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What Makes The Stones' Arrogance So Divine Is That We All Believe That Long Ago And Far Away They Weren't Rich And Famous But Poor And Struggling, Just Like Us.

James Taylor May Be An All-american Boy But He Isn't Horatio Alger, And The Lionizing Of Many Rock Stars By The Rock Press Has As Much To Do With Old Fashioned Rags-to-riches Stories As Does The Straight Culture's Deification Of Its Idols.

'sing It Again Rod' Touches All The Solo Bases Since Stewart's Departure From The Jeff Beck Band, Wherein He Cut His Teeth On American Audiences For $75 A Week Plus Expenses, And Wisely Ignores His Generally Inferior Work With The Faces.

On First Listening, Joni Mitchell's 'court And Spark,' The First Truly Great Pop Album Of 1974, Sounds Surprisingly Light; By The Third Or Fourth Listening, It Reveals Its Underlying Tensions.

While The Beatles Always Had George Martin Around To Clean Up Their Act, The Rolling Stones Had Andrew Loog Oldham To Coarsen Theirs.