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...However, the work falls into the trap of assuming too much; it lacks ultimate authenticity because she is constructing a fantasy of homelessness without an underlying reality. According to Termini, the song itself was written as a lullaby to Peter, a homeless man she regularly saw sleeping in the doorway of the Unitarian Church on Church Street. He was ornery when she tried to talk to him. She wrote the song “in real good faith that he could do better,” and performed it at Club Passim, just a few doors down from where...
...stop on the group’s debut U.S. tour drowned out lead singer James Walsh with demands that the band cover The Strokes’ hit single, “Last Nite.” The recent release of Mick Jagger’s album Goddess in the Doorway and the re-release of “My Sweet Lord” following George Harrison’s death have recalled images of British rock and roll in its heyday and at the same time served as reminders of just how far British rock has come since its golden...
...depends whether your introduction to Mick Jagger’s new solo album, Goddess in The Doorway, was via the Lenny-Kravitz powered lead single, “God Gave Me Everything,” or the opening track off the album, “Visions of Paradise.” They’re both good old-fashioned rockers, and both preoccupied with religious imagery, neither of which should come as a surprise from the man who used to proclaim his “Sympathy For The Devil” on a nightly basis. And, indeed...
Goddess in the Doorway...
...while McCartney is writing music with more soul than he has been able to muster for some time, Jagger, one of rock's most distinctive vocalists, is settling into a bland rut on Goddess in the Doorway (Virgin). From the anthemic Joy to the discolike Everybody Getting High, the music is generally as soft and slick as last month's pumpkin pie, with Jagger's long-suffering voice, which still has a lot of charm, blanketed in 21st century synthesized beats and airy piano lines supplied in part by au courant collaborators like Wyclef Jean. The strongest feeling it drives...