Do you want a list of the dead and wounded?
Brian Jones was a bad swimmer as many limeys tend to be, island folk, say no more! Ian Stewart died as if he had worked as an accountant. True, so much of Keith Richards has been repaired and replaced that it is not him anymore, but they are certainly not The Ramones nor Badfinger. Not even The Beatles or The Who.
I never found the Stones threatening, they were hedonistic, outlawish and apolitical. And well-managed. Middle class boys singing about what an allegedly poor boy can or cannot do. One look at Jagger tells you that he took good care of himself, one look at Richards that he did not but had good genes and doctors. For Chrissakes, even Macca was in jail for drugs, does that make him threatening?
