THE ROCK IN ROLLING STONE: Mutual friends of iconic rock writer Paul Nelson reminisce
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Two heavyweights in their respective fields of music and writing discuss their mutual friend, the late Rolling Stone writer, Paul Nelson\\u2014and go on to create a tribute song for him 'Two Cokes for Paul Nelson'.\\n\\nStream the song: https://ffm.to/twocokes\\n\\nTWO COKES FOR PAUL NELSON \\n(Murphy / Lethem / Stafford)\\n\\nThese are the elements of a verse\\nSherman cigarettes - but it gets worse\\nFootprints on the running board of his wall\\nAnd by the way his name was Paul\\nAnd let\\u2019s not talk of his fall \\u2026 just yet\\n\\nOh starved to death \\u2013 that\\u2019s what the tabloids say\\nBut you know - I don\\u2019t see it that way\\nIn fact for me - the opposite is true\\nPaul was a glutton for everything he loved and knew\\nFrom Orson Welles, Ross Macdonald, Howard Hawks, Raymond C, Chet B, PKD, and Warren Z \\u2026 oh The New York Dolls and me\\n\\nSo let\\u2019s take a seat at the Jackson Hole\\nLet\\u2019s raise two cokes and toast his soul\\nThe soul of a man - our friend\\nPaul Nelson \\u2013 Paul Nelson\\n\\nA magnum forty-five and a snub-nose thirty-eight\\nBut books can kill if you can\\u2019t get them straight\\nA paragraph, a sentence, to a starving mind\\nSome die for want of an opening line\\nLife on a shrinking editorial island\\nPaul couldn\\u2019t lie, he couldn\\u2019t lie\\n\\nHey Rod Stewart - bashed out on a lark\\nTyping as fast as Lester Bangs could bark\\nPaul the quiet man, living in a borrowed head\\nAn enabler who couldn\\u2019t get out of bed\\nMarathon man in a hamburger booth\\nHe told the truth, he told the truth - that\\u2019s Paul\\n\\nLet\\u2019s take a seat at the Jackson Hole\\nLet\\u2019s raise two cokes to toast his soul\\nThe soul of a man - our friend\\nPaul Nelson \\u2013 Paul Nelson\\n\\nAbiding mentor, with a guiding mind\\nFreeze-frame, isolate the details, and then rewind\\nA stickler for the director\\u2019s cut\\nHis own mis-en-scene, he fell into a rut\\nScraps on the cutting-room floor\\nShut the door, shut the door, shut the door\\n\\nNow somehow he lost his way and that\\u2019s a pity\\nBut in the words of Norma Desmond\\nThe movies got small not Paul not Paul not Paul not Paul\\n\\nA drink at the Jackson Hole\\nTwo cokes oh let\\u2019s toast his soul\\nThe soul of a man\\nOur dear friend\\nPaul Nelson \\u2013 Paul Nelson\\n\\nThe older you get, the more you live with ghosts\\nAnd that\\u2019s according to Nick Tosches\\nwho\\u2019s now among them\\nAnd Paul \\u2026\\n\\n\\nCredits:\\nElliott Murphy : Vocals, Acoustic Guitars\\nJack Stafford : Backing Vocals\\nMassimino Voza : Mellotron, Percussions\\nLuigi Falcione : Bass Guitars\\nMaurizio Sarnicola : Electric Guitars, Percussions\\nWritten by Elliott Murphy, Jonathan Lethem & Jack Stafford\\nRecorded in Paris, France and Goldmine Records, Italy\\nMixed and mastered by Maurizio Sarnicola at Goldmine Records\\nProduced by Elliott Murphy, Gaspard Murphy and Maurizio Sarnicola\\nCover artwork Brendan O\\u2019Connell\\n\\n\\nhttps://elliottmurphy.com/https://jonathanlethem.com/https://www.podsongs.com/http://www.brendanoconnell.com/\\n\\n\\n\\n// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL //\\nNewsletter, donations and download the song for \\u20ac/$1 @ https://podsongs.com\\n\\n// LINKS //\\nWebsite: https://podsongs.com\\nPodcast episodes: https://podsongs.com/podcast-episodes\\nSongs: https://podsongs.com/music\\nSpotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7Ig\\nSpotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656\\n\\n// SOCIAL //\\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/podsongs\\nInstagram: https://instagram.com/podsongs\\nFacebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs
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