Stones in Exile Page #4

F*** ya."

That was behind the attitude.

We said,

"We're all gonna do this, boys.

"We're all just gonna move out

and be a family and do it,

"and here's the place."

And, in a way, it was energising.

I ended up there because that's where

everybody else went.

My boys that I play rock'n'roll with

left the country.

We were invited to go and we went.

I didn't mind living

between Nice and Monte Carlo.

Didn't mind that a bit.

Didn't mind all the pretty girls

around the countryside.

Yes, sir, buddy.

South of France and a young man

in his 20s,

a rock'n'roll musician,

that's a mighty good combination.

I'm tellin' ya!

That's when you're shitting in tall cotton.

Can you say that?

I just said that.

The Stones, during that time, were quite

spread out across the South of France,

so it was a little difficult

to get everyone together

for long periods at a time.

They'd get together for a few days

and then everybody would want

to go home and see their families.

Then there was the fact that Bianca

was in her late stages of pregnancy

during that period,

so Mick was constantly in Paris

where Bianca was.

So it wasn't the best conditions at all.

I remember,

we just couldn't seem to get started.

- There. Come in again.

- Charlie should...

Yeah, it would make it so...

Andy, could you turn the

piano up just a bit?

...just have the off beat.

Charlie, did you get that?

Do you want to try that?

It would be nice to change the drum sound

when it comes back in again.

I'd just moved to France,

and I used to have to drive,

a six-and-a-half, seven-hour drive

from where I lived,

on these little roads.

I couldn't do it every night,

play and go home,

so I lived with Keith.

I lived in a room upstairs and Keith lived

in a huge bedroom above that.

We had... It was quite...

I mean, it was pretty together, really.

In a mad sort of way.

We would work any time in 24 hours.

So, if it was 11 o'clock at night

it would go for another 12 hours,

or if it was at 12 o'clock midday,

it would go for 12...

You know, whatever time.

That's why you had to live there.

I'm 21 years old, and there I am

in the South of France,

working with the best band on the planet,

getting paid good cash money.

Come on, it was pretty cool!

It was my initiation into how

you can actually live rock'n'roll.

At that point in time, the Rolling Stones

were the centre of the world.

I might have been somewhat delusional,

but music was very important back then.

It was the heyday of...

"Music's going to change the world."

All that rubbish.

And they were changing the world.

What a lot of people forget is,

they were doing it, they really were.

The Rolling Stones, at the time,

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