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Keith and Charlie start off the next track, She Was Hot. With its metallic searing guitar lines, more powerful inter-weaving playing including Leavell’s keyboards mixing with Stu’s piano, and a wonderful melodic lead guitar solo break, this is a more powerful, full-bodied rock song than its sister She’s So Cold. Jagger’s lyrics and delivery (along with the great video) are red hot. .

Yeah, the sisterhood of "She Was Hot" and "She's So Cold" is lyrically well-founded, but I think that is as far as it goes. Musically "She's So Cold" is so typical exercise in their contemporary Pathe Marconi sound. The pointed out simplicity in form - simple riff with three chords based on incredible attitude and groove - refers more to punk influence than to Chuck Berry (or what is left of tha influence inspired in 1977/78). By contrast, "She Was Hot" goes musically straight to the 50's. I would say its 'sister' song actually is "Star Star". Both are guitar-lead exercises by the world biggest Chuck Berry fan who does his job with a honest dedication. But in both cases, the classical three-chord pattern of Berry songs is not enough but enrichened by more 'melodic' elements. In "She Was Hot" the chorus is surprisingly rich in its melodical structure, and the amount of chords used is truely expectional for a Stones tune. "Star Star" is more moderate in that sense but it also has a melodic ring in its chorus that it makes it different from the classical Berry songs.

If we look other Jagger/Richards songs from that has a clear Berry vibe in them, it is rather difficult to find actually. Most of their songs are some more like applications of some basic berrian ideas, but which sound way too original to call any longer them Berry-like, or directly inspired by him. But there are expections. I think "Rip This Joint" is basically a 50's Berry rocker, just performed with such energy and contemporary edge that it almost hides the source of inspiration. There also the lyrics are so Berry-like - dropping names of places, etc. Also "Had It With You" comes to mind.

- Doxa

Doxa, I could say the same thing about, say..

Brand New Car on Voodoo Lounge - that song is pure Chuck Berry - it could have been perfect on some Brian Jones era early sixties albums and so is Mean Disposition and Flip The Switch on Bridges...

- Another oldies 50´s style song on Undercover is I Wanna Hold You - it reminds me of Buddy Holly. It´s kinda 50 style pop song, maybe not a fast rocker but it has that Buddy Hollyish/Everly Brothersish 50's pop to it.

When people talk about the 50´s they always remember the Chuck Berry, Little Richard kinda of fast rockers and they forget the 50´s pop, the likes of Buddy Holly and Everly Brothers...there was plenty of 50´s pop on albums like Beetween The Buttons and Aftermath back in the sixties, - I would call that sixties pop era Stones - and those kind of poppy tunes can be found on later day albums too.

Keith admires the Everly Brothers and Hoagy Carmichael very much. I like his poppy stuff, Wanna Hold You included.

You can feel the love and admiration here; this is simply a stunning version:





- Doxa