Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has apologized to Mick Jagger for derogatory comments he made in his 2010 memoir, “Life,” and the band has pushed their 50th reunion tour to 2013.
“Looking back at any career you are bound to recall both the highs and the lows,” Jagger said in a new interview for an upcoming documentary, reports Rolling Stone magazine. “In the 1980s for instance, Keith and I were not communicating very well. I got very involved with the business side of the Stones, mainly because I felt no one else was interested, but it’s plain now from the book that Keith felt excluded, which is a pity. Time I reckon to move on.”
Richards said: “Mick’s right. He and I have had conversations over the last year of a kind we have not had for an extremely long time, and that has been incredibly important to me. As far as the book goes, it was my story and it was very raw, as I meant it to be, but I know that some parts of it and some of the publicity really offended Mick, and I regret that.”
The Stones pushed their 50th reunion tour from this year to next and won’t play at the London Olympics.
“Basically, we’re just not ready,” Richards told Rolling Stone. Instead, 2013 is the new goal. “I have a feeling that’s more realistic,” he added.
Instead of a full-blown tour, the Stones are likely to camp out in a few major cities.
“For example, they’d do 10 nights at MSG, 10 nights at Staples, 10 nights at London’s O2 arena,” a concert-business source told Rolling Stone.
