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Might be old news...

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thank you for that...that was marvelous!

Actually, the funniest things about the video, in no particular order, are the goofy 80s attire, a close-up of Mick's pinkish-red lipstick at 0:36, and Mick stooping down to pick up and drink from a paper cup [of water?] in the middle of his dance routine [at 0:40].

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Actually, the funniest things about the video, in no particular order, are the goofy 80s attire, a close-up of Mick's pinkish-red lipstick at 0:36, and Mick stooping down to pick up and drink from a paper cup [of water?] in the middle of his dance routine [at 0:40].

wasn't that a pepsi or something?

I wonder if MJ looks back on that and just cringes?



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I'm not sure it was a Pepsi. Mick doesn't seem the type to take the Pepsi challenge--it's too pedestrian a beverage for such a landed country gentleman. At the very least, it would have to be something that not just anyone would drink. If it's a bubbly soda-type beverage, then I would guess it would be nothing less than Perrier.

I doubt Mick cringes when he sees that vid--because I doubt he ever sees it. Like the 60s, he probably regards the 80s as something long-gone and passe, and looks back on those times dismissively, if at all. However, I'd bet you a case of Pepsi that he still has that fluffy blue shirt and goofy trousers stored away in a box, in some warehouse somewhere. He might even have the key entrusted to Bill Wyman, who knows?

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I'm not sure it was a Pepsi. Mick doesn't seem the type to take the Pepsi challenge--it's too pedestrian a beverage for such a landed country gentleman. At the very least, it would have to be something that not just anyone would drink. If it's a bubbly soda-type beverage, then I would guess it would be nothing less than Perrier.

I doubt Mick cringes when he sees that vid--because I doubt he ever sees it. Like the 60s, he probably regards the 80s as something long-gone and passe, and looks back on those times dismissively, if at all. However, I'd bet you a case of Pepsi that he still has that fluffy blue shirt and goofy trousers stored away in a box, in some warehouse somewhere. He might even have the key entrusted to Bill Wyman, who knows?

it looks like a coors light, silver can.

Both look a little light in the loafers to me.

I thought it was the real sound until I heard Bowie do his karate yell...I think it's just a spoof on Pepsi and Michael and all that..with the can.



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I'm not sure it was a Pepsi.

it looks like a coors light, silver can.

If you freeze the frame at 0:41 at just the right moment after he's sipped from the can and is still holding it at chin level, you can almost make out the Budweiser logo.

Quite a long write-up of the Jagger/Bowie "collaboration" with a bit of background on how the cover came to be:

While the rhythm tracks and vocals of “Dancing in the Street” were cut one night during Bowie’s Absolute Beginners sessions at the end of June 1985, with the same band Bowie used for that soundtrack, Jagger soon took over the show, bringing the tapes back with him to New York in early July and larding them with horns, backing singers who sounded like they came from a karaoke machine and generic guitar contributions by G.E. Smith and Earl Slick.

It hadn’t been an inspired session, with the band slogging through takes of “Dancing” to get the feel of it, as they’d just learned the song, and sounding “@#$%& awful…like a cabaret band,” as producer Alan Winstanley recalled to David Buckley. (“I had my head in my hands, thinking, what the @#$%& is this?” he added.) Jagger’s arrival got everyone down to business, with most of the lead vocals soon cut in a single take. However drummer Neil Conti recalled Jagger “on an ego trip,” strutting around the studio, establishing his alpha credentials even to the tea boys. Bowie, in a genial mood or perhaps just drunk, gave Jagger the reins (Conti recalled Bowie smiling “Sphinx-like…while Jagger sneered at the engineer“), an imbalance of power that continued in both the video, where Bowie plays Robin to Jagger’s louche Batman, and in the pair’s single live performance of “Dancing,” at the 1986 Prince’s Trust concert, where Jagger utterly dominates the song, thanks in part to either a wonky mike or poor sound mixing for Bowie.

And also an amusing list of the video's "highlights":



1) Jagger’s dancing, especially in the opening verse, reminds one of Truman Capote’s snark about Jagger’s stage act: “as sexy as a pissing frog.”

2) The choreography makes a bit more sense if you imagine that each of them are pretending to duet with Tina Turner.

3) A small charm is Bowie’s role as foil here—he’s often acting like a gawky fan who won an MTV contest to co-star in a video with Jagger. The dopey hand twirling movements, the half-assed judo kicks.

4) That said, when Bowie sways his hips and clasps himself as he lip-syncs “streets of Brazil!” is the absolute nadir of his performing life.

5) Jagger had been a fashion casualty for years, so his sherbet-green puffy shirt and purple caddy pants are just par for the course. But you’d expect better from Bowie than the camouflage pajamas and over-sized raincoat.

6) St. Vincent, on Twitter: “Bowie and Jagger “Dancing in the Street” video duet is the biggest anti-cocaine ad you ask for. #ihavethatjacket“. Sadly, I don’t think you can blame coke for this one.

7) After all the hard work Bowie did in 1983-1984 establishing his heterosexual bonafides, he releases a single whose sleeve could’ve doubled for a gay porn film advertisement and whose video ends with a freeze-frame of his and Jagger’s synchronized ass-waggle.

8) “That happened and we let it happen“: trenchant YouTube comment (actually “Family Guy” reference, see comments).

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HILARIOUS indeed!!
I thought it was just going to be the video with no audio at all, but the sound effects are perfection!

I remember one of the funniest comments on the original youtube video of this is "this is what cocaine does to you"

I suppose if one were under duress and was forced to say SOMETHING positive about the video, one could say that it was for a good cause. Ummmm....right?

Oh God that was funny.
I hadn't watched this video because I didn't want to relive the horror of it...
And it's as bad as it I remembered it.
Mick was just.... What the hell was he doing? I remember being so embarrassed
when it came out. It was hard to explain this kind of shit to nonStones fans. Man, those were not good times to be a a Stones fan.

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I remember one of the funniest comments on the original youtube video of this is "this is what cocaine does to you"

And it looks like the coke still hadn't worn off two whole years later!...

The singer reminds me on the late Ronnie James Dio and the guitar player sounds a little bit like Ritchie Blackmore in his best days.

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Ronny Wood along with Charlie Sexton performing in 1987. The sold out show was in Dallas Texas at the Hard Rock Cafe. The Rolling Stones member and accomplished artist was in town promoting his gallery show. Charlie's brother Will Sexton was also onstage.

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mid-November: WILL AND THE KILL. Dallas, Texas, Hard Rock Cafe. Incl.
- Ooh La La (RW/Ronnie Lane)
- Honky Tonk Women (MJ/KR)
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Line-up: RW (gtr, voc)/William Sexton (voc)/Charlie Sexton (gtr)/& The
Kill (all other instruments)



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I remember being in Toronto talking to Charlie the day of the Palais Royal show. I asked him if he was going to the Stones show, and he looked at me like I was crazy and said very firmly NO! Looking back I wonder if he had a gig in Toronto that night as well, I know Bob Dylan did and JC bitterly complained that is where he himself wanted to be. Sorry Charlie sorry Bob but it was the Stones all the way in Toronto that day.

Hey Mick, Sexton would be a fine guest artist...

Agree to the Nth degree – fine guitarist, fine voice and fine looking – FINEFINEFINE!

charlie sexton rocks !!!

This guy opened for Steve Winwood last night at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood...surprisingly good stuff!





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Great!

The guy looks like a junior college music teacher

Just found this on You Tube. He is sitting around playing with Adam Bomb. Not really familiar with him but Taylor's playing is really hot on this. Hope ya'll like it. Sorry you have to click on the link.


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The first one below, the oldies station played it. There is a news story out sometimes and people find a song that can go with it. So I think they played it per this matter in Brazil.





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Just got back from a concert with the Golden Earing and Madness and some other bands Madness is a great live band .........as are the Earing...........................









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Nice story.

Nice comments about all of them. "My idol growing up, a guy by the name Mick Richards, Keith Jagger."

Thank you. I love Lonesome George.