“Jagger and Johansen at the film premiere of ‘The Song Remains The Same’ in NYC, October 19th, 1976.”
47 years ago! And BOTH still actively performing.
“Anthony Bourdain’s 20 Favourite Songs of the 1970s” (note: There are only 19!)
‘Pusher Man’: Curtis Mayfield
‘Baby’s on Fire’: Brian Eno
‘Bad Luck’: Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
‘Penetration’: Iggy and the Stooges
‘Walk on the Wild Side’: Lou Reed
‘What’s Going On’: Marvin Gaye
‘Jet Boy’: The New York Dolls
‘Ca Plane Pour Moi’: Plastic Bertrand
‘Love Comes in Spurts’: Richard Hell & the Voidoids
‘In Every Dream Home a Heartache’: Roxy Music
‘Strawberry Letter 23’: The Brothers Johnson
‘I’m so Bored with the U.S.A’: The Clash
‘Human Fly’: The Cramps
‘Ooh La La’: The Faces
‘Chinese Rocks’: The Heartbreakers
‘Beat on the Brat’: The Ramones
‘Bodies’: The Sex Pistols
‘Do the Dog’: The Specials
‘I Saw the Light’: Todd Rundgren
From the accompanying article:
He, of course, selects his beloved New York Dolls and their track ‘Jet Boy’. The band were not only a group laying the foundations of Punk before anybody knew what it was, but that Bourdain says were “an answered prayer. The antidote to all the lousy music of the era. Loud, unapologetically sloppy. Johnny Thunders’ guitar made life worth living again and gave permission to everything good that followed, like New York Punk. Joyously nihilistic.”
