Rolling Stones Starting To Mellow
Keith Altham, NME, 16 September 1967
THE TIMES THEY have a-changed, as Bob Dylan predicted and with them the Rolling Stones. There was a time when one approached a Mick Jagger-Keith Richard interview with fear and trepidation, as they lashed the backs of the establishment. Today they are older, perhaps wiser and certainly kinder to the world around them.
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