Comments on: THE ROLLING STONES - “Little Red Rooster” http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2005/01/the-rolling-stones-little-red-rooster/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:28:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: rosie http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2005/01/the-rolling-stones-little-red-rooster/#comment-438592 rosie Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:25:12 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2005/01/the-rolling-stones-little-red-rooster/#comment-438592 And unlike <em>It's All Over Now</em> this one <em>is</em> a blues and much more authentic than Herman's Hermits. Willie Dixon wrote it, of course, and Howling Wolf first recorded it, and compared to that primeval recording Jagger sounds like a Kent surburbanite, which of course he is and it's never really gone away despite the legend. But ten-year-old me knew little or nothing about the blues and this was a big departure from what the Stones had been doing hitherto and I hated it. For all of a week, and then I loved it to bits. That's how all the best things in life go. This December would be when an enlightened Junior School teacher, Mrs Nicholson, introduced ten-year-old me and the rest of the class to a serious dose of TS Eliot. She'd been reading us Old Possum, and then zapped us with <em>Journey of the Magi</em> And unlike It’s All Over Now this one is a blues and much more authentic than Herman’s Hermits. Willie Dixon wrote it, of course, and Howling Wolf first recorded it, and compared to that primeval recording Jagger sounds like a Kent surburbanite, which of course he is and it’s never really gone away despite the legend.

But ten-year-old me knew little or nothing about the blues and this was a big departure from what the Stones had been doing hitherto and I hated it. For all of a week, and then I loved it to bits. That’s how all the best things in life go.

This December would be when an enlightened Junior School teacher, Mrs Nicholson, introduced ten-year-old me and the rest of the class to a serious dose of TS Eliot. She’d been reading us Old Possum, and then zapped us with Journey of the Magi

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