Mick and Keith Salute NYC -1978

No doubt one of the best tuned ever written about our town, "Shattered" was recorded by the Rolling Stones in 1978 on their album "Some Girls." Here are some of the lyrics:

All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter
'bout Shmatta, shmatta, shmatta -- I can't give it away on 7th Avenue
This town's been wearing tatters (shattered, shattered)
Work and work for love and sex Ain't you hungry for success, success,
success, success Does it matter? (Shattered)
Does it matter? I'm shattered.
Shattered Ahhh, look at me, I'm a shattered I'm a shattered Look at me-

I'm a shattered, yeah

Pride and joy and greed and sex
That's what makes our town the best
Pride and joy and dirty dreams and still surviving on the street
And look at me, I'm in tatters, yeah
I've been battered, what does it matter Does it matter, uh-huh Does
it matter, uh-huh,
I'm a shattered

Don't you know the crime rate is going up, up, up, up, up
To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough! You got
rats on the west side
Bed bugs uptown
What a mess this town's in tatters
I've been shattered

My brain's been battered, splattered all over Manhattan
Uh-huh, this town's full of money grabbers
Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don't mind the maggots, huh
Shadoobie, my brain's been battered
My friends they come around they Flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter,
flatter, flatter, flatter
Pile it up, pile it high on the platter

Who can forget the band's performance of this tune on Saturday Night Live.