KEITH RICHARDS and USCHI OBERMAIER, 1975

“With Uschi Obermaier, especially at that time, it was lust, pure and simple. And then she grew on me and entered my heart. We’d draw pictures or use sign language. But even if we couldn’t talk to each other, I’d found a friend. As simple as that, really. And I loved her dearly. We dabbled around off and on with each other in the ’70s, and then she took off with her new love, boyfriend Dieter Bockhorn, to Afghanistan, and she slipped from my mind and my heart. And then I heard that she’d died, of a miscarriage somewhere in Turkey. Which was almost true, but it turned out she was smarter than that. I found out the real story many years later on a beach in Mexico, on the most important day of my life.”

The Minutemen's 3rd studio album was released on 3 July 1984.

The band had recorded an album's worth of material in the fall of 1983, but after hearing advanced recordings of labelmates Hüsker Dü's double album Zen Arcade (which would be released on 1 July 1984), the Minutemen decided to also record a double album's worth of music (writing "Take that Hüskers!" in the liner notes).

Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Conquest of the Mountain, 1939