Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World Cup hopes will have their obstacles, specifically the severe case of arthritis Kenney suffers in his right wrist because of several injuries there. After playing a lot of this past season in a cast, Kenney will have to have his arm fused to his hand with steel pins in the next few months since he no longer has use of his wrist...
...Stones know their audience, though. It's pretty much the same as it's always been, and it will be happy to see them. It will also be happy to know that the material on Steel Wheels is a lot like them -- up to date but fundamentally unchanged. The record kicks off with Sad Sad Sad, a creditable attempt to capture again the dynamics of the group's early sound, when the rhythm came in solid sheets and the lyrics sounded as if they were being spit out of a semiautomatic weapon. After that, it bustles through a very commercial...
...band right now," says Keith. "This new record's been miraculously fast for us. Mick and I are still holding our breath, saying, 'This can't last.' We pretty much wrote it in a month and laid down the basic tracks in about five weeks." To get the steel wheels on track so quickly, Jagger and Richards set aside those publicized vexations to find a common footing...
...easiest thing in the world to work with the Stones, and for me to work with Mick," Keith says. "Mick and I work together perfectly. It's when we're not working that we have problems." If Steel Wheels does not have the full surprise and thermal energy of a Stones classic like Let It Bleed or Exile on Main Street, at least it holds on to a sense of continuity. No advances maybe, but as another great songwriter put it, no retreat either...
After the war started, even Hitler was surprised at the suddenness of his success. Yet many of his seemingly invincible tanks were very lightly armored and carried no offensive weapons heavier than machine guns. More important, the German war machine depended heavily on imported supplies: Swedish steel, Rumanian oil, South African chromium. The blitzkrieg was in part a response to the fact that a Germany blockaded by Britain did not then have the resources to wage war for more than six months. In addition to his natural gall and guile, though, Hitler had one attribute indispensable to a commander: luck...