![]() ![]() ![]() It's a habit intensified by working on a history of protest music in which songs and historical events become inextricably linked. Possibly this suggests a chronic inability on my part not to relate dramatic events to music. The Rolling Stones' slow-burning jeremiad played out over images of riot police and buildings on fire. The combination was unexpectedly visceral. On Sunday morning – after Tottenham but before London's rioting went viral – I was reading reports of the violence when Gimme Shelter came on the radio.
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