Blog: Citizen Dick

You know how The Rolling Stones and The Beatles traded identities? The Stones acted like they were working-class hooligans, when in fact they were middle-class private school kids, while The Beatles were legitimately low-rent but played (at least at the front end) into white-collar expectations about youth, class and language. In a vacuum, John would be bloodying Mick's nose in response to a snobby insult as he (Mick) tried to crawl back to his dad's Volvo. In 1964, you'd not have sold a lot of people on that argument. To a degree, this myth-making on the part of both bands [...]

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