“It was the bad end of the drug-taking…”

“I produced the worst-ever Rolling Stones album. But basically, I couldn’t turn down the Rolling Stones. A real man would never turn down the chance of working with legends like them. But that doesn’t mean I knew it was going to be any good whatsoever. You need a good tailwind to make a great record, and there wasn’t a great tailwind with the Stones at that point. There was too much bitterness. It was the bad end of the drug-taking. It was just messy, but I had to do it. … I enjoyed working with them and it was great fun hanging out with Keith Richards.”

- pladeproducer Steve Lillywhite til A.V. Club om ‘Dirty Work’ fra 1986.