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Finger Pointing Songs: part 3. The Rolling Stones. Or, Wife Beating Man.

The shadow that Bob Dylan cast over the sixties wasn’t only long and broad, it was dark and cold.  Once he’d broken through, any number of scruffy young ‘poets’ came out of the woodwork and started telling it like it was.  Social justice songs were back on the agenda but that was before his performance…

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Finger Pointing Songs: part 2. The Kinks. Or, A Respecter Calls. Or, It’s A Shame About Ray.

“Pity is easy, but it’s difficult to care,” Ray Davies. I like things to make sense and generally, to me at least, they don’t.  I look for logic and I look for rationality in everyday life and, when I can’t find much, I can get a bit maudlin.  So, what I’m doing here – realistically…

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