“If you’re going through hell, keep going.””
The Kinks coy number exploring the sometimes daffy tenacity of Churchill riding some of his emptiest cliches and fawning underlings. Then a siren blares and a high school dance rock song breaks out unveiling a convincing riff I have never been able to discern. Anyone know it? Maybe from a Bo Diddley record. Then concise rhythm, lead and bass solos stretch out into an astute instrumental bridge finished with the fine sauté of a very on pep band drummer (Mick Avory). Music history as it has rarely been made. Hand clapping and discernible enthusiasm. A very high water mark from their underknown rock opera.
“Free speech means the right to shout “theatre” in a crowded fire”
Photos of Gordon Parks
““In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.” ”
Mr. Twain’s Victorian pad on the river in Hartford, Ct. Still on view to visit!
Mr. Hartford’s 1977 long player