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(edit I see now it has already been posted, sorry!
I think the best joke is Bill returning as funeral director.
Jokes Rolling
'World's Greatest Rock Band' hauls out its best material
By BILL BRIOUX -- Toronto Sun
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Old rock stars don't fade away. They just turn into comedians.
The "World's Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Band" put on a show for TV critics yesterday to promote Rolling Stones: Live From Madison Square Garden, their first live concert TV event. The two-hour-and-fifteen-minute special airs Jan. 18 at 9 p.m. on HBO for all you illegal dish owners. The Movie Network may also air it in Canada, on a later date.
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ron Wood were in a giddy mood throughout the brief satellite interview, which originated from the floor of Montreal's Bell Centre, where they performed last night.
Guitarist Richards, who sported a green army shirt and a floppy cloth cap, was impeccably disheveled. Jagger sat up straight. Silver-haired drummer Watts fidgeted with his ear piece and looked bored.
"Are you bored or is that just your usual expression?" asked one scribe.
"Both," said Watts, who promptly went back to sleep.
'GONNA TURN UP'
Jagger, as usual, kept things somewhat on track. Yes, we're old, he admitted right off the bat. "Great, the age question to start with," he said. "All the milestones have been passed and surpassed."
Did they plan to do anything special for this show? "We're gonna turn up," said Richards.
Their current 40th anniversary tour, which passed through Toronto last summer, has seen the band perform different songs in different venues. Jagger admitted they hadn't done a set list for the Garden yet, but that they enjoy the venue and find it more intimate than your usual sports arena.
Jagger was asked about the upcoming free concert in Los Angeles to promote awareness for global warming. "We were asked to do it, decided that was a good cause and we would do it," he said.
The band might have welcomed a little global warming in Montreal.
"It's cold up here," said Richards.
'PINCH OF SALT'
The lively press conference went on like a tennis match between Margaret Dumont and The Marx Bros.
How will the concert in Houston on the 25th be different than the one in New York on the 18th, one critic asked. "It will be a few days later," said Richards.
Were they envious of Ozzy Osbourne and all the attention he's getting with his reality show?
"What's an Ozzy Osbourne," cracked Wood.
"It sounds painful," said Richards.
Would they like to star in their own reality show?
"Oh yeah, me first, please," said Richards.
Have we seen the last of former bandmate Bill Wyman?
"He could guest star," said Jagger. "He could come back as a funeral director," added Richards.
As for critics, the band seemed united in their assessment that there are too many of us. "You take all critics with a pinch of salt," said Jagger. "When they write really good things about you you think they're on to something. When they don't ..."
He must have meant music critics. "Of course, you're different," he added. (More on The Rolling Stones)
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