Jim Lockhart

This is a legendary tale.

And they wanted a zip.

They were featuring part of Joe D'Alessandro's Anatomy and they needed a zip.

A real live zip.

A real live metal zip in the cover.

And Amad Erdogan, who is, you know, tight with a shillen, sensibly enough, and he was the managing director of Atlantic, didn't want to pay the money for a zip and was playing hardball.

And so...

The story is that Jagger waltzed in, because what else did Jagger every day except waltz in, waving, helping him eat and sorry to part.

And we'd just signed with them and said, here's my view, Amit.

If a cockamamie band from Ireland can get a cover like this, we can have a zip.

And so the zip was made.

There is the question of whether the bench warrant from The Hague for crimes against fashion is still operative or whether this country…

Yeah, I mean, there were a lot of stuff that happened.

A lot of it really unrepeatable on air.

Most of it just about horseless being basically eejits.

Yeah, Johnny loved... Johnny never really... His heart never really left Shannon.