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Ian Dury

A eulogy for rockabilly star Gene Vincent that moves between tender elegy and jukebox-era pastiche, using stark black-and-white…

mortality and decline rock and roll mythology addiction and self-destruction

Mott the Hoople

A glam-rock anthem that gathers a cast of restless, damaged teenagers and turns their drift into a rallying cry. Bowie's song,…

youth disaffection generational divide glam identity and androgyny

Jethro Tull

A caustic broadside against the American co-option of Christianity, pairing frontier violence and cowboy mythology with the…

religious hypocrisy American mythology and violence colonialism

Neil Young

A drifting laborer weighs a move west for work while quietly accepting that the relationship he's leaving behind won't survive…

itinerant labor resignation fading love

Mott the Hoople

This is Mott the Hoople's own epitaph and origin story rolled into one, a self-mythologizing autobiography written at the exact…

rock stardom as self-destruction nostalgia and regret band identity and mythology