Sway (The Rolling Stones song)
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| Song by The Rolling Stones | |||||
| Album | Sticky Fingers | ||||
| Released | April 23, 1971 | ||||
| Recorded | October 1970 | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 3m:51s | ||||
| Label | Rolling Stones/Virgin | ||||
| Writer | Jagger/Richards | ||||
| Producer | Jimmy Miller | ||||
| Sticky Fingers track listing | |||||
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"Sway" is a song by the English rock 'n roll band The Rolling Stones from their 1971 album Sticky Fingers.
Credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Sway" was the first song recorded by the band at Stargroves. It is a slower blues song, thought by many to allude to the deaths of friends and companions from the rock and roll lifestyle. Although the song is credited to Jagger/Richards, Mick Taylor has always stated that he wrote this song with Mick Jagger, as well as Moonlight Mile from the same album.
| “ | Ain't flinging tears out on the dusty ground for all my friends out on the burial ground. Can't stand the feeling getting so brought down. It's just that demon life has got me in its sway. | ” |
The song features a bottle neck slide solo towards the middle of the song and a dramatic outro solo performed by Mick Taylor. The strings on the piece were arranged by Paul Buckmaster, who also worked on other songs from Sticky Fingers.
It was performed to much surprise at many of the shows on the band's A Bigger Bang Tour in 2006. Guns N' Roses also performed the track on a handful of occasions during 2006, when founding member Izzy Stradlin guested with Axl Rose. Izzy handled lead vocals during the performances.
