Mick Jagger: The Lead "Stone" Rolls Into L.A.

MICK JAGGER, lead singer, main writer and best-known member of the Rolling Stones, sat in a corner of the empty Hollywood restaurant wearing a large floppy hat. It was, he said, his first visit to Los Angeles in two years. He had come with Charlie Watts and Stones producer Jimmy Miller to mix down the tapes of their next album, Beggar's Banquet, which should be released in about a month. It was mid-afternoon and he was bickering with the waitress about the relative freshness of the menu entries. He does not trust frozen food.