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The Rolling Stones: Jumping Jack Jagger

Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 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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