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Are You Afraid of Thatcher?
You say Mick Jagger was an admirer of Thatcher, which is kind of awful thought somehow. Keith Richards' sort of version of it was like massively hedonistic and flaunting it. You talk about the fact that he completely unnecessarily took off in this yellow soft-top sports car packed with drugs when they were in Arkansas. That sums out perfectly, I think. So there's always these two things going on. On one hand, there's the raw energy of me, me, me,. Which we've all been through as a teenager to the exclusion of everything else. And then the other stream of stuff is which gets represented by the Beatles and amplified by LSD, but also there