mick jagger in "gravity's rainbow"

[Otto]

JBFrame wrote:
> Mick Jagger played the part of Blicero in the film version of Gravity's
> Rainbow, which was released on October 17, 2035 to rave reviews
> by Griel Marcus.

Not a bad idea when I think of "Performance."

Kai wrote:
>   not quite true. see "say a prayer for the common informer..." (541),
> a song obviously refering to "salt of the earth", the final song on
> "beggar's banquet" [1968]. & on page 742 we read, in context
> of sloth' last appearence on the cover of "the fool"'s only record,
> about "the arrogant style of theearly stones". so mick jagger is
> implicitly mentioned twice in "gravity's rainbow". if not more often.
> anyone?
>
> kfl
>

The title "beggar's banquet" itself of course expresses some sort of binary
opposition but the while the name of the Band lets me more think of the
Beatles (Magical Mystery Tour, The Fool on the Hill).
The "arrogant style" of the cover makes me think of "Between the Buttons."
When I think of the old Beatles-vs.-Stones-debates in the 60's the Beatles
were clearly for the elect while the Stones represented the preterite.

Otto

a very contentful fansite:
http://users.skynet.be/stones/

Salt of the Earth
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)

Let's drink to the hard working people
Let's drink to the lowly of birth
Raise your glass to the good and the evil
Let's drink to the salt of the earth

Say a prayer for the common foot soldier
Spare a thought for his back breaking work
Say a prayer for his wife and his children
Who burn the fires and who still till the earth

And when I search a faceless crowd
A swirling mass of gray and
Black and white
They don't look real to me
In fact, they look so strange

Raise your glass to the hard working people
Let's drink to the uncounted heads
Let's think of the wavering millions
Who need leading but get gamblers instead

Spare a thought for the stay-at-home voter
Empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows
And a parade of the gray suited grafters
A choice of cancer or polio

And when I look in the faceless crowd
A swirling mass of grays and
Black and white
They don't look real to me
Or don't they look so strange

Let's drink to the hard working people
Let's think of the lowly of birth
Spare a thought for the rag taggy people
Let's drink to the salt of the earth

Let's drink to the hard working people
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
Let's drink to the two thousand million
Let's think of the humble of birth