No renowned artist escapes criticism, not even the rolling stones. In fact, throughout its more than 60 years of history, Mike jagger, Keith Richards and company have been the target of countless poison darts, not only from the press but also from their colleagues. On this occasion we want to remind 3 heavyweights of music who once ranted against their satanic majesties.
John Lennon
Everyone knows the love-hate relationship that the Stones and the Beatles have always had. On one occasion, Lennon claimed that Jagger was “a joke” and then went a little further: “I think that’s a lot of exaggeration. I like ‘Honky Tonk Woman’ but I think Mick is a joke. I always thought so. I enjoy it, I’ll probably go see his movies and all, like everyone else, but I really think it’s a joke.”.
“I was always very respectful of Mick and the Stones, but he said a lot of harsh things about the Beatles, which hurts me, because you know, I can criticize the Beatles, but I can’t let Mick Jagger do it. I’d like to just list what we did and what they did two months later on every damn album. Every damn thing we did, Mick did exactly the same thing: he imitates us“He added furiously.
“And I wish one of you damn people would point it out. Their Satanic Majesties Request is Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club band. ‘We Love You’, that’s the most fucked up shit, that’s ‘All You Need Is Love’. “The implication that the Stones are like revolutionaries and that the Beatles weren’t bothers me,” she said.
Ginger Baker
The former Cream drummer once told Rolling Stone: “I won’t come within ten miles of a Rolling Stones concert. They are not good musicians, that’s why. The best musician of the Stones is Charlie Watts by far,” he said. And he added: “I hate them and always have. Mick Jagger is a musical idiot. It is true that he is an economic genius. Most of them are fucking idiots”.
Lemmy Kilmister
“The Rolling Stones were mama’s boys”, stated the late Motörhead leader in his memoirs, White Line Fever. “They were all university students from the outskirts of London who went to starve in London, but it was by choice, to give themselves a kind of aura of disrespect.”
Furthermore, Lemmy did not hesitate to compare Jagger and his people with the Beatles, whom he considered the winners of the historic duel. “I liked the Stones, but they were never close to the Beatles, neither for the humor, nor for the originality, nor for the songs, nor for the presentation. The only thing they had was Mick Jagger dancing. I went to see the Rolling Stones in the park and they were horrible, completely out of tune.“, he stated.
