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MANATHA MORTON •
BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN •
THE ROLLING STONES • INSPIRAL CARPETS•NEILYOUNG•JOHNCALE• JULY 2024 TAKE 327
JONI MIT
On the cover: Joni Mitchell by Norman Seeff
Paul Weller (UK) by Nicole Nodland Grateful Dead (ROW) by Getty Images
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AT the time of writing, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and The Rolling Stones are all on tour, either in Europe or America. As you can read from various reports on these outings in this issue, the artists continue to go about their business with commendable vigour, delivering performances that spectacularly reaffirm music’s unifying power. After seeing the Stones’ opening show in Houston, Stephen Conn – one of our subscribers – emailed to me to say: “In a world where Paul McCartney is still revising a Beatles saga that wrapped up decades ago and we now spend most of our lives trapped in a 16-year-old’s diary on Planet Taylor, that old totems like the Stones are still capable of ecstatic musical transcendence like this is a remarkable thing.”