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This from the guy who had a hit song called Friends in Low Places and who on his previous album, The Chase, sang, "When the last child cries for a crust of bread . . . When there's shelter over the poorest head/ We shall be free." In Pieces is well named; only parts of this album are up to Brooks' fine standard...
Even after "Eileen" has faded out into sympathetic serenity, the best of the disc is far from over. The next track is a live take of "Gimme Shelter." Many will remember it as the lead-off on "Let It Bleed," the album that blared, "THIS RECORD SHOULD BE PLAYED LOUD" on the inside cover...
...lives off the same key for its duration excepting a brief solo. Forcing out the same sparse lyrics (predictably, the title) and guitar line for the five remaining minutes, this song offers few surprises. It does have some power, but it's not a ready-made warhorse like "Gimme Shelter" or "Sympathy for the Devil...
...Eileen" and "Wicked As It Seems" are both available on Richards' album, "Main Offender." Nevertheless, the "Eileen" supersingle is definitely worth buying in its own right if only for the "Gimme Shelter" Armageddon and "Key to the Highway." A diverse combination of songs like these doesn't come by too often for under ten bucks...
Tens of thousands of homeless children haunt the alleys and boulevards of Brazil's major cities. "The typical menino de rua," says Roberto Jose dos Santos, who runs the Sao Martinho shelter, "is black or mulatto with lots of brothers and sisters. There is an alcoholic mother or stepfather. He, and increasingly she, has grown up in a climate of violence in a suburban slum. No one is concerned about keeping him in school. There is no love or affection at home, and so he leaves...