Its October 1977; and the Rolling Stones are in a Paris recording studio. Theyre under siege. Keith Richardss legal troubles after his arrest for heroin possession threaten the bands future; and the broad consensus among rock aficionados is that the band will never again reach the heights of Exile on Main Street.But Mick Jagger is writing lyrics inspired by the year he has just spent in New York City; where he was hanging out with the punks at CBGB and with the glitterati at Studio 54. And new bandmember Ron Wood is helping Richards recapture the two-guitar groove that the band had been missing since the Brian Jones era. The result? Some Girls; the bands response both to punk rock and to disco; an album that crackles with all the energy; decadence; and violence of New York in the 1970s. Weaving together the history of the band and the city; Cyrus R. K. Patell traces the genesis and legacy of the album that Jagger would later call the bands best since Let It Bleed.
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Review
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A narrow surveyBy Gary T.An overview of selected artworks related to military history; from antiquity through the Spanish Civil War; written from an "academic" perspective. Transits the time and values scales of artistic response; from the portrayal of heroic and noble actions represented during earlier ages; to artworks focusing exclusively on the horrors of war during the early twentieth century.Readers hoping for discussion of more recent wartime or combat art and artists; or expecting a presentation of a range of contemporary artistic responses; will be disappointed.
