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Sessler, Freddie

sex, and violence

Sex Pistols

Shearer, Harry

Shelley, Percy Bysshe; “Adonais,”

Shepherd, Shirley Ann

“sig lick,”

Simon, Carly; “You’re So Vain,”

Sinatra, Frank

Slipknot

Smashing Pumpkins

Socrates

songwriting

Sparrow, Captain Jack

Spears, Britney

Spector, Phil

Springer, Jerry

Spring Heeled Jack

Springsteen, Bruce

Stalin, Joseph

Stallings, A.E.

Stanwyck, Barbara

Starr, Ringo

Stewart, Ian

Stockhausen, Karlheinz

Stravinsky, Igor: The Rite of Spring

Styx

Swift, Taylor

Symbolic violence

Taylor, Cecil

Taylor, Mick

thanatos

theatron

theoria

Townsend, Peter; “Won’t Get Fooled Again,”

tradition, question of

traditional arts

Urge Overkill

U2

Van Gogh, Vincent

Van Halen, Eddie

Van Zandt, Townes

Ventura, Jesse

Vincent, Gene

violence, philosophical views on

Vogel, Jonathan

Waits, Tom

Walsh, Joe

Warhol, Andy

Waters, Muddy

Waters, Roger

Watts, Charlie ; as great drummer

Wenner, Jan

Western music

Wetzel, James

Whitehead, Alfred North; on consciousness; on rhythmic patterns; “self-creative act,”

white mythology

The Who

Wilkins, Rev.: “Prodigal Son,”

Williams, Hank

Williamson, Sonny Boy

Wood, Ronnie

Woodstock

Wyman, Bill; as bass player

X-Pensive Winos: “Gimme Shelter,”

The Yardbirds

Yes

Yoakam, Dwight

Young, Angus: “You Shook Me All Night Long,”

Zappa, Frank

Zeitgeist

Žižek! (movie)

Žižek, Slavoj; on 9/11; Violence; on violence

The Zombies

1

Victor Bokris, Keith Richards: The Biography, Da Capo, p. 344.

2

“The Rolling Stones Altamont Disaster: Let it Bleed,” by Lester Bangs and others, Rolling Stone (January 30th, 1970).

3

Stanley Booth, The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones (A Cappella, 2000), pp. 139, 147.

4

Critique of the Power of Judgment (Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 187.

5

Barger cited in John Strausbaugh, Rock ’Til You Drop (Verso, 2003), p. 77.

6

Rock ’Til You Drop, p. 238.

7

Tim Dowley, The Rolling Stones (Hippocrene, 1983), p. 49.

8

Lynn Ashton, Mick Jagger: Close To 70 and Still Rocking. Daily News Pulse (2011).

9

The Rolling Stones, p. 41.

10

Jan Wenner, Being Interviewed Is One of Mick Jagger’s Least Favorite Pastimes (1995) .

11

The Rolling Stones, p. 87.

12

Jonathan B. Vogels, The Direct Cinema of David and Albert Maysles (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005).

13

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (London: Penguin, 1968), p. 24.

14

Twilight of the Idols, p. 81.

15

On The Geneology of Morals (New York: Vintage, 1969), pp. 87–88.

16

BBC, Mick Answers Your Questions (2010),

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17

Bill Wyman, Stone Alone (Viking Penguin, 1990), p. 537.

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19

For sound checking and suggestions, I thank Travis Hreno, Tom McBride, and Joanna Trzeciak.

20

Margins of Philosophy (University of Chicago Press, 1982), p. 213.

21

Augustine, The Confessions of St. Augustine (New American Library, 1963), p. 60.

22

Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals (Random House, 1967), p. 44.

23

According to Keith Richards, “The first one we wrote was ‘As Tears Go By’.” Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, and Ronnie Wood, According to the Rolling Stones (Chronicle, 2003), p. 82.

24

Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments (Princeton University Press, 1992), Vol. II, p. 45.

25

Mick Jagger: “There’s a lot of rubbish on Satanic Majesties. Just too much time on our hands, too many drugs, no producer to tell us ‘Enough already, thank you very much, now can we just get on with this song?’” According to the Rolling Stones, p. 107.

26

“The very metaphysicians who think to escape the world of appearances are constrained to live perpetually in allegory. A sorry lot of poets, they dim the colors of the ancient fables, and are