Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Goat's Head Soup

Thoughts on hearing "Hide Your Love," "Can You Hear the Music," "Dancin' With Mr. D," and "Silver Train":

On September 28th of this year, Jagger sang "Angie" in heavy makeup and leather boy drag on the ABC-TV/Don Kirshner Midnight Special. The night before, Mickey Rooney and Milton Berle sang some old musical comedy flytrap about what a hunk o' man Flo Ziegfeld was, and it was far more transexually elaborate. Berle's been doing this schtick for twenty years and Mick...had to wait for Alice Cooper and Bowie to make it all right.
-- Lester Bangs, Creem, December 1973.

I also know people who think "Winter" is poesy of a high caliber.

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