Letter From Britain
Innocents Abroad
According to Patti Smith, Mick Jagger is the best dancer since Nijinsky.
September 1, 1976
According to Patti Smith, Mick Jagger is the best dancer since Nijinsky. Well I ain’t ever seen Nijinsky dance (though I did see him win the Derby) but I saw Mick Jagger for the first time last week and he didn’t even dance as well as Billy Preston, who slid across the stage to humiliate whitey just like JamesBrown on the T.A.M.I. show all those years ago. Patti Smith, meanwhile, didn’t dance at all but stumbled about like a little girl at someone else’s party who wants everyone to look at her but hopes that no-one will notice how hard she’s trying.