Sunday 15 February 2009

Mr. Brownstone



Dear James,

Speaking of Elvis, which I was just now, I remembered yesterday's idea for a post about this song. It may have been my state of mind while listening to this seminal rendition from The Ritz in 1988, but I got the impression that it could have been an Elvis Presley cover. It isn't, but try singing along to this with A Little Less Conversation, give it a skiffle beat and I'm sure I'm onto something.

Mr Brownstone was written on the back of a grocery bag by Axl and Izzy after one of those days on the heroin, or Mr. Brownstone as they liked to call it. That's why the grocery bag is vastly superior to the plastic bag. You can write a song on the back of a Tesco bag, but only if you do so before shooting up.

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