This morning I was trying to put the 29 year old Swedish-born Argentine folk singer Jose Gonzalez into some sort of non-musical context for tonight's LNMC. I was eager to feature either his first hit, "Heartbeats" or his cover of the Joy Division classic "Love Will Tear Us Apart". So I started writing a story about an Argentine priest who was just found guilty of genocide, murder and torture and I started thinking about the priest's claim that "in 2,000 years of history, no priest of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church has violated the sacraments." That lead me away from Gonzalez and towards the LSD-soaked early days on the Rolling Stones. I figured you might enjoy it more anyway:

Goat's Head Soup (Reis)
	Artist: Rolling Stones

There have been some big losses lately and engineer/producer Andy Johns' death this week at 62 adds to that list. R.I.P.

Through The Past Darkly (Big Hits Vol.2)

The holiday weekend is over and I need some Stones. This gem features an oboe solo, and backing vocals by Lennon and McCartney. What more could you want?

I've been racking my brain to find a fitting song for the recent news but nothing comes to mind. Oh well, this track should suffice. Hope your week started well.

S.F. Sorrow
	Artist: The Pretty Things

S.F. Sorrow was released the same week as The Beatles' White Album, The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet and The Kinks' The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. Pretty hard to get attention with that kind of competition. Nevertheless, it definitely stands up there with those classics. It was recorded at Abbey Road and is one of the first rock operas (although Pete Townsend claims that it had no influence on him whatsoever). Hope your week got started on the right foot!

Beggars Banquet
	Artist: The Rolling Stones

It's time for some Stones, my friends. And you also might enjoy a gorgeous concert at our sister site Newstalgia -- Orquesta Sinfonica de la Region de Murcia (OSRM featuring the music of Spanish composers Joaquin Turina and Manuel Moreno-Buendia.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm a King Bee from England's Newest Hit Makers

From C&Ler AndyK, who requested this choice:

Growing up in the '70's, I was familiar with all of the Rolling Stones hits from Satisfaction to Shattered. No big whoop to me, really. Then my buddy Ed Smith turned me on to the earlier, bluesier Stones, and I was hooked! Here they cover a Slim Harpo classic.

Howlin' Wolf-- Chester Burnett-- is, undeniably, one of the greatest of the greats when it comes to the Blues. He wrote "Smokestack Lightning" 1956 and it was given a Grammy in 1999-- after being covered by the Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Clapton, The Who, The Animals, Lynryd Skynyrd, the Dead... Can you think of a song with a pedigree like that? I was lucky to have seen him play live about 10 years before he died and he was still an incredible and compelling performer.

Bobby Troup wrote "Route 66" in 1946 and the first version was Nat King Cole's (same year), although Perry Como followed a dozen years later. Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones had hit versions and dozens of other artists have done it as well, from Tom Petty, John Mayer, Manhattan Transfer, Them, Natalie Cole, Brian Setzer Orchestra and Asleep at the Wheel to the Andrew Sisters (with Bing Crosby), Buckwheat Zydeco, and The Cramps. Depeche Mode released their cover of "Route 66" at the end of 1987 as a non-LP b-side of "Behind the Wheel," (from Music For the Masses). Martin Gore sang lead instead of Dave Gahan (although Dave usually does it live when they perform it). The b-side was as popular as the a-side and there are countless remixes that combine the two. Our version tonight was remixed by The Beatmasters:

The world first heard about Marianne Faithfull as part of the Rolling Stones soap opera in the 60s. She was a great looking singer with an uncontrollable drug habit. She had a series of pretty decent singles over the course of a decade-- and some less praiseworthy albums-- before she released the LP that brought her back to the public's attention after a long and spectacular descent into drug hell: Broken English (1979). One of the most acclaimed songs on the album was a cover of John Lennon's now classic "Working Class Hero," first released by Lennon on his debut post-Beatles project in 1970. More recently-- last year-- Green Day did a great version of it on a charity compilation. Here's Marianne Faithfull's version: