The chorus rolls around again, this time with the lift, followed by the bridge, which delivers yet another hook: "What you say now, give it to me baby / I want it all night, give it to me baby," sung over a nasty-sounding snare drum (which, like all the instrumental sounds, is machine-made).
It was the music, the artist, and the community of fans — instant cousinship, as Graham called it — together with the sudden blaze of lights, the press of sweaty flesh, and a thousand fists punching the air as the chorus rolled around.
Where at first it is unaccompanied and dominant, in time, when the choruses roll around, it's subordinated to other guitars.
My first serious turn at karaoke: beneath the dull, turquoise lights of The Joiners Arms, in which I emptied the dancefloor by sadly murmuring the words to Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" to a chorus of eye rolls.
When the Indian official in charge of the games, Suresh Kalmadi, rose to give a speech, a prolonged chorus of boos rolled through the stadium.
Gimme Shelter is a Greek tragedy with a rock 'n' roll chorus and a triple injection of hubris.
It's a little what I'm hearing more of now, those tight wound, unmated guitars that can blow up into a proper rock and roll chorus.
If that chorus doesn't roll around your head on an hourly basis then you've been listening to music wrong all year so far. Josh Baines.
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Beth is a singer whose spiritual thoughts carry an echo of rock 'n' roll choruses: "By 30 I reckon I'll be purified or dead".
