Word: mick
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...superman. But he is certainly a one-man music factory with a rich bag of assorted talents. He plays piano with the urbane primitivism of a Glenn Gould thumping out variations on rock 'n' roll's Jerry Lee Lewis. His singing style ranges from a Mick Jagger snarl to a delicate, insinuating plaint that recalls Jose Feliciano. As a composer, John has already turned out more than a dozen of the year's best songs-in styles that include country rock, country blues, just plain country, gospel, soft rock and classical rock...
Round up Wolfe's previous subjects if you will, and you find they are all either outlaws or outcasts. Murray the K, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Mick Jagger, Cassius Clay, Junior Johnson, Carol Doda, Natalie Wood, Ken Kesey and Neal Cassady- even, within such a context, Hugh Hefner. Certainly all worthy of Who's Who, but hardly New York's Four Hundred. That most of the personalities on Wolfe's little list are also celebrities is a testament to the sheer force of their outlandishness. They've forced fame to conform to their standards: their success the result of their...
...curls upward a bit, and his eyelids tend toward an insolent droop, but there is simply no energy left. It's more than generation gap that places the man closer to Dean Martin and Tom Jo?es than any current rock performer. Was this pathetic old man the fifties' Mick Jagger? Is this then the performer's grand finale...
Divorced. Marianne Faithfull, 23, longtime girl friend of the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger; by John Dunbar, 27, American artist and writer; on uncontested grounds of adultery; after five years of marriage, one child; in London. The divorce does not become final for at least three months...
Ringo in Nashville? The idea seems as logical as Mick Jagger at Glyndebourne. In truth, Ringo poses no immediate threat to such country greats as Eddy Arnold or Johnny Cash. Yet his straightforward, unadorned singing style-customarily sure death in the quasi-Baroque world of rock-turns out to be just the thing for the classic country songs devoted to simple words, gentle irony and love gone haywire. In a song called Silent Homecoming, Ringo does emulate deep-throated Cash a bit too much. His baritone is occasionally too beery. But his cornhusky mastery of the album's title...