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Richards, Jagger tut at Amy Winehouse
You'd imagine if anyone had sympathy for Amy Winehouse, it'd be the Rolling Stones.
Not so:
"She should get her act together," the former junkie said during a round-table interview at the Berlin International Film Festival on Friday to promote Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary "Shine a Light."
The often-addled rocker paused, then added: "Apart from that, I have got nothing to say to the bitch."
The often-addled rocker paused, then added: "Apart from that, I have got nothing to say to the bitch."
'Pull yourself together'. That's a constructive approach, Keith. Mind you, what would you expect from someone who calls a woman a "bitch" for no reason.
Jagger, meanwhile, tried to make it seem like they were a little less hypocritical by suggesting that back in their day, drugs were new and unknown:
"When we were experimenting with drugs, little was known about the effects," Jagger said.
Cocaine was banned in the United States in 1914. Heroin addiction was being studied seriously in New York in the 1950s and the problem was well known enough in the UK in the 1960s for a survey of addicts receiving treatment to be the subject of what would become a thirty-year study. For a time in the 1950s, it seemed that all movies included some sort of reference to pot, potheads, and the risks. Reefer Madness came out in 1935. And Jagger is trying to say that nobody knew anything about the effects of drugs in the mid 1960s?
"In our time there were no rehab centers like today. Anyway, I did not know about them."
So, the information was there, but you chose to ignore it. Isn't that exactly the same recklessness you're accusing Winehouse of?
4 comments:
Reefer madness? Not the most accurate portrayal of marijuana use ever made, is it?
Olive: I recently viewed it with Rifftrax. Sheer bliss...
"She should get her act together"--okay Richards, as a man whose blood is probably by now one of the most toxic substances on the planet, you have no room to speak.
"Keith, we kids can't do drugs, you already fucking did them all! We have to wait till you die and then smoke your ashes!"
--Denis Leary
@Olive
No, but it does undermine Mick's claims that nobody had ever said drugs might be bad when the Stones were young.
"Reefer Madness" may not be a good example but Sinatra's "The Man With the Golden Arm" certainly is.
Still, senility is no laughing matter.
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