It’s night time in the big city
Temptation is on every corner
A man rents a hotel room under an assumed name
“For the next sixty minutes, we’re gonna be talking about one horse towns, one track minds, one armed bandits, one false move, one in a million, one too many, one way or another, one brick shy of a load, and one and only. So stay here one and all, and listen to songs on a singular subject, that subject being ‘number one.’”
“I don’t think anybody ever did it as good as the folks who did it first.”
“Even though it’s a little cleaner (than S. Lewis’s version), you can’t fault Elvis. It was the taste of times and he’d already broken enough rules.”
“…had Curtis Mayfield at the helm. Curtis was a triple threat: he wrote the songs, he played guitar on the songs, he sang on the songs.”
“It’s like a series of snapshots of a neighborhood in the bayou.”
“He was a tortured soul capable of great darkness, but you can’t always let someone’s bad qualities be the only thing that you remember them by. Ike Turner was capable of great art and the world of music is a poorer place for his loss.”
“A noted motorcycle gang”
(1st platinum record, selling over 1 million copies) “I know I musta bought it five times.”