Photo by Mark Hayward Archive/Redferns The Rolling Stones have returned with a new album, 'Foreign Tongues'. So to celebrate the band’s 25th studio... read more
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This song starts in Boston with a tea party and takes us to the other end of the American Revolution.
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Does he have beef with Gaga? Is he Sean Lennon's godfather? See if you can tell fact from fiction in the Elton John edition.
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Way back in the mists of time, - say 1970-ish I remember reading in a music journal (Prolly "Melody Maker") about the writer discovering a film somewhere entitled "Postcards of the Hanging" and speculating on Dylan sitting in some ancient movie theatre in Hibbing or Duluth and scribbling down the title for future reference in a song or something. The implication being that Dylan nicks ideas from other art works, (What else is new?). I'm not at all concerned about that, but for decades I have tried in vain to find the film so sardonically entitled. Anybody any ideas?...