The Rolling Stones: Jumping Jack Jagger
Geoffrey Cannon, Guardian, The, 14 October 1969
THE WIDENING gap between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones has been labelled as the contrast between aesthetics and politics. The difference between the two bands, for me, now, is much closer to that between sleeping and waking.
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