Song 750: This week the playlist comes around to Paint it, Black by The Rolling Stones, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. The week with the shortest day of light in the northern hemisphere seems like an appropriate time to feature this RS anthem, despite the fact that it actually first appeared around the opposite point of the global illumination cycle. Near the end of my freshman HS year, as we students began to enjoy summer vacation in 1966, the circling five that had become major British competitors to the Fab Four got our attention with their advice to apply a dark tone to our surroundings. Similar to the previous summer when their complaint about a lack of satisfaction (Song 256) got us teenies singing along, during that warm season our transistor radios had us chanting about seeing a red door and wanting it to get painted black, and also wanting to see the sun blotted out from the sky, although I doubt that any of us actually would have wished for such a dark reality.
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