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 called Margot Le Roux, intends to keep her son in ignorance of his crime. His companions – who do know – leave the girl to die. What happens when a man of absolute integrity finds himself trapped in a world of absolute corruption?ĭuring 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. **LONGLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL AWARD 2019** Martin Scorsese used the track-the solo version by Mick Jagger, incorrectly credited as the Rolling Stones version-in a scene from Goodfellas where Ray Liotta's character Henry Hill is driving to the hospital to pick up his brother after unsuccessfully trying to sell some pistol silencers to Jimmy Conway.**SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER 2019** Ronnie Wood performed "Memo from Turner" live at various club gigs in 1987-88, including some of his shows with Bo Diddley.
Burroughs and writer Robert Palmer assume this connection in a 1972 Rolling Stone magazine interview, and strong Burroughsian themes are contained in the film. The lyric about "the man who works the soft machine" may be a reference to the William S. It's not a celebration of the gangster mentality, though, so much as a subtle, mocking look at its decadence, with hints of repressed homosexuality and almost gruesome imagery of dog-eat-dog behavior." The music isn't grim, though it's more in a sly, ironic happy-go-lucky vein, as if to illustrate the callous, carefree glee gangsters take in such antics. puts on his best drawling speak-sing voice for the lyrics, spinning bizarre mini-snapshots of decadent, cruel gangster behavior.
The tape of Jagger's vocals was sent to Jack Nitzsche, where all music parts were recorded by Ry Cooder on slide guitar, Russ Titelman (guitar), Randy Newman (piano), Jerry Scheff (bass) and Gene Parsons (drums).īesides the differing lineup between the two released versions, there are also slight changes to the lyrics. This track was recorded in Los Angeles in early 1970, and uses the vocal track of the first, slow version. This is the more well-known version of the song, as it was released as a solo single by Jagger in England in 1970 and is featured on the later Singles Collection: The London Years. It is featured prominently in the movie, with Mick Jagger, as Turner, lip-synching it.
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The third version of the song, typified by its slide guitar, was the one recorded for the soundtrack to the movie Performance, starring Mick Jagger as the song title's "Turner". Credited to "Jagger/Richards", it is not clear how many of the Rolling Stones besides Jagger actually played on it. Either Charlie Watts or Capaldi plays drums on this recording.
This version supposedly features Al Kooper on guitar, and perhaps Keith Richards as well. The second version, released on Metamorphosis in 1975 on the Allen Klein Decca/London pre-existing legacy contracts of the Stones 1960s recordings, was a different version recorded by The Rolling Stones in November 1968, and has a looser feel than the released version. It features Steve Winwood on all instruments except drums, which are played by Jim Capaldi. The first version, which is not officially released, is a slow, brooding version recorded by members of the band Traffic. Three different versions of "Memo from Turner" have been released, and another version is available on bootleg recordings.
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