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- <title>
- Sep. 04, 1989: From The Publisher
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 04, 1989 Rock Rolls On:Rolling Stones
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- <p> You mean, the Rolling Stones have never been on the cover of
- TIME? Well, they almost were, back in 1972, when their seventh
- U.S. tour was taking America by storm. Photographer Ken Regan
- posed the "satanic majesties" of rock backstage in San Francisco
- and Los Angeles, but the cover did not appear: it was bumped by
- one on George McGovern taking over the Democratic Party. "I've
- been waiting 17 years for this cover," chuckled Regan last week,
- as he arranged the Stones for their portrait, older but still
- flaunting their stuff.
- </p>
- <p> Yet the bad boys of rock have definitely mellowed. "Through
- the years, the Stones have rarely been accessible," says Regan,
- who has shot pictures for several of the band's tours and
- albums. For our cover shoot, Mick Jagger and his mates
- interrupted (for 1 1/2 hours) preparations for their first
- American tour in eight years. Regan trundled his gear up to
- tiny Washington, Conn. (pop. 3,700), where the Stones were
- rehearsing in a former girls school. "They're not terribly
- comfortable posing for pictures," Regan notes, "but this time
- they were as loose and relaxed as I've ever seen them." Quipped
- Jagger, after being asked to strike a new pose: "Oh, do we have
- to do this again? We did it years ago."
- </p>
- <p> TIME art director Rudy Hoglund, who coordinated the shoot,
- caught a glimpse of the personal Stones. "Their public image
- comes across as rather harsh," Hoglund says. "But I found them
- to be charming, regular people. Keith Richards had a friendly
- Labrador dog that followed him everywhere. He seemed like a
- very gentle kind of guy."
- </p>
- <p> MaryAnne Golon, TIME's assistant picture editor for special
- projects, was struck by the natural excitement the Stones seem
- to generate. "You can plan where people should stand, what they
- should wear and which kind of background to use," she notes,
- "but you can't plan them." She didn't need to. Long before the
- session was over, TIME had caught that old Stones magic.
- </p>
- <p> Our 50th-anniversary special on World War II concludes this
- week with a look at the nightmare years that led up to Japan's
- attack on Pearl Harbor.
- </p>
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