"Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "
Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)"'s lyrics relate two stories: one is a story of New York City police shooting a boy because they mistook him for a bank robber, and the second of a ten-year-old girl who dies in an alley of a drug overdose. Neither of these events are known to be factual."
After telling the story of the police shooting the wrong person, Jagger sings,You heartbreaker, with your .44, I want to tear your world apart.
The .44 magnum cartridge had been recently made famous by the 1971 film Dirty Harry, in which Harry Callahan uses "the most powerful handgun in the world" to cleanse the streets of crime. The lyrics complement the music, which Rolling Stone magazine described as "urban R&B", due to its funk influence and prominent clavinet part (played by Billy Preston).
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Got it.
I had registered to comment on the New Yorker.
They are both owned by the same company.
Is it me or does The Rolling Stone's Drummer play like he is stuttering.
Pollo?
It's really annoying to watch him play. I want somebody to take the sticks from his hands, put him in a plane and drop him in a martial arts monastery somewhere in Japan... or something.
He also usually looks like he can barely tolerate all the noise the rest of them are making. Best I can tell he's always looked like that behind the drums.
I understand Ringo was not that much better either.
Um, I think you're confusing him with John Saxon.
See, I like Charlie's playing. But that's just me.
I do remember reading a review of some Stones's album from back when, and the critic seemed surprised that Charlie had bothered to tune his drums for the sessions.
Watts has expressed a love–hate attitude toward touring. In the Canadian magazine Maclean's, he told interviewer Brian Johnson that he has had a compulsive habit for decades of actually sketching every new hotel room he occupies – and its furnishings – immediately upon entering it.[citation needed] He stated that he keeps every sketch, but still doesn't know why he feels the compulsion to do this.
Interesting.
Charlie Watts is the Rolling Stones drummer.
Watts' personal life has outwardly appeared to be substantially quieter than those of his bandmates and many of his rock-and-roll colleagues; onstage, he seems to furnish a calm and amused counterpoint to his flamboyant bandmates. Ever faithful to his wife Shirley, Watts consistently refused sexual favours from groupies on the road; in Robert Greenfield's STP: A Journey Through America with The Rolling Stones, a documentary of the 1972 American Tour, it is noted that when the group was invited to the Playboy Mansion during that tour, Watts took advantage of Hugh Hefner's game room rather than frolic with the women.
It shows.
Something about his playing.
Lem is drunk again.
Quoting Wikipedia goes from evidence of plagiarism to evidence of drunkenness.
Duly noted.
Sorry I missed this thread last night. That song dates from the days when the strung-out Stones were stretching for new material, and were willing to steal and deceive. The best example is the story of the making of the signature tune "It's Only Rock And Roll (But I like It)." That song led to Mick Taylor's departure, Ronnie Woods' induction, a "covered-up" video on the inter tubes and a great revival of the Stones' fortunes.
News at 11.
Aren't they dead yet?
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