Presenting a portfolio from the archives of Interview of 4 iconic brits captured live on Red Hot Tape

08/81 MICK JAGGER BY ANDY WARHOLD & PALS

TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1981, 6:00 p.m., NEW YORK: ANDY WARHOL and BOB COLACELLO are visiting MICK JAGGER at his Central Park West apartment. ROLLING STONES drummer CHARLIE WATTS is also present.

BOB COLACELLO: So what are you doing tonight, just going back to work?

MICK: Yes. I'm doing the final mix of the record in the studio.

BC: Do you have a title for the album?

MICK: It might be called Tattoo. It depends on the cover.

BC: Do you have any tattoos?

MICK: No, I'm too cowardly. Have you got one?

BC: No, I'm too cowardly.

MICK: It would be nice to have a picture of a tattooed cock on the back. Was it you who ran those pictures? Remember in the days of the S&M craze?

ANDY WARHOL: No.

MICK: Down at the Anvil and all of that ...

BC: No, we never really got into the S&M craze.

MICK: Mmm. Didn't think it would sell, huh?

AW: Well, I saw a boy yesterday ... I go cruising every day now to a different part of New York. Yesterday I went just to look at cars--Cadillacs and Jeeps--over on Tenth Avenue and 66th Street. Then we walked down to the Munson Diner.

MICK: Where is that?

AW: Forty-ninth Street and Tenth Avenue. It was so much fun to sit in a real diner with real food and real truckers.

MICK: Did you pick anyone up, Andy?

AW: No, but I saw a guy with a big spider on his arm.

MICK: A real one or a tattooed one?

AW: A tattooed spider, really big. This morning I went to another area--the bus terminal.

BC: Port Authority?

AW: Yes, it's so nutty. We had lunch at Walgreen's with the real people. It's fun to do stuff with the real people.

BC: So are you and Keith writing songs for the new album?

MICK: All that is done. I'm just editing. Some of the songs are just too long. I get bored after four minutes, don't you, unless you're dancing? I don't like listening because it's also repetitive music, rock and roll and all that.

BC: Do you think you could do something other than rock and roll? Something classical?

MICK: I couldn't possibly do that.

AW: We were trying to think up a name for [cover girl] Maura Moynihan's new group. Do you have a name for a good girl group?

MICK: The Twisted Hearts.

AW: Oh, I'm a model now with Zoli. I've worked three jobs.

MICK: You should do a commercial, that's the funniest thing to do. Maybe I could do a Tampax one, that's what I'd really like to do.

BC: Mick Jagger, the Tampax boy for 1982.

MICK: I could be swimming in this pool and there're all these dirty floating Tampaxes. I think Andy should do one for the Walkman. Andy cruising the real people with his Walkman.

AW: I am doing Sony, a print ad.

MICK: I think Andy would be good on TV, I think he's lost in print.

BC: He's holding out for his own TV show. You'd be good in TV ads, Mick.

MICK: I was going to do Kirin Beer once. It's very respectable now. Now it's okay to do all those capitalistic things when it wasn't okay 20 years ago.

AW: There's so much television in New York with cable....

MICK: Everyone should get their own TV show on cable. Isn't that something like what you said once.

BC: "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes."

MICK: Well, they'll also have their own TV show on their own channel.

AW: That's a great idea. (Charlie enters the room to ask where the mixing studio is)

MICK: It's on Fifty-first Street between Ninth and Tenth.

AW: Oh, then you're near the Munson Diner. It's open 24 hours. It's really good food.

MICK: I'm near the Munson Diner. Hi, I'm a friend of Andy's. Can I sit down? You must be the real people he's been telling me about. Oh God, it's so wonderful to meet you. And oh, they're using a knife and a fork. That's a real hamburger you're eating and that's real snot in your nose. It's a whole alternate way of life, huh? AW: It is.

BC: Maybe I should just go to Tenth Avenue instead of the Amazon.

MICK: Oh, you'll love the Amazon. You've got to see it, it's just wonderful.

BC: I figure it's my last chance to see nature.

MICK: You won't see nature as we know it. It's miles of trees. Be careful when you go on those planes. Make sure the propeller is on properly.

AW: How do you find that out?

MICK: Where have you been hanging out all these years? I wanted to weigh everything and they don't give a shit. They made us put a parachute on. But they fly on the river so if you fall in it's not so bad.

BC: You could fall on a crocodile though.

MICK: I know, the crocodiles are strange. Be careful, don't swim in the river because there are these things that go inside your cock.

AW: No, that's if your peeing. Before your pee even reaches the ground the bug can crawl up your pee.

BC: So what do you do, pee upwards?

MICK: Yes, you pee upwards. Always pee upwards and always sit with your parachute on.

01/98 ELTON JOHN BY NEIL TENNANT

NEIL TENNANT: When did you start getting interested in modern art?

ELTON JOHN: I knew nothing about art, actually, until I started collecting it. I began with art nouveau in the early '70s, and when I bought the place in Atlanta about six years ago, I started to buy really contemporary art--I have big high ceilings there, so I was able to get bigger canvases. In Atlanta I started collecting photography in a big way, too. That's when I really started collecting.