Repetitive Neurotic Crash

 Song 771: This week the playlist recognizes 19th Nervous Breakdown by The Rolling Stones, written by Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. At first, when the Fab Four rocked my world in February of 1964, I mostly paid attention to them and a few other similar British Invaders, but then, in the summer of 1965, I tuned into a rougher English quintet that became their top competitors by expressing a lack of Satisfaction (Song 256). When those moving rockers released this single nine months later, during the winter of 1966, I soon could sing along with it too. Having a mother who had had numerous nervous breakdowns, the chorus lines had some depth for me, though I did not truly understand the term at the time. Back then, a lot of people saw mental problems as an indication that someone was never brought up right, but, in reality, the ones who were always spoiled did not inevitably slide over the mental edge. I got to a much clearer understanding of nervous breakdowns a couple of decades ago, and I try to pass that understanding along to others with my book Expecting the Broken Brain to Do Mental Pushups. You can get a copy of the latest edition of that book from Amazon by clicking on the title.