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...because, unlike the late lamented Beatles, they have always represented those elements of AM radio which are most incomprehensible and noisy to the ears of a Harvard professor or any comparable middle-aged fart. Andy Williams might have recorded "Ruby Tuesday" but he ain't gonna come near "Honky Tonk Women...
...barring acts of God or a radical takeover of city government, the transformation of Harvard Square is unstoppable. Whether the Class of '72 spends its fifth reunion in a honky-tonk tourist trap, or a thriving, accessible, commercially diverse Harvard Square, will be known quite soon
...improvising attracted so much attention that a local piano teacher waived his usual fees and took the prodigy in hand. After Joplin's mother died, the youngster had a falling out with his father and at 14 left home to take up the life of a honky-tonk pianist. He wandered to St. Louis, Chicago, and finally in 1894 to Sedalia, Mo., picking up work mostly in brothels and lowlife clubs...
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