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The Rolling Stones: Live at Leicester

Simon Frith, Creem, September 1976

ACCORDING TO PATTI SMITH, Mick Jagger is the best dancer since Nijinsky. Well I ain't ever seen Nijinsky dance (though I did see him win the Derby) but I saw Mick Jagger for the first time last week and he didn't even dance as well as Billy Preston, who slid across the stage to humiliate whitey just like James Brown on the T.A.M.I. show all those years ago.

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