Thursday, November 13, 2025

the greatest rock-and-roll band in the world

 Recently I came across the Rolling Stones on Tik Tok, sandwiched in between cat videos.

Several, with Mick singing "Country Honk" - it's a variation on their song "Honky Tonk Women."

(One Comment said, "The Rolling Stones are more country than today's country music.")

        I first heard Rolling Stones music when I went to college in Boston.  In my freshman year, living in the dorm called Warren Towers, on Commonwealth Avenue, I listened to WBCN and heard a song:

...no one knows,

she comes and goes,

good-bye, Ruby Tuesday,

who could hang a name on you

when you change with every new day,

still, I'm gonna miss you...

        I told the guy I was dating that I heard this song I liked by The Beatles, called "Ruby Tuesday" - he corrected this immediately, (and with a sort of startled expression, as if I was a stranger who had just stepped out of a space capsule from another planet), saying, "That isn't the Beatles, it's the Rolling Stones."

        (All those English accents...)



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