You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Other than its sense of rhythm, it's music by the tone-deaf for the tone-deaf.

Some things get better with age. Like me

Chemistry was one of those subjects in school that I was never good at… but I think it's the unknown bit - the mysterious spark - that does it. It's the same with the Stones. I mean, line 'em up against a wall, and they're the most unlikely good rock 'n' roll band that you could find!… There's something to be said for a certain chemistry between people that makes for a certain kind of music.