Word: mick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...softcovers available, usually tucked out of sight behind the best-selling cat display. Some of the best works are moderately priced oversized books on rock and roll. The Rolling Stones: The First Twenty Years incorporates the work of many rock writers and is a heavily-illustrated authoritative history of Mick, Keith and the boys from the beginning. A comprehensive collaborative effort, the book is a fascinating history; its innovative layout also makes it fun to read...
...blankets. Nor do cats, like Kliban's cartoon meat-loaves, respond with interest to human grownup preoccupations. They pay no mind to politics, opera, opinion polls, fuel-stingy autos or nuclear proliferation. They remain unimpressed by est, Kiwanis, cocaine and PBS. Felines yawn equally at the reputations of Mick Jagger and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Cats operate in an exclusive and maddening parabola of reality that can frustrate our lives or demand our attention and tune our sensibilities to more graceful things. While people argue about their courage, usefulness and affection, the cat has its own game to play...
...forced to confront a new problem: how to keep the act spontaneous and rebellious after more than a decade of two-four rhythm. The familiar events are all thrown in, but portrayed from new and interesting angles. The drug bust at Redlands, the tragedy at Altamont, the transition from Mick Taylor to Ron Wood, the triumphant American tours and the countless, faceless women--it's all here...
...times where Ian doesn't outweigh Mick, and Mick doesn't outweigh Ian, we see What Might Have Been. "Central Park N West" is classic Hunter nonsense, and "(We Don't Want no) Gun Control" is an excellent, and singalong, riveting, sarcastic attack on the NRA. It's a shame that Hunter can't tell the difference between singing about handguns and old records; maybe a continued association with the Clash will push him toward musical complexity and moral integrity...
...kooks--"Art Lover" is a man who loves to watch little girls in the park, and "Killer's Eyes" asks the musical question, what's it like to live in hell every day? All of which is to say, the Kinks are alive and kicking as much as Mick and Co., and they deigned to play Boston, too. Mick Jagger is still singing to impress; Ray Davies sings to teach and laugh...