You could put Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on one side of the stage, and James Brown on the other, and you wouldn't even notice the others were there!

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it.

I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.