{"id":658202,"date":"2026-05-09T13:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/658202\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T13:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:09:09","slug":"the-rolling-stones-biographer-bob-spitz-on-keith-richards-and-mick-jagger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/658202\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Rolling Stones” Biographer Bob Spitz on Keith Richards and Mick Jagger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Current thinking says that 40-some percent of marriages in the United States end in divorce. For couples who make rock \u2019n\u2019 roll, the percentage is much higher\u2014and so are the stakes. Creative differences, drug abuse, financial tangles, and exhaustion on the road contribute to rocky relationships that make George and Martha in Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? seem like Couple of the Year. It\u2019s no wonder some of the greatest musical partnerships flame out: Lennon and McCartney,<\/a> Nicks<\/a> and Buckingham, Sonny and Cher, even brothers Don and Phil Everly.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s different about Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, a rock \u2019n\u2019 roll couple that proved an exception to the rule? Sixty-five years on, the odd couple has renewed their proverbial vows more times than they\u2019ve been busted for drugs. The Rolling Stones<\/a> continue to fill arenas for concerts (sponsored by A.A.R.P., no less) today because, at its heart, the saga of the Glimmer Twins turns out to be a simple love story.<\/p>\n

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