Limping along, two months late as usual, but I’ve only just read the CREEM special issue, and I’ve got my own Stones’ stories to tell.

Everyone’s agreed (CREEM and Rolling Stone, Nik Cohn and Lillian Roxon) to the Rolling Stones are the greatest rock and roll band ever. I agree, too. Problem is to say why. In the history of rock there are more “signifiRftt” people: Chuck Berry defined the genre, musically and lyrically; Elvis led the creemmg of America; the Beatles popped English ears. Bob Dylan and Cream, the Grateful Dead and the Pink Floyd, Jirm Hendrix were all, m their various ways, more influential, for audiences, than the RoJling stones.