![]() ![]() Mick recalls the school dance, however, with some horror. It was the one chance you had to meet and hold a girl. Back then, being able to do the quick-quick-slow was a necessity for a chap unless you wanted to end up a wallflower. I might add that our mother was a keen dancer, and Dad not too slack, either. I think I also heard the polka and foxtrot and the quickstep – all the dances Mum and Dad would do when they went out to the local gatherings.” Then on Thursday night I would go on my bike to the youth club in Crayford, where they had square-dancing Scottish reels and a caller, you know, take-your-partner thing, and that was more fun. “He would be on the old Light Programme, giving instructions, and then we would trot around the room attempting the steps, with me trying not to tread on Mum’s toes.” “Mum tried to teach me, and we waltzed around the living room to the strains of Victor Sylvester,” he remembers fondly. Naturally, I went back to basics and asked about where the dancing all began. I managed to have a few words with the older, busy brother after a long day at the office (I mean rehearsal rooms), in Paris. It’s supposed to be a rock show, not a Shakespeare play, I thought. “Sit down!” was the cry from behind from some well-heeled punter, and I thought about it for a second, and then continued. Things changed in the years since at one concert at Wembley I was seated in the old “royal box” when the band came on and, attempting to breathe some life into my own involvement, I stood up and began to dance. Even if you could see the heads of the band on that tiny stage, the main action was out on the floor, and the job of the Rolling Stones was to provide the music for the dancers. The leading mods would have their own fan clubs and show off the various new moves every Sunday night, when the band would perform there. I remember the scene years back down at the so-called Crawdaddy Club in Richmond. Maybe it’s not Fred Astaire, but it’s surely encouragement for us all to dance and move as that’s a great freedom for our bodies, trapped as they are within our own inhibitions and inability to move to the rhythm.Īs the Stones started out way back as an outfit to dance to, I thought it might be appropriate, given the recent interest in TV dance shows, to look at Mick’s connection with the art of hoofing and what makes him move. ![]() What to my eye separated the Rolling Stones from the other bands of their day in London, for instance the Yardbirds or even the Beatles, was their onstage moves, due in no small part to Mick’s gyrations which have to date achieved legendary status as moves in their own right. ![]()
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