Mick Jagger: I Want To Go Out On A Limb
Barbara Charone, Crawdaddy!, August 1976
PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE hovering around the sedate Scottish hotel lobby like desperate fireflies. They have been buzzing about all afternoon, nervously checking shutter speeds and light meters, waiting for Mick Jagger to descend the majestic wooden staircase, hoping to snap one crisp, telling shot before he disappears in an elusive blur.
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