Unused shot from the Goats Head Soup cover session: (l-r) Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman and Mick Jagger
Photo by AUBREY POWELL
MICK Jagger has a room with a view. It is mid-afternoon in Tuscany and the sun is overhead. Thankful for the breeze, Jagger works through a problem that has been bugging him lately.
“A couple of days ago, I was working on this ballad,” he confides. “The reading of it is quite difficult to do. It’s not technically difficult, but it’s not an easy song to interpret. I’m very aware I’ve got to get it over in the right way. It’s got to come out like you mean it!”