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“Mick wanted me”

T was 3am in LA and Harvey Mandel was in bed when he got the call from Mick Jagger. The Stones were recording in Berlin, Mick Taylor had left and they needed a guitar player – could he get there the next day? That’s how Mandel found himself recording two songs (“Hot Stuff” and “Memory Motel”) for in what was essentially an audition for joining the

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