'let's Get It On' Is A Classic

There Were Many Stars In Motown's Firmament - Among Them, Stevie, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves And Diana Ross - But I Happen To Have Loved The Four Tops Most Of All.

Bob Dylan May Be The Charlie Chaplin Of Rock N' Roll. Both Men Are Regarded As Geniuses By Their Entire Audience. Both Were Proclaimed Revolutionaries For Their Early Work And Subjected To Exhaustive Attack When Later Works Were Thought To Be Inferior. Both Developed Their Art Without So Much As A Nodding Glance Toward Their Peers.

The Rolling Stones Have Been The Best Of All Possible Worlds: They Have The Lack Of Pretension And Sentimentality Associated With The Blues, The Rawness And Toughness Of Hard Rock, And The Depth Which Always Makes You Feel That They Are In The Midst Of Saying Something. They Have Never Impressed Me As Being Kitsch.

To Her Audience, Janis Joplin Has Remained A Symbol, Artifact And Reminder Of Late Sixties Youth Culture. Her Popularity Never Derived From Her Musical Ability, But From Her Capacity To Link Her Fantasies Of Freedom And Immortality With Ours.

Bob Dylan Has Always Sealed His Decisions With The Unexplainable. His Motives For Withholding The Release Of The Magnificent 'basement Tapes' Will Be As Forever Obscure As Brian Wilson's Reasons For The Destruction Of The Tapes For 'smile.'