Word: mick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ALBUM'S COVER-- a line drawing of Jackson at a grand piano, with a dark New York skyline in the background--tells much of the story. Jackson wrote and produced the album in New York, following a tradition of British fascination with the city shared by the likes of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. The effect of this extended stop in New York's is evident in vivid songs about paranoid street walkers, sexual deviants and smiling snipers...
...Chicago blues of Muddy Waters mysteriously had never caught on. The Beatles hadn't broken yet. "Trad" (traditional) jazz was what the middle class dudes convinced themselves they enjoyed. It was a mushy, updated version of Dixieland, believe it or not--very dull, very smooth. "Trad" didn't suite Mick Jagger or his friends Keith Richards and Brian Jones...
...tour, is yet another in a series of tributes to the group's spiritual homeland. (See review below.) As always, the music bears a mixture of sentiments: raucous enthusiasm tempered by ironic self-knowledge. The Stones appreciated the distance between themselves and the songs they sang from the start: Mick Jagger was not the first Mannish Boy, after...
John. Paul, George and Ringo created havoc because wherever they went; teenage girls were likely to collapse in great numbers or infiltrate hotels on search-and-scream missions. Mick Jagger was leading what appeared to be an outright insurrection. The Stones incited legitimate riots by 1965 and rarely got though more than four or five songs. Their fans either rushed the stage and destroyed their equipment or had so intimidated the hapless policemen sent to protect the performers that the power would be shut down...
...WINTER OF HAPPINESS, a summer of joys, That's what we want for Mick, Keef and the boys Not to mention Sorrento (that's Pat) Tom Dingman, Howie Hiatt and Ferrante (that's Cat). As well as Chris Darman, Henry Moore and Shere Hite, Walter Gilbert, Taffy Zimbler and Boston's Boss White. But try as we might we can only wish pain To Ed Meese, John Belloste and Arif Hussain. We know the first choice of the Cliffe's prexy Horner: A place in the sun, far from her dark corner. Tip's son and Dukakis will meet tough...