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Sep 16, 2021
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CHARLIE IS OUR DARLING
Ever since the first show I saw with Mom in Denver in ’94 (the amazing culmination of all the years listening to her scratchy vinyls) to the last with Pop in Seattle in 2019, a Stones concert was like a grand pagan spectacle, a throwback to a more legendary, sophisticated time in rock and pop music. But beneath the massed woo-woos on “Sympathy For The Devil”, the fireworks, video-screens and Vegas glare, Charlie Watts was the dignified centre. During band introductions he was always introduced last, to the loudest cheers and applause, Keith and Ronnie genuflecting
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