This morning I was trying to put the 29 year old Swedish-born Argentine folk singer Jose Gonzalez into some sort of non-musical context for tonight's
October 13, 2007

This morning I was trying to put the 29 year old Swedish-born Argentine folk singer Jose Gonzalez into some sort of non-musical context for tonight's LNMC. I was eager to feature either his first hit, "Heartbeats" or his cover of the Joy Division classic "Love Will Tear Us Apart". So I started writing a story about an Argentine priest who was just found guilty of genocide, murder and torture and I started thinking about the priest's claim that "in 2,000 years of history, no priest of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church has violated the sacraments." That lead me away from Gonzalez and towards the LSD-soaked early days on the Rolling Stones. I figured you might enjoy it more anyway:

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