(It’s recommended that you listen to this on Spotify as their embed only has 200 songs. If I was being honest: “Memo From Turner” isn’t anywhere as great as the songs from Let it Bleed and Sticky Fingers it would have had to compete with had they decided to put it on one of those records.īut, of course, they didn’t - because it was during that period where the Rolling Stones Could Do No Wrong - and I do love “Memo From Turner” enough to write about it, even if it’s just an excuse to tell you how fucking excited I’m going to be to write about the Stones proper in 2020 or so if we ever get there.Ī filterable, searchable & sortable somewhat up to date database with links to every “Certain Song” post I’ve ever written. When I’m laughing, laughing in my graaaaaaveĪlso near-manic: Ry Cooder’s slide guitar, which spends the entire song dancing like Jagger over Gene Parsons nervous, jumpy beat, which is so skittery it nearly slides right off of the record. So his vocal is near-manic, taking the piss out of the “gentlemen” - who are, of course, no such thing - he’s addressing with a slur and a tease.
MEMO FROM TURNER MOVIE
In any event, during the mid-point of that period where they Could Do No Wrong (I mean, except for Altamont, of course), Mick Jagger filmed a Nicolas Roeg movie called Performance, where he played a rock star called Turner, meaning that “Memo From Turner” was written to order for that character, so it’s Mick Jagger even more in character than normal. And while 30 years of not being the World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band should have taken its toll upon the Rolling Stones, it turns out that they’re like The Simpsons: you can’t kill them, but you can ignore whatever it is they’re doing now, because they were so great for so long it doesn’t even matter. Not only was it co-written by Keith Richards, the Stones themselves - or some semblance thereof - recorded a version of it in 1968 that ended up on Metamorphosis some years later.īut that version is a run-through, a trifle, when compared to the version that Mick put out as what stood as his only solo single until he actually thought he could sustain a career without the riffs of Keith Richards upon which to stack his vocal dexterity. He shows once again that he is the laureate of the violent thriller.This will be the only song from Mick Jagger’s solo career that I will be writing about.Īnd in fact, there might be some confusion as to whether or not “Memo From Turner” is truly a Mick solo song.
As the battle of wills escalates, and the moral contradictions multiply, Turner won't be bought and won't be bullied, and when they try to bury him he rediscovers, during a desperate odyssey to the very brink of death, a long-forgotten truth about himself.īy the time Willocks's tale is finished, fourteen men have died. When Turner travels to the remote mining town that Margot owns - including the local police and private security force - he finds her determined to protect her son at any cost. But by chance the case falls to the relentless Warrant Officer Turner of Cape Town homicide. Why should his life be ruined for a nameless girl who was already terminally ill? No one will care and the law is cheap. The driver's mother, a self-made mining magnate called Margot Le Roux, intends to keep her son in ignorance of his crime. His companions - who do know - leave the girl to die. What happens when a man of absolute integrity finds himself trapped in a world of absolute corruption?ĭuring a weekend spree in Cape Town a young, rich Afrikaner fatally injures a teenage street girl with his Range Rover but is too drunk to know that he has hit her. **LONGLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL AWARD 2019** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER 2019** Standard (EADGBE) Did A nt I see you down in A7 San Antone on a hot and D7 dusty night You A were eating eggs in Sammy D7 s when the black man there drew his knife. The new thriller from the author of The Religion and The Twelve Children of Paris The Rolling Stones - Memo From Turner Chords.
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