Over Six Million Dollars Worth of Heroine (Tunes)
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005Does anybody find it odd that one of the Rolling Stones’ most successful albums, “Sticky Fingers,” is pretty much almost entirely about heroine obsession, with a thimble full of coke addiction thrown in for good measure? Well, to get right down to it, it’s actually an album about heroine obsession posing as an album about sex. “Sticky Fingers,” sounds like a clarion call to jerk off, but it’s actually referring to the residue left on one’s fingers if one touches black tar heroine.
Hmmm, let’s see, there’s the first track, “Brown Sugar,” which leads us to believe that Mick has a thing for women of color. Call