Yeah, I know that the Rolling Stones double album is the event of the season but I’m still fixated on the B side of their single. If ‘Sweet Black Angel’ means what I think it means (and I admit I can’t make out half the words) then Mick Jagger has finally blown it. ‘Brown Sugar’ was ambiguous, ‘Sweet Black Angel’ isn’t:

Gotta sweet black angel, got a pin-up girl. Gotta sweet black angel, up upon my wall.

For angel read Angela; this is the Stones’ political song (their “George Jackson,” natch). One evening Mick looked at the poster on his wall and wrote:

She’s a sweet black angel, Not a gun-toting teacher, Not a red-loving school marm.