Mannish Boy Gets What He Needs

JANUARY 1978— Writer Barbara Charone catches the Big Mick days prior to the release of Love You Live and during a vital Stones period. Keith Richard—no "Richards" this year, thank you— was having legal problems in Canada and the possibility of a Stones without Keith was actually being discussed. We catch the band before their largest 70 s surge: Some Girls was in the planning and we all know what that would bring...

Mick Jagger sat athletically on the floor of the Rolling Stones’ New York office listening to The Best of Ray Charles. Next door, Keith Richard, nattily dressed in a white suit, was doing an interview with a gentleman from The Toronto Star. His eight-yearold son Marlon ran up and down the corridor playing with some promotional red lips and chattering teeth that said: “Love You Live.”