Wednesday September 29, 2021 “Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)” Rolling Stones

Another nonsense title, but this time about really dark and serious nonsense from the Rolling Stones.

Not based on true incidents according to Mick Jagger who said in a 2020 interview that he can't remember any specific inspiration. "It's the timing," he said. "New York is a violent place. America is a heavy-handed police state. We can go back 100 years and it's probably even heavier. Obviously, all that time ago it was heavy in a lot of places, heavy now and heavy before."

And today we might add 'heavy still.’

The Rolling Stones have been labeled as the “World’s Greatest Rock & Roll Band”, perhaps by themselves, and while their records weren't always blockbusters, they were never less than the most visible band of their era.  And always bear in mind that while many rock & rollers pride themselves with their lack of education, Mick Jagger is a graduate of the London School of Economics and has always had the business side of the Rolling Stones in his sight.

In the beginning there were six, not five Rolling Stones:  Mick, Keith. Charlie Watts, Brain Jones, Bill Wyman and keyboardist Ian Stewart.  Stewart toured constantly with Stones but was not considered as attractive enough to be front stage by the Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham.

Worse looking than Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts or Keith Richards...

Stay safe and well...and enjoy this top twenty song from the Stones number one album Goats Head Soup.

The police in New York City

They chased a boy right through the park

And in a case of mistaken identity

The put a bullet through his heart

Heart breakers with your forty four

I want to tear your world apart

You heart breaker with your forty four

I want to tear your world a part

A ten year old girl on a street corner

Sticking needles in her arm

She died in the dirt of an alleyway

Her mother said she had no chance, no chance!

Heart breaker, heart breaker

She stuck the pins right in her heart

Heart breaker, pain maker

Stole the love right out of you heart

Oh yeah, oh yeah

Want to tear your world apart

Oh yeah, oh yeah

Want to tear your world apart

Heart breaker, heart breaker

You stole the love right out of my heart

Heart breaker, heart breaker

I want to tear that world

I want to tear that world

I want to tear that world apart

Heart breaker, heart breaker

Stone love, stone love

Oh yeah, oh yeah

Heartbreaker, heartbreaker

Want to tear that world apart

Doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo

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