Mick Jagger's Superheavy Delivers a Summer Song For Every Beach

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In this week's slate of Rolling Stone reviews, Jon Dolan praises "Miracle Worker," the genre-smashing first single from Mick Jagger's new supergroup Superheavy, noting that it's "a summertime single built for every beach." Also, Monica Herrera is lukewarm on "Headlines," the first single from Drake's Take Care, which suffers from a slight hook and a beat that never takes off, and Evan Serpick pans the limp, Lex Luger-free new album from Southern rap titans Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame.

SONGS

Superheavy "Miracle Worker" (stream)

Drake "Headlines" (stream)

Jane's Addiction "Irresistible Force" (stream)

ALBUMS

Gary Clark Jr. - Bright Lights (stream one song)

Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame - Ferrari Boyz (stream one song)

Mat Kearney - Young Love (stream one song)

The Decemberists - iTunes Session (EP)

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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