Sweet Old World was released by Chameleon in 1992. One of the songs that is significant is “Hot Blood” because it was the first time I’d written explicitly about lust, which is one of those things that women aren’t supposed to do, even though the history of rock and roll could be told from men writing songs about lust. You could go on and on with examples, like “Brown Sugar” and “Let’s Spend the Night Together” by the Stones, “The Lemon Song” by Zeppelin, “Foxey Lady” by Hendrix, “Light My Fire” by the Doors, “Sexual Healing” by Marvin Gaye, and almost everything James Brown ever did, to name
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