![]() These songs usually end in the triumphant present, with the band on top, sometimes mocking their success, sometimes still tainted with dreams. ![]() There’s a long tradition of self-mythologizing rock & roll songs, like the Barbarians’ “Moulty,” the Raiders “Legend of Paul Revere,”* or the Mammas & Pappas’ “Creeque Alley,” with variations like Creedence Clearwater’s “Lodi,” where John Fogerty offers an alternate life in which he never made it and was stuck playing one-night stands in bars. Bowie told him he should write a song about the Stooges, and offered a title: “Dum Dum Days.” He played the same set of notes over and over again, at a loss at where to go next. ![]() Iggy Pop was stuck at the piano during the early Idiot sessions at the Château d’Hérouville. ![]()
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