Rolling into Discord with a Single Song
Steve Turner, Times, The, 25 February 1991
With the release next month of the song High Wire, The Rolling Stones will become the first big rock act to refer directly to the Gulf War in a single. But such is the sensitivity of the subject that even though nobody has heard the record yet, an attack on its contents has already begun.
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