So remember who you say you are and keep your noses clean.īoys will be boys and play with toys so be strong with your beast. They have a tasty habit - they eat the hands that bleed. When the old men do the fighting and the young men all look on.Īnd the young girls eat their mothers meat from tubes of plasticon.īe wary of these my gentle friends of all the skins you breed. You'll still be in the circus when I'm laughing, laughing on my grave. Turner goes to Cape Town to start investigating, but the task is not so easy because the crime was committed by a group of rich white guys. The main character Turner is trying to find enough evidence to bring justice to the homeless little girl who was murdered. You're the man who squats behind the man who works the soft machine.Ĭome now, gentleman, your love is all I crave. Memo from Turner is about, an officer investigating a hit and run. You're the great, gray man whose daughter licks policemen's buttons clean.

You're the misbred, grey executive I've seen heavily advertised. Weren't you at the Coke convention back on nineteen sixty-five Your organs working perfectly, but there's a part that's not screwed on. You're a faggy little leather boy with a smaller piece of stick. I remember you in Hemlock Road in nineteen fifty-six. How forgetful I'm becoming, now you fixed your bus'ness straight. You know, that Spanish-speaking gentlemen, the one we all called 'Kurt.'Ĭome now, gentleman, I know there's some mistake. We were eating eggs in Sammy's when the black man there drew his knife.Īw, you drowned that Jew in Rampton as he washed his sleeveless shirt, In 2012, the band celebrated its 50th anniversary.ĭidn't I see you down in San Antone on a hot and dusty night? In 2008, the band ranked 10th on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists chart. Sticky Fingers (1971) was the first of eight consecutive No. Let It Bleed (1969) marked the first of five consecutive No. They have released 30 studio albums, 23 live albums and numerous compilations. Rolling Stone magazine ranked them fourth on the '100 Greatest Artists of All Time' list and their estimated record sales are above 250 million. The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004. Their musical focus shifted from covering blues songs to writing original material, a decision with which Jones did not agree. The band's primary songwriters, Jagger and Richards, assumed leadership after Andrew Loog Oldham became the group's manager. Brian Jones was the original leader of the group. Stewart was removed from the official line-up in 1963 but continued as a touring member until his death in 1985. The first stable line-up consisted of Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica), Mick Jagger (lead vocals), Keith Richards (guitar, backing vocals), Bill Wyman (bass), Charlie Watts (drums), and Ian Stewart (piano). As the battle of wills escalates, and the moral contradictions multiply, Turner won’t be bought and won’t be bullied, and when they try to bury him he rediscovers, during a desperate odyssey to the very brink of death, a long-forgotten truth about himself …īy the time Willocks’ tale is finished, fourteen men have died, and he shows once again that he is the laureate of the violent thriller.The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962. When Turner travels to the remote mining town that Margot owns-including the local police and private security force-he finds her determined to protect her son at any cost. But by chance the case falls to the relentless Warrant Officer Turner of Cape Town Homicide. Why should his life be ruined for a nameless girl who was already terminally ill? No one will care and the law is cheap. The driver’s mother, a self-made mining magnate named Margot Le Roux, intends to keep her son in ignorance of his crime. His companions-who do know-leave the girl to die. During a weekend spree in Cape Town a young, rich Afrikaner fatally injures a teenage street girl with his Range Rover but is too drunk to know that he has hit her.

Memo from turner