The Rolling Stones are going on tour again. For this to happen, Keith Richards had to apologize to Mick Jagger for things Richards wrote about Jagger in his 2011 autobiography, Life.

Rolling Stone (the publication, not a stray member of the band) got an exclusive interview that delves into this. Sadly, they did not get the wording of Richards’s apology, so we do not know if he just said “Sorry for everything, mate,” or “I’m sorry for telling the world I call you Brenda. I shouldn’t have written that I find you unbearable and a social climber with a swollen head. I’m sorry I refused to take out the part about you having a voice coach. And I’m sorry about saying you have a tiny todger. ”

Jagger said “He did apologize, to my face.” (Note: not on Twitter.) “So you have to put all that sort of stuff away. Water under the bridge, really. Hopefully, you know, we can carry on working.”

Water under the bridge.

We hope the apology was better than Richards’s later remarks to interviewer Brian Hiatt. “It was something to get out of the bloody way so we could get the band on the road. You know, I’ll say sorry to God if you like. I don’t give a shit.” (We are still puzzling over this theological note.) “I said, ‘Look forward, brother, look forward.’” That’s obnoxious, since it’s not for the one who commits the offense to tell the offended party how to feel.

You get to know about each other’s todgers one way or another.

Richards compares his relationship with Jagger to a 50-year marriage. “You can have your little spats here and there, and we don’t mind having them in public occasionally. We can’t get divorced – we’re doing it for the kids!”

Who know what goes on in a marriage? Whatever Richards said, it was good enough for Jagger. Probably “Look forward, Brenda, look forward.”