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Rolling Stones Quotes: Mick, on the possible end of the Stones (1987)

“I can’t be specific. I can’t. I don’t think I have to, really. It’s just that friction builds up over the years. It’s like a marriage but I don’t want to talk about the what, why and wherefore of me and Keith’s marriage and sort of say, Oh, it was awful, he used to leave his dirty knickers all over the living room floor, that kind of thing. It’s just that friction builds up and I just couldn’t deal with it anymore. It became impossible to run the band the state they were worked up into…

…I didn’t really know WHY they were so worked up, but I think a lot of it was just having too much of a good thing. It was all a bit knackered and I was the one who had to hold it all together and I just lost patience with everybody, it’s as simple as that. I just could not deal with them anymore. It was like: don’t expect me to pick up the pieces again and put everyone together again and make it whole because I can’t be bothered anymore. You have to read between the lines a bit, I’m afraid, but it does come down to two people flying off the handle.”

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By 1987, the Jagger-Richards feud was in full swing, and let’s just say they weren’t sending each other Christmas cards. Mick was off chasing his pop star dreams with a solo career, while Keith—ever the rock purist—was fuming, calling his album Primitive Cool anything but. Keith, of course, responded the only way he knew how: with a solo album of his own, Talk Is Cheap—a not-so-subtle jab at his old mate. The tension was real, the insults were flying, and the Stones? Well, they were on an indefinite break. So yes, the end of The Stones at the time eas really possible. But, like any good rock ‘n’ roll soap opera, the two eventually made up. After all, what’s a little public mudslinging between Glimmer Twins?

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