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Stones'
50th anniversary concert - with conviction not nostalgia
"Many
of us have these songs so embedded in us that we forget the
Stones wrote them; to hear them brought alive - with conviction,
not nostalgia - was special indeed."
" . . they have passed the wrinkly rocker stage, passed
the national treasure stage and become an indestructible inevitability!"
See our earlier
NEWS item on the Times review of Dolly Parton's "Better
Day Tour" in August 2011 - an uplifting experience! More
Priapic - the OED says "phallic"
Times review
Acknowledgment:
Times review and photo
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The
Times review of the Rolling Stones concert last
night is a gem - whilst acknowledging it was a masterful
and enjoyable performance, Will Hodgkinson's expresses
the sheer pleasure of the music and the performance,
not least Mick Jagger who "can
still dance like a priapic imp at the age of 69
or Keith Richard who can overdose on heroin and
fall out of a coconut tree and still be able |
to
blast into that glorious open G riff to Brown Sugar,
but at the O2 we were witness
to a former R&B covers band from South London
becoming the greatest survival story since the cockroach."
Ouch!
Will Hodgkinson adds "the
Stones have kept going for so long, surviving everything
from drug busts to former wives, that they have
passed the wrinkly rocker stage, passed the national
treasure stage and become an indestructible inevitability!"
and then "the older songs
brought the band alive, Bill Wyman played on It's
Only Rock'n'Roll looking exactly the same as he
did when he was in the band: like a council official
making an inspection of noise levels!"
The review ends with a masterful stroke - "It
goes against the laws of nature and reason, but
this really did feel like a band at the height of
its powers, 50 years young and still knocking them
dead." Review |
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