The January 2022 installment of Real Life Rock Top 10 features Cat Power, Get Back, Beyonce, Dave Grohl, “Brown Sugar,” and more.
Note also that this is the final installment of RLR at Los Angeles Review of Books; the column will be moving to Substack next month.
That Kara Walker/”Brown Sugar” account was powerful enough to make me question even the possibility of live performance interaction, ever, even though I knew/know that has appeared to have happened other times and elsewhere.
Also the line: “Black people died for your art” is about as good a motto for Black History Month as any.