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Lesson 1: Rock Superstars: What Do They Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society? Rock is the music of teenage rebellion 青少年反叛的音乐. --- John Rockwell, rock music critic By a mans heroes通过（借助）一个人眼中的英雄 we shall know him. --- Robert Penn Warren, novelist It was mid-June, 1972, the Chicago Amphitheater圆形露天剧场 was packed ……挤满了人, sweltering, rocking. Onstage在台上，上台, Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones was singing Midnight Rambler漫步者；漫谈者. Critic Don Heckman was there when the song ended. Jagger, he said, grabs a half-gallon jug（有柄的）水罐 of water and runs along the front platform, sprinkling喷，洒，喷淋 its contents over the first few rows of sweltering热气逼人，（使）汗流浃背；（使）中暑 listeners满身汗流的歌迷. They surge to follow him, eager to be touched by a few baptismal洗礼的 drops（基督教）洗礼仪式洒的水滴. It was late December, 1973, Some 14,000 screaming fans were crunching发出嘈杂声地走，嘎吱作响地走；嘎吱嘎吱地咬嚼 up to蜂拥挤向 the front of the stage at Capital Center, outside Washington, D.C. Alice Cooper, Americas singing ghoul以恐吓人（或恐怖事件）为乐的人：食尸鬼 鬼魂歌星, was ending his act正在结束他的演出. He ends it by pretending to end his life - with a guillotine断头台 假装结束自己的生命---用断头台. His head drops into a straw basket. Ooh, gasped喘气；（因惊喜、震惊等而）喘着气说 a girl dressed in black. Oh, isnt that marvelous? Fourteen-year-old Mick Perlie was there too, but his parents werent. They think hes sick, sick, sick, Mike said. They say to me, `How can you stand that stuff ? 他们问我怎么能忍受那种东西呢？ It was late January, 1974. Inside the Nassau Coliseum体育场 in Uniondale, New York, Bob Dylan and The Band were tuning调音 for a concert. Outside, in the pouring rain, fan Chris Singer was waiting to get in. This is pilgrimage朝圣, Chris said, I ought to be crawling趴 on my knees. How do you feel about all this adulation过分赞美，奉承 and hero worship英雄崇拜? （译：你如何看待这种赞美和英雄崇拜？）When Mick Jaggers fans look at him as a high priest or a god把他视作主教或神, are you with them or against them? Do you share Chris Singers al