“Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Heartbreaker” by The Rolling Stones

Don't let the sing-song title fool you: "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" is a dispatch from the dark side of the city, sitting fourth in the running order of Goats Head Soup, the Rolling Stones' album from 1973. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote it, Jimmy Miller produced it, and the lyric spins two stories about children. In one, New York cops gun down a boy they have mistaken for somebody else; in the other, a ten-year-old girl dies of an overdose in an alley, a tale nobody has tied to a real event.

The first had a real-life echo. In April 1973, plainclothes police in Queens stopped 10-year-old Clifford Glover and his father at gunpoint, the two ran, and an officer shot the boy dead. The officer was indicted for murder and acquitted by a jury, and the case set off riots.

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