I Can’t Get No, Satisfaction
But I try, and I try and I try.
Seems The Stones are to play half-time at the Superbowl. Never watched the Superbowl. Never ate a hamburger neither.
Mick is funny when he wants to be:
Jagger did not disagree when it was proposed to him that 20 years ago the band wouldn’t have thought of doing a Super Bowl, but he said the cultural difference between America and the Stones has decreased.
“America has obviously changed since we came here,” Jagger said. “It’s almost unrecognizable, to be perfectly honest. It’s very hard to imagine what the U.S. was like 40 years ago. It wasn’t like this.
At least whatever cultural difference survived four decades of the Stones is so far from the time the girl with far away eyes made him run twenty red lights in a row… that I wonder, I just wonder… did any American ever write such insightful lyrics about England or Ireland as Jagger and Richards, Al Stewart and The Pogues have written about the States? Why not? I don’t think Simon and Garfunkle’s Homeward Bound quite captures the spirit of British Rail.
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[...] When I heard him discussing the fact that Homeward Bound had been written on Bradford Railway Station, I sent him a link to my blog on that topic, and he read it out, pretty much verbatim, to all of Scotland who were still awake and listening at 12:15am. [...]
By Executive Communications » My blog is read on the BBC! on 03.30.06 8:32 pm
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