The raw elemental power of skirling guitars & throbbing harmonicas pushed to the front by bass guitar & drums & the weary, angry, sardonic, humorous adult lyrics became a soundtrack that drowned out for me the anodyne whingeing of pre- Beatles & Stones pop music. ... Returning to my hometown of Kingston in Surrey, I found myself in the heartland of that boom, missing the Rolling Stones' last gig at the Railway Hotel by Richmond station by a matter of weeks. ...
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