Sticky Fingers
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| Sticky Fingers | ||
| Image:Stickyfingers.jpg | ||
| Studio album by The Rolling Stones | ||
| Released | 23 April 1971 | |
| Recorded | December 1969 - January 1971, except "Sister Morphine": begun 22-31 March 1969 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 46:25 | |
| Label | Rolling Stones/Virgin | |
| Producer(s) | Jimmy Miller | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| The Rolling Stones chronology | ||
| Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert (1970) | Sticky Fingers (1971) | Exile on Main St. (1972)
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Sticky Fingers is an album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1971. It is the band's first release on their newly-formed Rolling Stones Records label, as well as Mick Taylor's first full-length appearance on a Rolling Stones studio album.
Although sessions for Sticky Fingers began in earnest in March 1970, they had done some early recording at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama in December 1969 ("Wild Horses" as seen in the "Gimme Shelter" movie) and "Sister Morphine", cut during Let It Bleed's sessions earlier in March of that year, would be held over for this release. Much of the recording for Sticky Fingers was effected with The Rolling Stones Mobile Studio unit in Stargroves during the summer and autumn months in 1970. Early versions of songs that would appear on Exile on Main St. were also routined during these sessions.
When Decca informed The Stones that they were owed one more single, they cheekily submitted a track called "Cocksucker Blues" - which was guaranteed to be refused. Instead, Decca released the two-year-old Beggars Banquet track "Street Fighting Man" while Allen Klein would have dual copyright ownership - with The Rolling Stones - of "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses".
With some final overdubbing and mixing in January 1971, the album was complete and preceded by "Brown Sugar" that March, which reached #1 in the US and #2 in the UK. Appearing in April on their new Rolling Stones label (with distribution by WEA Music), Sticky Fingers was critically well-received (with the notable exception of a review in Rolling Stone magazine [1]) and hit #1 worldwide, beginning a string of eight consecutive chart-topping US studio albums.
Two original songs from this album had already appeared in versions by other artists. "Sister Morphine", co-composed by Marianne Faithfull, for which she would finally receive credit on the 1994 Virgin remastering of the album, was the flip of a 1969 single by her. The Stones' perennial ballad "Wild Horses" received a cover in 1970 on the Burrito Deluxe album by The Flying Burrito Brothers, head Burrito (and friend of Keith Richards) Gram Parsons having obtained an advance copy of the song.
"Wild Horses" was the second single in the US only, making the Top 30.
The artwork for Sticky Fingers - including a real zipper - was designed by Andy Warhol and featured the lower torso of actor Joe Dallesandro (not Mick Jagger, as a number of fans at the time have speculated) in a pair of tight jeans. The image attracted controversy due to its emphasis on the obvious bulge in Dallesandro's crotch, which revealed the defined outline of a large and possibly erect penis. In 2003, the US cable television channel VH1 named Sticky Fingers' artwork the greatest album cover of all time. The cover was later parodied by American glam metal band Mötley Crüe on their 1981 debut album Too Fast for Love. The cover was so racy for 1971, that the censors in Spain demanded that it be replaced. A cover featuring a hand emerging from a gooey can of molasses was substituted. This cover, ironically, can be seen as more racy for the one it replaced. They also substitued "Sister Morphine" on that spanish LP by 30 seconds of silence and "Let it Rock", a cover of a Chuck Berry's number also used as the flipside of the "Brown Sugar" single.
The zipper itself ended up causing many problems. It had a tendency to rip up the plastic shrink wrap sealing the album. It also damaged many of the discs of albums crated together. Many people owned copies of the album with a scratch in the middle of "Wild Horses", and "Sister Morphine".
Mick Taylor is reported to have had a hand in composing "Sway" and "Moonlight Mile". He probably also brought the second part riff of "Can't You Hear Me Knocking?" but he was always denied a co-credit.
In 1989, former bassist Bill Wyman opened an American cuisine restaurant in London, England entitled Sticky Fingers.
In 2000 Q magazine placed Sticky Fingers at number 12 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2003, the album was ranked number 63 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It is also #46 on VH1's list of the best albums of all time.
In 1994, Sticky Fingers was remastered and reissued by Virgin Records.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard, except where noted.
- "Brown Sugar" – 3:50
- Keith Richard - electric guitar & acoustic guitar
- Mick Taylor - guitar
- Bill Wyman - bass
- Charlie Watts - drums
- Ian Stewart - piano
- Mick Jagger - vocal & percussion
- Bobby Keys - sax
- "Sway" – 3:51
- Mick Taylor - guitar
- Bill Wyman - bass
- Charlie Watts - drums
- Mick Jagger - vocal & guitar
- Keith Richard - vocal
- Paul Buckmaster - strings
- Nicky Hopkins - piano
- "Wild Horses" – 5:42
- Keith Richard - guitar & vocal
- Mick Taylor - guitar
- Bill Wyman - bass
- Jim Dickinson - tack piano
- Mick Jagger - vocal
- Charlie Watts - drums
- "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" – 7:15
- Keith Richard - guitar & vocals
- Mick Taylor - guitar
- Bill Wyman - bass
- Charlie Watts - drums
- Billy Preston - organ
- Jimmy Miller - percussion
- Rocky Dijon - congas
- Bobby Keys - sax
- Mick Jagger - vocal
- "You Gotta Move" (Fred McDowell, Reverend Gary Davis) – 2:32
- Keith Richard - guitar & vocals
- Mick Taylor - electric slide guitar
- Charlie Watts - drums
- Bill Wyman - electric piano
- Mick Jagger - vocal
- "Bitch" – 3:36
- "I Got The Blues" – 3:53
- Keith Richard - guitar & vocals
- Mick Taylor - guitar
- Bill Wyman - bass
- Charlie Watts - drums
- Bobby Keys - sax
- Jim Price - trumpet
- Mick Jagger - vocal
- Billy Preston - organ
- "Sister Morphine" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richard, Marianne Faithfull) – 5:31
- Charlie Watts - drums
- Bill Wyman - bass
- Keith Richard - guitar
- Ry Cooder - slide guitar
- Mick Jagger - vocal
- Jack Nitzsche - piano
- "Dead Flowers" – 4:03
- Bill Wyman - bass
- Charlie Watts - drums
- Keith Richard - guitar & vocals
- Mick Taylor - guitar
- Mick Jagger - acoustic guitar & vocals
- Ian Stewart - piano
- "Moonlight Mile" – 5:56
- Charlie Watts - drums
- Bill Wyman - bass
- Jim Price - piano
- Mick Jagger - acoustic guitar & vocal
- Mick Taylor - guitars
- Paul Buckmaster - strings
[edit] Trivia
According to Mick Taylor he wrote Sway and Moonlight Mile together with Mick Jagger, but he never received proper credit.
[edit] Personnel
- Mick Jagger - vocals, guitar, percussion
- Keith Richard - guitar, vocals, acoustic guitar
- Mick Taylor - guitar, electric guitar
- Charlie Watts - drums
- Bill Wyman - bass, electric piano
[edit] Additional personnel
- Paul Buckmaster - strings
- Ry Cooder - guitar
- Jim Dickinson - piano
- Rocky Dijon - congas
- Nicky Hopkins - piano
- Bobby Keys - saxophone
- Jimmy Miller - percussion
- Jack Nitzsche - piano
- Billy Preston - organ
- Jim Price - trumpet, piano
- Ian Stewart - piano
[edit] Charts
Album
| Year | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 1971
1994 | UK Top 50 Albums
UK Top 75 Albums | 1
74 |
| 1971
1972 1978 1980 1981 | Billboard Pop Albums
Billboard Pop Albums Billboard Pop Albums Billboard Pop Albums Billboard Pop Albums | 1
126 134 181 133 |
Single
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | "Brown Sugar/Bitch/Let It Rock" | UK Top 50 Singles | 2 |
| 1971 | "Brown Sugar" | The Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
| 1971 | "Wild Horses" | The Billboard Hot 100 | 28 |
[edit] Certifications
| Organization | Level | Date |
|---|---|---|
| RIAA – USA | Gold | May 11 1971 |
| RIAA – USA | Platinum | May 31 2000 |
| RIAA – USA | 2x Platinum | May 31 2000 |
| RIAA – USA | 3x Platinum | May 31 2000 |
| The Rolling Stones |
|---|
| Mick Jagger | Keith Richards | Charlie Watts | Ron Wood |
| Former members |
| Brian Jones | Bill Wyman | Mick Taylor | Ian Stewart | Dick Taylor |
| See also |
| Chuck Leavell | Darryl Jones | Andrew Loog Oldham | Allen Klein |
| Related articles |
| Discography | The Glimmer Twins | Nanker Phelge | Rolling Stones Records | Rock and Roll Circus |
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