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...Rolling Stones, summer has been a whirlwind tour of the U.S. with a small army of technicians and groupies, to showcase a grab bag of gritty songs from a sizzling new album, Some Girls. On most of their dates, the Stones have rolled around ever-devilish Mick Jagger. But in Tucson, Ariz., the group added a bit of Sunbelt beauty to its act. Announced Jagger: "Now we're going to have a hometown girl sing with us and give her a chance." As any frequenter of Ronstadt's Hardware store in Tucson might have known, the guest...
...needn't have worried. The Stones are still the most professional and spectacular rock band in the world, and their new album, Some Girls, proves it. So what if they don't suffer as they did 15 years ago? The name of the band is not Mick of Assisi and the Rolling Saints, you know...
Beatty seems to have become the perpetual adolescent of the film industry--the Mick Jagger of the silver screen. His adamant refusal to grow up and be serious is admittedly rather charmingly contagious and his ebullient, almost Byronic self-absorption displayed in his latest performances is actually an amusing parody of the character type portrayed in Carly Simon's You're So Vain. Beatty was rumored to be the most likely candidate as the real-life model for the song's supremely narcissistic hero. He can't seem to shake off his reputation as an obsessed Casanova, pursuing several women...
...does not have the below-the-belt punch of Exile, despite low-down tunes and sulfurous lyrics. Keith Richards often sounds as if he is going to burn his fingers off on the guitar. Charlie Watts' drumming rolls all the way between a fondle and a mugging, and Mick Jagger sings with spirited cool. The problem may be that after all this time, the brimstone is dying out. The Stones, as ever, are looking to stun and outrage. But whether they are singing little anthems to S-M (When the Whip Comes Down), deflating stereotypes (Some Girls) or giving...
Ernest Hemingway had a character in The Sun Also Rises ask the hero, Jake Barnes, for irony and pity, irony and pity." Jake Barnes couldn't fill that request, but Mick Jagger does. This album is concerned with sex, love, dreams and survival. The greatest works of art are nearly always probing these themes, and Jagger's lyrics are honest because in their irony and pity they reflect the ambiguities that color these themes in reality. The Stones' music once again is as relentless and streamlined a vehicle for Jagger's visions as it was in 1972. Now the problem...