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The Godfather: Peter Corris on the Rolling Stones

The Godfather: Peter Corris on the Rolling Stones

by NRB | 20 Jan 2017 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 1 comment

When I first heard the rasp of the Keith Richards riff kicking off ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ (1965), it was like hearing ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ (1956) for the first time. I knew that something fundamental had happened to popular music. The songs were an attack on...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on train songs

The Godfather: Peter Corris on train songs

by NRB | 5 Feb 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 4 comments

Responding to my column about execution songs, an NRB reader made some suggestions and remarked that, for train songs, there were ‘300 and counting’. I’m sure there is a list somewhere on the web but I’m contenting myself with a few that I’ve become aware of over the...
             

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