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By Dana Milbank The Washington Post
< snip > The Rolling Stones will launch a new album in September, and the music trade press was abuzz last week with word that it may include a track criticizing the Bush administration’s foreign policy. The song, “Sweet Neo-Con,” is said to be one of 18 tracks that have been recorded; 11 will wind up on the CD.
< snip > Not so, says Stones publicist Fran Curtis. The song “is not about nor does it mention Bush or his administration.” Curtis did not say what it is about, but no matter: It’s Only Rock ’n Roll.
Regardless, this got the Democratic Leadership Council’s Marshall Wittmann thinking. He suggested that the White House could form its own band, “the Stonewalls,” with Scott McClellan on vocals, Ari Fleischer on bass, Nicolle Devenish on guitar and Karen Hughes on drums.
Its warm-up act: the Talking Heads, featuring Tim Russert on vocals, Howard Fineman on bass, Norman Ornstein on guitar and George Will on drums.
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