THE UNFORTUNATE AUTHORITY ON FIGHTING AUTHORITY

I think it’s generally accepted that there are more than a few classic rock tunes. From Chuck Berry’s “Maybelline” (1955) through the Sonics’ “Strychnine” (1965), the Dictators’ “(I Live For) Cars and Girls” (1975), Sonic Youth’s “Death Valley ’69” (1985), Bikini Kill’s “I Like Fucking” (1995), and onward, there are a lot of truly classic rock songs. It is nothing less than a perversion of our mother tongue that none of the aforementioned tunes can legally be referred to as classic rock in the way the term has come to be used.