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By KEN EMERSON AND SHEILA  |  December 3, 2009

From the opening notes of "Midnight Rambler" Mick had the entire audience wet between its legs. The beat raced. Mick became the hero-rapist and the music supported his role. He crouched face-down on the floor and flailed the stage and straining teenage hands with his silver-studded belt. "Come Live With Me," and "Honky Tonk Woman" (cheaply dedicated to "the loose women in the house"), and then Mick lept with calculated savvy into the air, did a split, and gave us "Satisfaction." By this time the house lights were on. Mick wanted to see "how beeyewtifool" we were. The scene was spectacular in Kleig daylight.

Mick paced and stalked, pouted and minced, brandishing the mike stand like a phallic bludgeon. This slight, sylph-like figure filled out, swelled his larger-than-life reputation. He accomplished what he had set out to do. He bedazzled the thousands. Although everyone was on his feet, few danced—it was Mick's show, a celebration of him, not us. He came as close as he could to immortality. His closing, guttural promise to "see us again" was a threat.

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