![]() ![]() ![]() Richards began recording Talk Is Cheap in August 1987 in Quebec, Canada with further sessions taking place the following spring in Montserrat and Bermuda. Together, they wrote a number of songs for Talk Is Cheap, and Richards put together a band that included guitarist Waddy Wachtel, keyboardist Ivan Neville, bassist Charley Drayton, and Jordan that he dubbed “The X-Pensive Winos.” Jordan was a skilled musician and songwriter who had launched his career as a teenager playing in Stevie Wonder’s band and had subsequently lent his talents to sessions by a number of jazz, soul, and blues artists including Don Cherry, Taj Mahal, Patti Austin, and Cissy Houston. Richards enlisted the help of journeyman drummer Steve Jordan, who had appeared on the Stones’ Dirty Work album and was a member of the Saturday Night Live house band during the 1970s (he also toured with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi’s Blues Brothers band). In the wake of Jagger’s decision to pursue his solo career in opposition to the Stones’ fortunes, Richards decided to record his own solo LP. The last straw in the duo’s musical partnership was Jagger’s decision not to tour in support of Dirty Work after its release in early 1986, preferring to follow up on his relatively successful solo debut by starting to work on a follow-up album. While Jagger performed a solo set that summer at the Live Aid concert in Philadelphia, Richards and the Stones’ Ron Wood performed supporting Bob Dylan. When the band began recording Dirty Work, its first album under a new deal with CBS Records, Jagger was typically AWOL from the sessions, recording his vocals later (and alone). In pursuit of pop stardom, Jagger had released his first solo album, She’s the Boss, in early 1985 while Richards’ first priority was always the Stones. Keith Richards Talk Is Cheap, Virgin 1988īy the mid-1980s, the relationship between Rolling Stones’ frontman Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards was fraught with tension. ![]()
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