The closest Rolling Stones arrived from ending activities

With a career that exceeds 60 years, the Rolling Stones They have lived everything. Of the glory of being one of the most important bands of all time to the nightmares faced on the way, such as the tragic death of Brian Jones, drug addiction and homeric fights between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

According to the producer Chris Kimseyhowever, nothing compares to the album period Undercover (1983). The recordings began in November 1982 and only ended in August of the following year.

In an interview with the newspaper The Independent (via Far Out), Kimsey said that at that time Jagger and Richards hated for real. And that the pair preceded until it took turns their schedules in the studio so as not to go on a collision route.

Kimsey explains:

“That was the worst time I ever spent with them. We recorded much of Nassauin the Bahamasand then mix in New Yorkin Hit factor. I would put Mick in the noon studio at seven at night, and the Keith from nine at night to five in the morning. ”

The producer adds details of the conviviality with the creative geniuses of the Stones during the making of Undercover:

“They didn’t stay together. They specifically avoided each other. Mick asked, ‘When he (Keith) is coming? I arrive later.’ After about a week, that was killing me. And they were so silly things, like, ‘What did he do?’

Did not help Mick Jagger, a few years later, was released in a solo career with the album She’s the Boss (1985). Keith Richards hated the fact that the vocalist is no longer focused exclusively on the band.

Rolling Stones and more dirty work bullshit

When the Stones gathered to record the successor of Undercoverthe internal cracks were still visible. Responsible for the disc Dirty Work (1986), the producer Steve Lillywhite told the Produce Like a Pro (via Ultimate Guitar) That simply there was no sense of unit in the group:

“The band was kind of separate, because Mick and Keith were not talking, everyone knew. Mick had just released their first solo album, which was affectionately known as ‘that album Disco (Music)’.”

Finally peace

This scenario lasted around 1988, when Keith Richards also used a solo career. Edges only began to be trimmed the following year, during the process of composing and recording Steel Wheelslaunched in August 1989.

It was the album that sealed the rebirth of the creative partnership between Jagger and Richards, who over the decade had led the band to face their great experience of almost death.

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