"Star, Star" was one Stones song that got very little radio play.
God that was embarrassingly awful. The song originally called "Starfucker", with the Chuck Berry intro; the generic Stones rent-a-rocker tune and lyrics that a 13 year old boy would be ashamed of. But hindsight is a wonderful thing and at the time I was fully into the Stones as "Greatest Rock'n'Roll band in the world" mindset. (Given that the Beatles had split and the Kinks had become sidetracked into a mire of Concept album mediocrity). It took me until the end of the decade to see past the Stones "Emperor's new clothes" and when I did I dated the start of their demise back to Goats Head Soup. Not that they stopped making great songs, but the ratio per album plummeted. Anyway, we digress
"Star, Star" was one Stones song that got very little radio play.
God that was embarrassingly awful. The song originally called "Starfucker", with the Chuck Berry intro; the generic Stones rent-a-rocker tune and lyrics that a 13 year old boy would be ashamed of. But hindsight is a wonderful thing and at the time I was fully into the Stones as "Greatest Rock'n'Roll band in the world" mindset. (Given that the Beatles had split and the Kinks had become sidetracked into a mire of Concept album mediocrity). It took me until the end of the decade to see past the Stones "Emperor's new clothes" and when I did I dated the start of their demise back to Goats Head Soup. Not that they stopped making great songs, but the ratio per album plummeted. Anyway, we digress
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The song originally called "Starfucker", with the Chuck Berry intro; the generic Stones rent-a-rocker tune and lyrics that a 13 year old boy would be ashamed of.
But hindsight is a wonderful thing and at the time I was fully into the Stones as "Greatest Rock'n'Roll band in the world" mindset. (Given that the Beatles had split and the Kinks had become sidetracked into a mire of Concept album mediocrity).
It took me until the end of the decade to see past the Stones "Emperor's new clothes" and when I did I dated the start of their demise back to Goats Head Soup.
Not that they stopped making great songs, but the ratio per album plummeted.
Anyway, we digress