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高级英语上册 Lesson 1: Rock Superstars: What Do They Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society? Rock is the music of teenage rebellion. John Rockwell, rock music critic By a man’s heroes ye shall know him. Robert Penn Warren, novelist It was mid-June, 1972, the Chicago Amphitheater was packed, sweltering, rocking. Onstage, Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones was singing “Midnight Rambler.” Critic Don Heckman was there when the song ended. “Jagger,” he said, “grabs a half-gallon jug of water and runs along the front platform, sprinkling its contents over the first few rows of sweltering listeners. They surge to follow him, eager to be touched by a few baptismal drops”. It was late December, 1973, Some 14,000 screaming fans were crunching up to the front of the stage at Capital Center, outside Washington, D.C.Alice Cooper, America’s singing ghoul, was ending his act. He ends it by pretending to end his life – with a guillotine. His “head” drops into a straw basket. “Ooh,” gasped a girl dressed in black. “Oh, isn’t that marvelous?” Fourteen-year-old Mick Perlie was there too, but his parents weren’t. “They think he’s sick, sick, sick,” Mike said. “They say to me, ‘How can you stand that stuff?’” It was late January, 1974. Inside the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, Bob Dylan and The Band were tuning for a concert. Outside, in the pouring rain, fan Chris Singer was waiting to get in. “ This is pilgrimage,” Chris said, “I ought to be crawling on my knees.” How do you feel about all this adulation and hero worship? When Mick Jagger’s fans look at him as a high priest or a god, are you with them or against them? Do you share Chris Singer’s almost religious reverence for Bob Dylan? Do you think he – or Dylan – is misguided? Do you reject Alice Cooper as sick? Or are you drawn somehow to this strange clown, perhaps because he acts out your wildest fantasies? These aren’t idle questions. Some sociologists say that your answers to them could explain a lot a