Mick Jagger: I Can Get It Up, But I Can't Get It Down
Dave Marsh, Creem, August 1975
OF COURSE, Mick Jagger was talking about flying the twin-engine Cessna which had brought him into the Marine Air Terminal in New York's LaGuardia Airport from Montauk, 120 miles away at the eastern tip of Long Island and which, he said, he had piloted himself. "We were stacked up for half an hour, circling at 1800 feet. We just missed the twin towers [of the World Trade Center]."
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