Rolling Stone Mick Jagger appeared on CNN's Larry King Live for a rare interview on May 18, 2010. The legendary rocker talked about the band, the album 'Exile on Main Street,; the 'Stones in Exile' documentary, life and drugs. The hour long interview on Larry King Live included videos and Stones music. Following are Jagger's somewhat surprising comments about drugs.
Mick Jagger said he always has to go through a special room when he travels to the United States because of a marijuana conviction of over 40 years ago. He gave a thoughtful reply to Larry King's question about legalizing drugs. Jagger said that even though he has taken drugs, he does not like to use drugs while on stage.
Larry King asking Mick Jagger whether he thought drugs should be legal.
Mick Jagger: Well, the whole question of legalizing drugs is fraught with -- someone asked me this the other day. And I said, you know, the -- I don't know if I got into trouble so maybe I think, but, you know, you usually try these things out in very small places. You know, like, so you try this in -- you know, like you try a new product out, you know, in a small kind of society or an island somewhere.
And in England they always try out new mobile phones in isle of man. They've got a captive society. So I said, you should try -- you should try the legalization of all drugs on the isle of man and see what happens.
Larry King asked if Jagger thought drugs would ever be legalized, pointing out that ever is a long time. Jagger's answer indicated that this is a subject that he has given thought to.
Mick Jagger: Ever is a long time. People -- you know, there is certainly a -- human beings seem to have a propensity to want to take drugs in some form, you know.
Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of marijuana and all these things, tobacco.
I don't know how many thousands of years. A long time, I'm sure. And so all these drugs, you know, have been -- it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.
So you have to -- I think you have to take that as red, you know. But then what do you do when it affects so many people's lives and not in a good way, you know. And then also, then you get a lot of violence at both ends of the scope.
So you get violence in some countries producing country violence. And then you get -- which like we have in Mexico now, and you get violence at the other end of people trying to obtain drugs.
So you've got that part of it is -- that's the part that speaks to some sort of legalization. Because that you would hope would help the violence from both ends of the supply line.
Larry King: : When it was in the group and it was famously reported about Keith Richards and the like, did it ever affect your performance?
Mick Jagger: Probably.
Larry King: You don't remember?
Mick Jagger : No, but -- no, but you don't -- I don't -- personally, you know, like performing taking drugs. I always think it's better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That's not saying I've never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been -- it didn't take me that long to realize that it wasn't a good thing.
You know, taking drugs on a recreational level is one thing. But taking them while you're working on a stage is, you know, I don't think it was that great.
It's the control factor. And the thing about being on stage, you really want to feel that you're sort of in control a lot, I think, because I don't think you want -- it's not a place where you want to be out of control.
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Comments
Larry, i just wish you would have interviewed Jerry Garcia at one point on your show. Mick Jagger answered your question about playing all these years on the road with, it's the AUDIENCE!! That's it, the ENERGY that a BAND FEELS from playing in front of people!! Jerry was an extremely articulate person, and it would have been a very interesting interview. By the way, i'm the jewish boy from Queens!!
The early Stones, for example, bank-rolled an occult (Satanic) sect call “The Process” and provided a base of operations for their
satanic evangelism. (Contact America radio broadcast, September 15, 1986) Later, Anita Pallenberg, an aspiring actress and
accomplished witch, became the companion of first Jagger and then Keith Richards. In July of 1979, at Richards’ Connecticut
estate, an 18-year-old boy shot himself while lying in Pallenberg’s bed. Investigating officers uncovered reports of weird rituals
and sacrificed animals that led up to the suicide. (Rock and Roll Babylon, Courage Books, 1982, Gary Herman, p. 125;
The Rolling Stones The First Twenty Years, Knopf, 1981, David Dalton, p. 148) The Stones were further involved with a cult film
maker and satanist Kenneth Anger. Jagger scored Anger’s film “Invocation of My Demon Brother” and Anita Pallenberg
sponsored “Lucifer Rising”, a movie that showed “the actual ceremonies to make Lucifer rise.” Not coincidentally, th
Not coincidentally, the film
starred rock singer Marianne Faithful, another ex-girlfriend of Mick Jagger. Stones, p.155) While in England, Anger worked
on a film dedicated to Aleister Crowley, called Lucifer Rising. The film brought together the Process (Satanic) Church, the Manson
Family cult, and the Rolling Stones. The music for the film was composed by Mick Jagger. Mick Jagger who was labeled by
Newsweek as the "Lucifer of Rock" and the "unholy roller," said: "There are black magicians who think we are acting as
unknown agents of Lucifer."
Process Church follower Marianne Faithfull went all the way to Egypt to participate in the film's depiction of a Black Mass. The part of Lucifer was played by a guitarist of a California rock group, Bobby Beausoleil. Beausoleil was a member of the Manson Family, and Anger's homosexual lover. A few months after filming under Anger's direction in England, Beausoleil returned to California to commit the first of the Manson family's series of gruesome murders. Beausoleil was later arrested and is now
serving a life sentence in prison along with Manson.
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