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Heart kick it out chords12/3/2023 ![]() No other rock singer has ever been the subject of a leader column in the Times, decrying Jagger’s prison sentence for possession of drugs. The make up and headwear combo – “Guys, it’s 1967, we’ve got to look FAR OUT!” – in a clip from 2000 Light Years from Home.ġ8. His blank and affectless vocal – especially in the falsetto – on We Love You, which makes it sound as though he would gladly substitute the word “hate” instead, is a marvel.ġ7. And you don’t get more magnificently vain than Jagger singing “Tell me a story about how you adore me,” on Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?ġ6. “I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky.” Think the Stooges and the Velvets brought nihilism to music? Listen to Paint It, Black.ġ5. Not to defend songs such as Stupid Girl or Under My Thumb, but perhaps by saying the quiet part about rock – its misogyny – out loud, Jagger at least provoked a way of critically examining lyrics that continues to this day.ġ4. “When I’m watchin’ my TV / And a man comes on and tells me / How white my shirts can be / But, he can’t be a man ’cause he doesn’t smoke / The same cigarettes as me.” Amazing writing, given (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction was only the Stones’ second self-penned single.ġ3. For the sheer unbridled excitement and aggression of early Stones, listen to She Said Yeah: Jagger’s howling, yowling vocal backed by a band who sound like a rampaging army.ġ2. “Moronic, I think, is a better word,” he replied, deliciously.ġ1. “You do tend to present a yobbish image.” One interviewer suggested this to him as the Stones were breaking through. You wouldn’t believe a man jerking his leg could be so sexual.ġ0. ![]() Alternatively, look at his twitching-leg dance to their version of Chuck Berry’s Around and Around. See how Jagger stares the camera down, defying anyone to question him.ĩ. Look, too, at the clip of the Stones doing Little Red Rooster on Ready Steady Go! that year. Liam Gallagher isn’t fit to wear a parka in the presence of the amazing David Bailey shot of Jagger hugging his fur-lined hood to his face in 1964.Ĩ. 1964’s greatest hair … The Rolling Stones, l-r: Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman and Brian Jones. ![]()
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