Mick Jagger sat athletically on the floor of the Rolling Stones’ New York office listening to The Best of Ray Charles. Next door, Keith Richard, nattily dressed in a white suit, was doing an interview with a gentleman from The Toronto Star. His eight-yearold son Marlon ran up and down the corridor playing with some promotional red lips and chattering teeth that said: “Love You Live.”

Three days later, the scene had changed slightly, The Best of Ray Charles sat silently on the office turntable. The man from Toronto had been replaced by a reporter from the Montreal Gazette, who was conducting a joint interview with the notorious Glimmer Twins.