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Thanks for the piece on in your June issue. Of all the things I cherish turning 50 this year – the original , the late, lamented Roe v Wade, my ex’s husband – I have to put The Rolling Stones’ strangely cinematic gumbo masterpiece at the top of the list. No other British Invasion band ever managed such an authentic, soulful excavation of its American roots, and I doubt even today the remaining members know quite how they managed to pull it off, straddling time zones, addiction, the authorities and all sorts of idiosyncratic Stones madness. And of all the tributes I enjoyed that of Marshall Chess the most, having heard him speak at Chuck Berry’s memorial