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Letter From Britain

Devil or Angel?

Yeah, I know that the Rolling Stones double album is the event of the season but I’m still fixated on the B side of their single.

August 1, 1972
Simon Frith

Yeah, I know that the Rolling Stones double album is the event of the season but I’m still fixated on the B side of their single. If ‘Sweet Black Angel’ means what I think it means (and I admit I can’t make out half the words) then Mick Jagger has finally blown it. ‘Brown Sugar’ was ambiguous, ‘Sweet Black Angel’ isn’t:

Gotta sweet black angel, got a pin-up girl. Gotta sweet black angel, up upon my wall.

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