Sticky Fingers
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| Studio album by The Rolling Stones | ||
| Released | 23 April 1971 | |
| Recorded | 2-4 December 1969, 17 February 1970, March-May 1970, 16 June-27 July 1970, 17 - 31 October 1970, January 1971, except "Sister Morphine": begun 22-31 March 1969 |
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| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 46 min 25 s | |
| 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) |
Sticky Fingers is an album by The Rolling Stones and was released in 1971. It is notable for being the band's first release on their newly-formed Rolling Stones Records label after having been contracted since 1963 with Decca Records in the UK and London Records in the US. It is also Mick Taylor's first full-length appearance on a Rolling Stones album.
Although sessions for Sticky Fingers began in earnest in March 1970, they had done some early recording at Muscle Shoals Studios in Alabama in December 1969 and "Sister Morphine", cut during Let It Bleed's sessions earlier in March of that year, would be heldover 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 fall months in 1970. Early versions of songs that would appear on Exile on Main St. were also routined during these sessions.
With the end of their Decca/London association at hand, The Rolling Stones would finally be free to release their albums (cover art and all) as they pleased. However, soon-to-be-ex-manager Allen Klein (who took over the reins from Andrew Loog Oldham in 1965 so that Oldham could concentrate on producing the band), dealt the group a major blow when they discovered - to their horror - that they had inadvertently signed over their entire 1960s copyrights to Klein and his company ABKCO, which is how all of their material from 1963's "Come On" to 'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!' The Rolling Stones in Concert has since come to be released by ABKCO Records. The band would remain incensed with Klein for decades over the swindle.
When Decca informed The Rolling 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 rapturously-received and hit #1 worldwide, beginning an uninterrupted string of eight consecutive chart-topping US studio albums. "Wild Horses", covered by Keith Richard's friend Gram Parsons with The Flying Burrito Brothers, was the second single in the US only, making the Top 30.
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[edit] Trivia
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 speculated) in a pair of tight jeans [1]. The cover was later parodied by American band Mötley Crüe on their debut album Too Fast For Love.
Mick Taylor was reported to have had a hand in composing "Moonlight Mile" but was denied a co-credit.
In 1989, former bassist Bill Wyman opened an American cuisine restaurant entitled "Sticky Fingers".
In 2003, Sticky Fingers was listed as number 63 on the List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time while in 2003 the TV network VH1 named Sticky Fingers the 46th greatest album of all time.
In 1994, Sticky Fingers was remastered and reissued by Virgin Records.
[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.
- "Brown Sugar" – 3:50
- Features Bobby Keys on saxophone and Ian Stewart on piano
- "Sway" – 3:51
- Strings arranged by Paul Buckmaster
- Features Nicky Hopkins on piano
- "Wild Horses" – 5:42
- Features Jim Dickinson on piano
- "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" – 7:15
- Features Billy Preston on organ, Bobby Keys on saxophone, Rocky Dijon on congas and percussion by Jimmy Miller
- "You Gotta Move" (Fred McDowell/Rev. Gary Davis) – 2:32
- "Bitch" – 3:36
- "I Got the Blues" – 3:53
- Features Bobby Keys on saxaphone, Jim Price on trumpet and Billy Preston on organ
- "Sister Morphine" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards/Marianne Faithfull) – 5:31
- "Dead Flowers" – 4:03
- Features Ian Steward on piano
- "Moonlight Mile" – 5:56
- Strings arranged by Paul Buckmaster
- Features Jim Price on piano
[edit] Personnel
See track listing for additional personnel.
- Mick Jagger - vocals, guitar on tracks 2, 9 and 10, percussion on track 1
- Keith Richards - guitar, vocals, acoustic guitar on track 1
- Mick Taylor - guitar
- Bill Wyman - bass guitar, electric piano on track 5
- Charlie Watts - drums
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