“Waiting on a Friend” suggests in touching fashion that the reliability of friendship is far preferable to the instability of romance. In typically counterintuitive Rolling Stones fashion, the band finished recording the song at a time when band relations were extremely strained, especially between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the twin artistic poles of the […]
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