Trump Fires Away--Democracy in Peril

Cartoonists raise alarms. Plus: Marianne Faithfull and a Gram full of "Wild Horses."

Greg Mitchell is the author of more than a dozen books (see link) and now writer/director of three award-winning films aired via PBS, including “Atomic Cover-up” and “Memorial Day Massacre” which are still up at PBS.org. Watch trailer for my acclaimed 2025 film “The Atomic Bowl.” Before all that, he was a longtime editor of the legendary Crawdaddy. At Blue Sky and Twitter both as @gregmitch. You can still subscribe to this newsletter for FREE.

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I offered a full tribute to Marianne Faithfull a few days back but did not mention the claim that she inspired Mick to write “Wild Horses” in 1969 when, coming out of a health scare of OD, she awoke and allegedly said, “wild horses couldn’t drag me away.” In any case, great song, but did you know that Gram Parsons recorded it with the Burritos as a gift from Keith and they released it before the classic Stones’ version? It long was claimed (now debunked) that Gram may have written the song himself, since he was so tight and druggy with Keith at the time and we know the Stones were influenced by Gram’s countryish songs.

Marianne’s live version here, 1990:

Cartoons Saturday!

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