Every Rolling Stone band member that left the band, save one (Mick Taylor, who got out after his 7 years arrangement with the beast 1968 to 75) died within a few short years. All who stayed in the band, is still yet living. So, they do a shot of cocaine and adrenochrome, just before showtime and zounds! They strut around for 2 hours for their "fans."
A former roadie for the band wrote a book back in the late 70s - which I read at the time - called UP AND DOWN WITH THE ROLLING STONES. In, there is a page in the book where he describes the stones getting blood replacement - for at the time, 5,000 dollars a pop, per man - and that it was a common practice among the successful rock stars. That was the 1970s. Keef himself once stated he had a contract out on the guys life. I don't know how that turned out.
I saw them in concert, at the Olympic stadium in Los Angeles in 1981 with ZZ top. They sounded terrible, but looked really good. ZZ Top, their opening act, blew them out of the music waters. The ticket was 12 dollars. Now a stones ticket, per seat, is near to 3000 dollars.
WOW.
Big money being a rock star. But you have to keep being a rock star. Something Led Zeppelin forgot and it cost them - they all turned into old men in less than 7 years, with hideous faces and grey hair, after they hung up their spurs in 1980. Look at Robert plant 1977 - looks quite youthful and very much energetic. Get a pic of him from 1987. He doesn't even look like himself, much less just a guy a few years older.
Okeeday?
(this is for all those readers who remember the stones when they were a thing, between 1964 and 1982.)
Their album cover TATTOO YOU, was about revealing what they really look like, without the etheric shield. FYI
