The irony couldn’t be greater. You’ve spent a whole lifetime with Mick, since the “dinosaur days,” as you like to joke, and yet… the music that turned him into a legend has never really convinced you. It’s no secret. It never was.

There you are, sitting next to him during the interview. The journalist smiles, almost in disbelief, as he repeats your words as if they were pure gold: “Is it true that you said The Rolling Stones put you to sleep?”

Mick turns his face toward you, with that half-smile of mischief he’s carried for decades. And that you also said you prefer The Beatles.

The cameras capture that glorious instant. The journalist lets out a nervous laugh, as if expecting Mick to be offended. But he simply laughs with you, shaking his head.

“Like, for example, ‘This is not rock and roll,’”