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Green Lady
Being ignorant is not a crime - just an opportunity for good teachers, and it's part of the Stones' legacy that those ignorant white kids now know all about the black musicians who did it so much better, and can compare the Stones early covers unfavourably to their originals.
Although the young Stones were quite shameless in marketing their bad-boy image, I think the intention of their cover versions was always and honestly to turn their audiences on to the music that had inspired them, by doing their best to copy it. This wasn't the kind of cynical corporate rip-off of black artists' work that did take place in the States.
I'll come to "uninspiring" later on, when I've found a book I want to quote from...
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Green Lady
Being ignorant is not a crime - just an opportunity for good teachers, and it's part of the Stones' legacy that those ignorant white kids now know all about the black musicians who did it so much better, and can compare the Stones early covers unfavourably to their originals.