I Saw Rock N' Roll Future And

The Faces Do Not, As Some Have Recently Alleged, Play Badly. They Are More Than Competent, Especially At Creating A Mid-sixties Rolling Stones-styled Groove, As Their Excellent Version Of 'memphis' Proves.

Sly Stone Doesn't Make Good Albums: Only Good Records. His Style Is So Infinite And Revolves Around So Many Crucial Aspects That It Has Only Come Together Perfectly On A Handful Of His Singles.

The Rolling Stones Have Been The Best Of All Possible Worlds: They Have The Lack Of Pretension And Sentimentality Associated With The Blues, The Rawness And Toughness Of Hard Rock, And The Depth Which Always Makes You Feel That They Are In The Midst Of Saying Something. They Have Never Impressed Me As Being Kitsch.

The Title Song Of David Bowie's 'young Americans' Is One Of His Handful Of Classics, A Bizarre Mixture Of Social Comment, Run-on Lyric Style, English Pop And American Soul.

The Beatles Production Is Often So 'perfect' That It Sounds Computerized. 'sgt. Pepper' Really Does Sound Like It Took Four Months To Make.