Yeah, by 1989, Mick was reaching 50 years old and the band hadn’t performed or rehearsed much in over 8 years since their celebrated 1981 US/world tour and in fact, had experienced some serious creative differences, personality conflicts between Jagger and Richards that very nearly broke up the band. In retrospect, it’s actually a bit of a miracle the band didn’t break up in the late 80’s due to all these variable tensions that had persisted for years.