Exclusive Madison Square Garden Backstage Interview With Mick Jagger! | The Dick Cavett Show

In a special first, Dick Cavett heads backstage to interview Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones ahead of their performance at Madison Square Garden!

What's your favorite Rolling Stones song? 🎶

Date aired - August 4th, 1972 - The Rolling Stones

Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.

His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.

Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.

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[TheDickCavettShow]

What's your favorite Rolling Stones song? 🎶

[briansilkworth]

Jagger was so respectful and courteous towards Cavett — a brief glimpse into a different time.

[oriraykai]

Jagger is a very astute person. He knew this would be a time capsule moment and was on his best behavior.

[michaelsheedy]

Jagger was/is quite the performer on stage. Lots of rockers back then like Bowie and Stewart were great performers. I was lucky to see them back in the 70's at Cobo Arena and Fisher Theater in Detroit.

[amoh]

Yes I agree Jagger was very courteous and respectful, he seems very intelligent and mature for his age, an old soul is the expression I think. I think musicians tend to impersonate immature wild things on stage, but off stage they're completely the opposite.
I congratulate Cavett on maintaining his professional composure and cool in such an erratic environment 😊

[Shikta-poobah]

You gotta love the irony of talking down on scalpers for charging $75 a ticket, when today (and pretty much for the last 30 years) $75 won’t even get you into the nosebleed seats at a Stones concert. Plus, this was back when they were in their prime.

[GR_BackingTracks]

Dick Cavett had such an "in" with all the rockers of the late '60s and early '70s...
I suppose I should read his book "Brief Encounters."

[jeantetreault]

This is kind of an unusual interview. Lol! How can you approach a well known famous british rock star, with a carot in your hand inside of a dressing room? 🤣🤣

[MrTexxan]

I drove him when i was a chauffeur many years ago.
He drug his babys carrier on the ground into the hotel like a true rock star

[nmb]

Looks around 1976, "Black and Blue" tour.

[rockit]

75.00 Man I wish that were today's prices.

[michaelwilson]

Scalping? Imagine if they could look into the future and see the prices of Springsteen tickets these days. Or Taylor Swift even before a scalper gets hold of them.

[idolhanz]

June 1972....hurricane agnes, the watergate..stones tour starts out west...I return to the US after 5 years overseas..

[eddiemachetti]

Dick was a bit of a goober. He was respectful but he didn’t get to ask what he really wanted to ask. He asked the stuff to please the station he worked for. It seems.

[michaelmcdonald]

I could MAYBE narrow it down to a top 15. Maybe.

[aquamarine]

Cavett is so awkward, yet somehow good at this. At least a refreshing change from other entertainment interviewers. He presents as a public intellectual, and is always trying to give his subjects and chance to show how rock stars aren't as dumb as we assume. But it still seems forced and cringe-y, somehow.

[janeeyre]

What stones tune is playing in the background?

[rogerkrane]

Make it together was there so it had to be before 1975

[nicolamcguinness]

Prince Harry talk about mental healths

[thomashusted]

Cavett seemed very unprepared for the interview so his questions were not very good at all.