What if Madonna never reinvented herself?
What if Madonna froze the chameleon in 1984 and never changed color again? Same lace, same smirk, same dance vocabulary, decade after decade, while the culture turned around her like weather around a statue.
Rhodes Electric Piano – The electric warmth of keys
Harold Rhodes built the first of these pianos for wounded airmen in the Second World War, a small teaching instrument made from scrap, meant for hospital beds rather than ballrooms.
Piano Man – Billy Joel
The harmonica comes in sideways, a little sharp with barroom air, and the piano answers in a slow waltz, as if the room had asked for one more song before last orders.
London Calling – The Clash
By the late summer of 1979, punk's first uniform had started to pinch, and The Clash answered by recording a double album that refused to stand in one place.
Gimme Shelter – The Rolling Stones
The guitar starts like weather changing its mind, a shiver rather than a riff, and the band falls in behind it as if they had been waiting for the first drop.
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