the year after. Not in this band, in this place, I mean... it's impossible. Keith: I need this to keep me young. When we started this band we thought we had about two or three years. Now it's habit and it's absolutely vital that it works on the road. We need constant contact with a living audience. We're so excited about the prospect of doing Britain again after so long. Wherever we might make our home now, Britain is where our roots are. |
May 7-24, 1982: The Rolling Stones
hold tour rehearsals at Shepperton Studios in London, England.
May 1982: Keith Richards meets his father again, Bert Richards, for the
first time in 20 years.
| Ron Wood
(1982): Touring Europe after America
I was talking to Mick the other night about the European tour we were about to embark on. He was saying, Try to think about some numbers that England would like. You know, let's say England, or as Angie was the biggest ever for the Stones in Europe, we mustn't forget to put it in and all that kind of thing. 'Cause Europe they want to see... - it's like, All right then, you've left us out. Or you WERE going to leave us out. Or now you're here, FINALLY, after doing the States and given them all your finest kind of thing. So what we do is make it an extension of what we did in 1981. But even better. |
May 26-28, 1982: The Rolling Stones
perform warm-up, theatre concerts in Aberdeen, Glasgow and
Edinburgh
in Scotland. Keyboardist Chuck Leavell makes his public debut with the
band.
May 30, 1982: The Rolling Stones
perform a final warm-up concert in London, England, at the 100 Club.
June
1, 1982: The Rolling Stones' 4th live album, Still Life, is released.
| Mick Jagger
& Keith Richards (1982): Still Life
Mick: Live albums are funny things. I mean, it's not the sort of thing I rush home to play but this one sounds pretty good. It's... CONCISE. You know, it's like a telescopic version of the show. Keith: All this live stuff I want to come out as soon as it's ready, you know. Otherwise it becomes history. I would've liked the live album to come out in January but it's impossible, you know - I was dead on me feet. It sounds pretty good to me and I don't generally like live albums. I've stuck with this one so - it's good stuff. |
June 2-5, 1982: The Rolling Stones
officially kick off their 1982 Tattoo You European Tour, their first
tour of the
continent in six years, with three concerts at Feyenoord Stadium in Rotterdam
in the
Netherlands.
June 3, 1982: Mick Jagger joins George Thorogood onstage at a club in The
Hague, Netherlands.
June 6-11, 1982: The Rolling Stones
perform in West Germany, with two stadium concerts in Hannover
(their first
ever), an arena show in West Berlin and two stadium shows in Munich.
June 13-16, 1982: The Rolling
Stones swing through France, perform two stadium concerts in Paris and
one in Lyon.
June 19-20, 1982: The Rolling
Stones perform two concerts at Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden.
June 23, 1982: The Rolling Stones
start the British leg of their European Tour with a concert at St. James
Park in Newcastle.
June 25-26, 1982: The Rolling
Stones perform their first ever concerts at Wembley Stadium in London,
England. Ringo
Starr is among those attending on the first night.
June 27, 1982: The Rolling Stones
perform at Ashton Gate Park in Bristol, England.
June 29-July 5, 1982: The Rolling
Stones swing back through West Germany and Austria, performing
three concerts
at the Festhalle in Frankfurt, a concert at Prater Stadium in Vienna and
two shows at
Müngersdorfer
Stadium in Cologne.
July 2, 1982: Keith Richards, Ron Wood and Chuck Leavell sing a privately
taped song in the bathroom of a
restaurant in Vienna, where the band is holding a birthday party for Jerry
Hall.
July 3, 1982: Mick Jagger appears onstage at the Moulin Rouge nightclub
in Vienna.
July 7-9, 1982: The Rolling Stones
perform two concerts at Vincente Calderon Stadium in Madrid, Spain,
their first
ever in the city.
July 11-12, 1982: The Rolling
Stones perform their first concerts in Italy since 1970, and first ever
in
Turin, at
Stadio Comunale. July 12 marks the 20th anniversary of the Rolling Stones'
first ever
concert, at
the Marquee Club in London.
July 15-17, 1982: The Rolling
Stones perform in Basel, Switzerland and Naples, Italy, both for the first
time.
July 20, 1982: The Rolling Stones
return to France to perform at the Parc des Sports de l'Ouest in Nice.
July 24, 1982: The Rolling Stones
perform in Ireland for the first time since 1965, performing at Slane
Castle in
Slane.
July 25, 1982: On the eve of Mick
Jagger's 39th birthday, the Rolling Stones end their 1982 European
Tour with
a concert at Roundhay Park in Leeds, England, their last ever concert with
Ian Stewart
and their
last paid public performance for the next seven years.
July 26, 1982: Mick Jagger celebrates his birthday in London, along with
Ron Wood, Ian Stewart and others.
July 27, 1982: Keith Richards, Ron Wood and Bobby Keys jam with the J.
Geils Band at the Carlton Hotel in London,
England.
Late July 1982: Mick Jagger is in Paris, France, doing business work for
the eventual release of the Rolling Stones'
concert film.
August 1982: The Rolling Stones Past and Present, a 12-hour documentary,
starts airing on U.S. radio.
August 18-20, 1982: Keith Richards watches the Reggae Sunsplash festival
in Jamaica.
September 1982: Keith Richards returns to New York after his stay in Jamaica.
September 25, 1982: Mick Jagger watches The Who and The Clash perform at
JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, with his
daughter Jade, one year after the Rolling Stones performed there.
October-November 1982: Jerry Hall and Mick Jagger hold a widely publicized
separation, with Jerry Hall seeing
multi-millionaire horse-breeder Robert Sangster and Mick Jagger publicly
dating many (mostly very young)
women.
| Jerry Hall
(1985): Mick on tour
Mick becomes a totally different person on tour. Instead of the nice, gentle, gentlemanly guy I live with, he becomes this incredible egomaniac. If you took it literally, you'd think: God, this guy is rude. On tour he never opens the door for anyone. That's unheard of. He goes toward a door and you follow three steps behind. And if the door slams in your face, that's too bad. |
October 7-13, 1982: Mick Jagger
works with director Hal Ashby again on the concert film Let's Spend
the Night
Together in Los Angeles.
Late October 1982: Charlie Watts
is in New York City, where the Rolling Stones possibly hold band
meetings to
discuss future plans.
October 25, 1982: Ron Wood plays sitar at a restaurant in New York City.
November 10, 1982: Mick Jagger is in the audience in New York City watching
the taping of Late Night with David
Letterman.
November 1982: Mick Jagger, Keith
Richards, and at some point Charlie Watts, start work on the
Rolling Stones'
next album, Undercover, recording demos in Paris, France.
| Mick Jagger
(1983): Writing the Undercover album
When we started off writing (the Undercover album), Keith and I got in a bit early and we rented an 8-track demo studio here in Paris. And I said, Well, have you got some, Keith? and we took turns at playing the drums and - well, we played guitar and we got to know the material each of us had written in the past few months, you know. So when we actually got the band into the studio, we had sort of a hard-core bunch of songs, which is ACTUALLY most of the songs on the album. |
November-December 19, 1982: The
Rolling Stones start official recording sessions for the album
Undercover
at
EMI-Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris, France.
| Mick Jagger
(1984): "She Was Hot"
She Was Hot is a bit of an on-the-road song. You know, Detroit was smoky grey, nothing like the good old days or something. It's a bit of a road song, which I hate - road songs - normally. But, I mean, that's your experience so you draw on it. |
Mid-December 1982: The Rolling
Stones hold a band meeting at the Ritz Hotel in Paris with Prince
Rupert Loewenstein,
to discuss future possible album and tour plans.
December 18, 1982: The band celebrates Keith Richards' 39th birthday at
a restaurant in St Denis, France.
Late December 1982: Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall holiday in Mustique, while
Charlie and Bill return to England.
Keith Richards and Patti Hansen return to New York, and are planning to
wed.