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Poem: Rattled & Humdrum

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Simon Sweetman
Aug 27, 2019
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even when i was a U2 fan – and i had the defense of being a kid – it always bugged me at the start of Rattle and Hum when Bono would say:

“this is a song Charles Manson stole from The Beatles…we’re stealing it back”.

and then they’d play their rinky-dink cover of Helter Skelter.

stealing their own place amongst the rock and blues and jazz gods they referen…

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