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The Rolling Stones' Some Girls (33 1/3 Book 81) Kindle Edition

by Cyrus R.K. Patell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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It's October 1977, and the Rolling Stones are in a Paris recording studio. They're under siege. Keith Richards's legal troubles after his arrest for heroin possession threaten the band's future, and the broad consensus among rock aficionados is that the band will never again reach the heights of Exile on Main Street.

But Mick Jagger is writing lyrics inspired by the year he has just spent in New York City, where he was hanging out with the punks at CBGB and with the glitterati at Studio 54. And new bandmember Ron Wood is helping Richards recapture the two-guitar groove that the band had been missing since the Brian Jones era. The result? Some Girls, the band's response both to punk rock and to disco, an album that crackles with all the energy, decadence, and violence of New York in the 1970s. Weaving together the history of the band and the city, Cyrus R. K. Patell traces the genesis and legacy of the album that Jagger would later call the band's best since Let It Bleed.
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This latest entry in the wonderful 33 1/3 series features the last great album by the Rolling Stones...--Sanford Lakoff

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About the Author

Cyrus R.K. Patell is Associate Dean of Humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi and an English professor at NYU in New York. He is currently completing a literary history of multicultural Amerian literature since 1968 for NYU Press.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00Q2Z6YGG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Continuum; 1st edition (June 9, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 9, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4636 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 194 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1441199136
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Cyrus R. K. Patell is Professor of Literature at NYUAD and Professor of English at NYU in New York. He began his scholarly career as a specialist in 19th- and 20th-century US literature and culture, but his recent scholarship and teaching has centered on the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism, on late-20th century US emergent literatures, Global Shakespeare, and Star Wars.

Patell is presently at work on essays about Batman, the Marvel comic "Not Brand Ecch," and the Witches of Dathomir from the Star Wars universe, as well as a monograph on the ways in which Shakespeare's Hamlet became a part of global cultural heritage. With Deborah Lindsay Williams, he is co-editing volume eight of the twelve-volume Oxford History of the Novel in English (general editor Patrick Parrinder) on the American novel after 1940.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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Coleen
4.0 out of 5 stars The Stones' First New York City Album (by way of Paris)
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2011
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Recorded in Paris in '77 and '78, the Rolling Stones' Some Girls album is probably the last of their albums that can be considered a bona fide groundbreaking classic...unlike the author, I feel that Tattoo You (except for the track, Neighbours, which I tend to skip) is equally NYC-centric, and equally great, and I also have a lot of love for the underrated Undercover album (also NYC-centric). I remember the excitement surrounding Some Girls when it was released in 1978, and the author captures the mood of the times - and of NYC (where Mick and Keith had/have apartments) and how it inspired much of the Some Girls album. The book has a few minor inaccuracies, and, perhaps the author makes too much of the NYC connection to the album, but this book is a really fun read aimed especially at those who are just discovering the Stones and/or Some Girls; however, I have loved the Stones for 30 years, and I found this book useful and enjoyable. Those who have studied the Some Girls sessions and have many of the unreleased tracks may find this book a bit redundant, but, in my opinion, just about any book on The Stones is worth reading, and this book covers a time and place that has not been examined as thoroughly, in writing, as, say, '69 or '72. It's great to revisit this classic album again and again, and this book is a worthwhile entry in the 33 1 3 series.
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thomgonzales
5.0 out of 5 stars great and fast read
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2015
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great book in the 33 1/3 series
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Roger
3.0 out of 5 stars I did enjoy the book though it was filled with grammatical mistakes
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2016
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I did enjoy the book though it was filled with grammatical mistakes.Liked the fact that it also had a lot of technical information behind each song as well as stories pertaining to the origin of the songs!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Hit
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2014
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One of the better in the series. Worth reading.
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Robert Johnson
4.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2019
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This 33 and 1/3 series is great cept the books are so small. I guess thats the gimmick. This is a great book about the album some girls by the rolling stones.
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Peter Schmitt
4.0 out of 5 stars Some Good Read
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2011
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Each book in this fine series has a different approach. I enjoyed this author's approach. Having grown up in NY in the late seventies and being a lover of the Stones' _Some Girls_, this book was a perfect fit.
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Hotrodimus
3.0 out of 5 stars Shockingly bad copy editing - typos, grammar, etc. make this feel like a blog post
Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2012
The book is great - but what on earth happened to the copy editing process!? Within the first 30 pages I've seen "base guitar," "hear" instead of "here," etc. TONS of typos and weirdo autocorrect-style mistakes.
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T. Satchwell
5.0 out of 5 stars Some Girls Do...Some Girls Don't....
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 30, 2012
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This was a great read for me...I was very much into the punk thing back in 1977/78...and the Rolling Stones were definitely "Old Guard"...but I thought "Miss You" and "Respectable" were great singles....so off to Boots to pick them up.
The book works it's way through the albums tracks and sets the scene nicely with background information about what was going on in the world and the world of the stones.
The author also calls it a "New York Album" which is interesting...and when you think about it..it does kind of make sense....I mean the Stones were from London ..right??? But it does have a New York feel somehow.
Reading this ..and I'm off on one of my missions to listen again..and track down some of their appearances/live stuff from that era.
SO...yes you have to reference
 Some Girls (2CD Deluxe Digipack Edition)
and

 Some Girls - Live In Texas '78 (DVD + CD) [2011 ]
A very good read....if you are a music fan...you don't have to be a Stones fanatic...its great stuff......
I have a number of these 33 and a 1/3 series...and they are all quality stuff!!
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