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"  Photo: Mick Jagger; Getty Images Rock and roll journalist Lisa Robinson has spent her career documenting everyone from Mick and Keith to Madonna and Kanye. Her new book, There Goes Gravity out now, is a collection of stories culled from years on the road. Here, we give you a peek at some of the most revelatory reflections:  Photo: Debbie Harry; Getty Images On interfacing with rock stars: &amp;quot;In those days, no one went to a gym. We all smoked. No one went to Brooklyn; there was no reason to. We didn&amp;#039;t talk about money except to bemoan about not having any. No one\u2014ever\u2014mentioned, or cared about, the stock market\u2026No matter what time of day or night, if I had to call any musician, my opening line would be, &amp;#039;Did I wake you up?&amp;#039;&amp;quot;  Photo: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards; Getty Images Life with The Stones: &amp;quot;In Los Angeles, Bianca&amp;#039;s bathtub overflowed at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel and Annie took photos. In Toronto, [longtime Rolling Stones manager] Alan Dunn informed me that Mick had lost his jockstrap and asked if I had any &amp;quot;knickers&amp;quot; he could borrow. I lent Mick a pair of white, lacy, sheer bikini underpants from Henri Bendel, he wore them backwards\u2026&amp;quot;  Photo: Madonna; Getty Images On Madonna: &amp;quot;Steven [Meisel] and I were friends at the time. He was going to take the photo for Madonna&amp;#039;s Like a Virgin album cover. He wanted me to talk to her. He put her on the phone. &amp;quot;I want to rule the world!&amp;quot; she squealed. Those were literally the first\u2014and may have been the only\u2014words out of her mouth that day. Later, we did one interview, on July 25, 1984 at the Warner Brothers Records offices at Rockefeller Plaza. We talked for almost two hours. I recently listened back to that tape, and my impression remains the same now as it was then: to me, she seemed humorless, a determined woman who decided music was the way to go. It would help her rule the world. Madonna was the only one in the thousands of interviews that I did over four decades who gave me absolutely nothing. She talked for a long time. She told me her story. But it all sounded like a boilerplate.&amp;quot;  Photo: Kanye West and Taylor Swift; Getty Images On fluffing Kanye&amp;#039;s ego: &amp;quot;In 2009, when Kanye West left the country for a year following that infamous Taylor Swift MTV brouhaha, he emailed me that he was living in Rome where, he wrote, &amp;quot;There aren&amp;#039;t any paparazzi.&amp;#039; I emailed back that he ought to see La Dolce Vita, the Fellini movie that invented the world. When he was back in New York, I visited him on August 18, 2010 at Electric Lady studios in Greenwich Village. He told me that there was a time that he felt he&amp;#039;d replaced George Bush as the most hated man in America. I told him I thought he had spoken the truth: George Bush didn&amp;#039;t care about black people and Beyonc\u00E9&amp;#039;s video was better than Taylor&amp;#039;s.&amp;#039;&amp;quot;  Photo: Patti Smith; Getty Images Shopping (and party hopping) with Patti Smith: &amp;quot;One night in 1976 at the Bottom Line in New York City, the management of the club wouldn&amp;#039;t serve Patti [Smith] a drink while she was onstage. So she walked from the stage across the tables, took my hand, marched me up to the bar with her, had me order her a drink, and took it back with her onstage. Right in the middle of the show. Once during one of her concerts in Central Park, she asked me to shield her on the side of the stage so she could quickly urinate\u2014out in the open\u2014without anyone in the audience seeing her\u2026We talked a lot about clothes. Patti said she liked getting more money and buying more clothes: &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m a girl, after all,&amp;#039; she said, &amp;quot;but I can never find anything that I like\u2026I felt so great yesterday because I was in a store, looking at cashmere sweaters and the man was real snotty and he didn&amp;#039;t want me to look at them. So I just said, &amp;#039;Give me these two\u2014a green one and a black one\u2014don&amp;#039;t even bother to wrap them, just put them in a paper bag.&amp;#039; I turned over all my money; I gave him a hundred dollars. I felt so good.&amp;quot; Related: The Wisdom Of Patti Smith Related: Inside Debbie Harry&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;70s New York City Related: Annie Leibovitz Shoots Kevin McKidd for The Macallan Whisky Series "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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