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KEITH RICHARDS and USCHI OBERMAIER, 1975

“With Uschi Obermaier, especially at that time, it was lust, pure and simple. And then she grew on me and entered my heart. We’d draw pictures or use sign language. But even if we couldn’t talk to each other, I’d found a friend. As simple as that, really. And I loved her dearly. We dabbled around off and on with each other in the ’70s, and then she took off with her new love, boyfriend Dieter Bockhorn, to Afghanistan, and she slipped from my mind and my heart. And then I heard that she’d died, of a miscarriage somewhere in Turkey. Which was almost true, but it turned out she was smarter than that. I found out the real story many years later on a beach in Mexico, on the most important day of my life.”

— Life by Keith Richards

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KEITH RICHARDS, MICK TAYLOR, and MICK JAGGER performing at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, December 14, 1981

“I stepped through the door of a modern house into a large high-ceilinged room, unfurnished except for a P.A, amps, drum kit and a Hammond organ. Mick Taylor saw me as I walked in, and beamed as he stepped around the cables that were all over the floor. I hadn’t realised he’d played on Bob Dylan’s new album, Infidels, so I was pleasantly surprised to see him there. He told me Bob was getting a band together to promote his new album in Europe, and the tour was due to start in ten days time.

Now I was really excited. I hadn’t seen Mick since he sat in with the Stones in Kansas City in 1981. They’d plugged his guitar cord into an amp directly behind me that night, but as he was at least thirty feet away at the front of the stage, he could hardly hear it, so he cranked the volume all the way up. I’ve never heard anything louder than the sound that came from that amp in my whole life and I ran from the stage to protect my ears and wouldn’t go back on until he left the stage.

That aside, I’d always liked Mick. He’s an affable, unpretentious soul without a bad bone in his body. Colin Allen was sitting at the drums, and the last time I’d seen him was in a cafe on the M1 in 1966, when I was in the Small Faces and he and Andy Summers were in Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band. It helped knowing a couple of the guys because although I’d been introduced to Bob a couple of times before, I was still nervous, not having played for a while.”

— Ian McLagan, All The Rage