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Keith Richards: "Mick and I were in my house (laughs) in England in the country... and we'd been up all night and it was 6:30 in the morning, a dismal day, you know, English, grey. And we were just both crashing, Mick was on the couch and I was in an armchair with a guitar and we were, like, on the verge. And suddenly this sound of these boots (laughs) went by the window, clump clump clump - really, I mean, you had to be there to hear it - and woke Mick up, What was that? And I said - I looked out the window and I thought, Oh, that's Jack, that's jumpin' Jack. You know and then we started to play with those words. But I mean, really, it was sort of virtually woke up out of a stupor by this guy's boots, he was my gardener, he was a great guy but he's another story. And but... I just said, That's Jack. Well he's leaping about a bit. Yeah, I said, it's jumpin' Jack and then flash came and suddenly we were wide awake and we started to work, you know. You never know when they're going to come." (2003)

Keith Richards: "Jumpin' Jack Flash comes from this guy Jack Dyer, who was my gardener. He'd lived out in the country all his life. I'll put it this way: Jack Dyer, an old English yokel. I once said, Have you ever been to town? And town, to an Englishman, means London, right? And he says, Oh Yeah, I was up there V.E. Day, when the war finished. That cathedral is something. He meant Chichester, the local big town, seven miles away... Mick says, Flash. He'd just woken up. And suddenly we had this wonderful alliterative phrase. So he woke up and we knocked it together. ... And the only guitar in the house was tuned that way. It's really Satisfaction in reverse. Almost an interchangeable riff, except it's played on chords instead of a Gibson Maestro Fuzztone." (1997)
**KILL ME**

(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)*

Mick Jagger � lead vocals, backing vocals, maracas
Keith Richards � guitars, bass guitar, floor tom, backing vocals
Brian Jones � guitars
Bill Wyman � Hammond Organ
Charlie Watts � drums
Ian Stewart � piano
Jimmy Miller � backing vocals

Produced: Jimmy Miller
Engineered: ??
Recorded at: Olympic Studios, London, England, April 20, 1968
(*Bill Wyman,unacredited)
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Keith Richards: "It was just a riff. I didn't think... I didn't think of it as... I woke up in the middle of the night, put it down on a cassette. I thought it was great then. Went to sleep and when I woke up, it appeared to be as useful as another album track. It was the same with Mick too at the time, you know. It goes da-da, da-da-da... and the words I'd written for that riff were I can't get no satisfaction. But it could just as well have been Auntie Millie's Caught Her Left Tit in the Mangle." ()

Mick Jagger: "It sounded like a folk song when we first started working on it and Keith didn't like it much, he didn't want it to be a single, he didn't think it would do very well... I think Keith thought it was a bit basic. I don't think he really listened to it properly. He was too close to it and just felt it was a silly kind of riff... (We wrote it in) Tampa, Florida, by a swimming pool." (1968)

Mick Jagger: "Keith wrote the lick. I think he had this lyric, I can't get no satisfaction, which, actually, is a line in a Chuck Berry song called 30 Days... I can't get no satisfaction from the judge... (T)hat was just one line, and then I wrote the rest of it. There was no melody, really." (1995)
**KILL ME**

(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead vocals, backing vocals
Keith Richards � electric guitars, backing vocals
Brian Jones � acoustic guitar
Bill Wyman � bass guitar
Charlie Watts � drums
Jack Nitzsche � piano, tambourine

Produced: Andrew Loog Oldham
Engineered: Jack Nitzsche, Dave Hassinger
Recorded at: RCA Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Cal., USA, May 12, 1965
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Keith Richards: "I wrote Honky Tonk Women as a straight Hank Williams-Jimmie Rodgers sort of number. Later, when we were fooling around with it trying to make it sound funkier, we hit on the sound we had on the single. We all thought, Wow, this has got to be a hit single. And it was, and it did fantastically well. It's the sort of song that transcends all tastes." (1969)

Keith Richards: "I know what we did do in South America. Went to a ranch and wrote Honky Tonk Women because it was into a cowboy thing. All these spades are fantastic cowboys. Beautiful ponies and quarter horses. Miles from anywhere. Just like being in Arizona or something." (1971)

Keith Richards: "Mick and I were sitting on the porch of this ranch house and I started to play, basically fooling around with an old Hank Williams idea, you know." (2003)
**KILL ME**

(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead vocals
Keith Richards � lead guitar, rhythm guitar, background vocals
Mick Taylor � lead guitar
Bill Wyman � bass
Charlie Watts � drums
Ian Stewart � piano
Jimmy Miller � cowbell
Steve Gregory � saxophones
Bud Beadle � saxophones
Nanette Workman � background vocals (as "Nanette Newman")
Doris Troy � background vocals
Reparata and the Delrons � background vocals

Produced: Jimmy Miller
Engineered: ??
Recorded at: Olympic Studios, London, England, June 1969
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Mick Jagger: "I've got a new one myself. No words yet, but a few words in my head - called Brown Sugar - about a woman who screws one of her black servants. I started to call it Black Pussy but I decided that was too direct, too nitty-gritty." (1969)

Mick Jagger: "I wrote that song in Australia in the middle of a field. They were really odd circumstances. I was doing this movie, Ned Kelly, and my hand had got really damaged in this action sequence. So stupid. I was trying to rehabilitate my hand and I had this new kind of electric guitar, and I was playing in the middle of the outback and wrote this tune. But why it works? I mean, it's a good groove and all that. I mean, the groove is slightly similar to Freddy Cannon, this rather obscure '50s rock performer - Tallahassee Lassie or something. Do you remember this? She's down in F-L-A. Anyway, the groove of that - boom-boom-boom-boom-boom - is going to a go-go or whatever, but that's the groove." (1995)

Mick Jagger: "At the end of the '60s I had a little more time to sit around and play my guitar, writing songs rather than just lyrics for the first time. I'd written songs before then, but they were little things like Yesterday's Papers. Now I could take it more seriously. Brown Sugar was one of those songs. I wrote it in Australia, somewhere between Melbourne and Sydney, while I was in my trailer filming Ned Kelly - I had a whole bunch of time out there. I was simply writing what I wanted to write, not trying to test the waters. People are very quick to react to what you write, but I just write what comes into my head." (2003)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead vocals, percussion
Keith Richards � electric guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Bill Wyman � bass guitar
Charlie Watts � drums
Ian Stewart � piano
Bobby Keys � tenor saxophone
Uncredited musicians � strings

Produced: Jimmy Miller
Engineered: Jimmy Johnson
Recorded at: Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, USA, Dec 2�4, 1969
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Keith Richards: "I wrote Gimmie Shelter on a stormy day, sitting in Robert Fraser's apartment in Mount Street. Anita was shooting Performance at the time, not far away... It was just a terrible fucking day and it was storming out there. I was sitting there in Mount Street and there was this incredible storm over London, so I got into that mode, just looking out of Robert's window and looking at all these people with their umbrellas being blown out of their grasp and running like hell. And the idea came to me... My thought was storms on other people's minds, not mine. It just happened to hit the moment." (2010:Life)

Mick Jagger: "That song was written during the Vietnam War and so it's very much about the awareness that war is always present; it was very present in life at that point. Mary Clayton who did the backing vocals, was a background singer who was known to one of the producers. Suddenly, we wanted someone to sing in the middle of the night. And she was around. She came with her curlers in, straight from bed, and had to sing this really odd lyric. For her it was a little odd - for anyone, in the middle of the night, to sing this one verse I would have been odd. She was great."

Mick Jagger: "We did Gimme Shelter in a big room at Olympic Studios, and then did the overdubs in LA with Merry Clayton. In London Keith had been playing the groove a few times on his own - although I think Brian was still around at that point; he might even have been in the studio actually - but there was no vocal. The use of the female voice was the producer's idea". (2003)


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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead vocals, harmonica
Keith Richards � guitars, backing vocals
Bill Wyman � bass
Charlie Watts � drums
Nicky Hopkins � piano
Jimmy Miller � percussion
Merry Clayton � backing vocals (as "Mary Clayton")

Produced: Jimmy Miller
Engineered: Glyn Johns
Recorded at: Olympic Studios, London, England, 23 Feb. 23 & Nov. 2 1969
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Mick Jagger: "The idea of the song has to do with our public persona at the time. I was getting a bit tired of people having a go, all that, 'oh, it's not as good as their last one' business. The single sleeve had a picture of me with a pen digging into me as if it were a sword. It was a lighthearted, anti-journalistic sort of thing." (1993:Jump Back liner notes)

Mick Jagger: "I wrote it quickly one day...It's a bit rock 'n' roll revival in parts...but that was done quite subconsciously. It was originally done with just me and Ronnie Wood. David just happened to come by the studio when we were doing the vocal."

Mick Jagger: "The title has been used a lot by journalists, the phrase has become a big thing. That version that's on there is the original version, which was recorded half in Ron Wood's basement, if I remember rightly. It was a demo. It's a very Chuck Berry song, but it's got a different feeling to it than a Chuck Berry song. "
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)*

Mick Jagger - lead vocals
Keith Richards - lead guitar
Ron Wood - 12�string acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Willie Weeks - bass
Kenney Jones - drums
Ian Stewart � piano
David Bowie - backing vocals

Produced: The Glimmver Twins (Jagger/Richards)
Engineered: ??
Recorded at: "The Wick" (Wood's house), Richmond, London, England, 1973�1974
(*Ron Wood, unacredited) **KILL ME**

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Mick Jagger: "Tumbling Dice was written to fit Keith's riff. It's about gambling and love, an old blues trick. I had a lot of friends at that time who used to fly to Las Vegas for the weekend." (1993)

Keith Richards: "This was done in the basement of my house, this grand Edwardian Villa called Villa Nellcote in Villefranche in Cap-sur-mer (sic), where we did all of Exile. I remember writing the riff upstairs in the very elegant front room, and we took it downstairs the same evening and we cut it. A lot of time when ideas come that quick, we don't put down lyrics, we do what what we call vowel movement. You just bellow over the top of it, to get the right sounds for the track." (1993)

Mick Jagger: "Keith and me (wrote it). I wrote the lyrics. (He did the groove.)... It comes back to that thing where I really don't remember who had the melody or not, but it doesn't really matter. I don't really know what people like about it. I don't think it's our best stuff. I don't think it has good lyrics. But people seem to really like it, so good for them." (1995)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger - lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Keith Richards - lead guitar, backing vocals
Mick Taylor - bass
Charlie Watts - drums
Jimmy Miller - drums (coda)
Nicky Hopkins - piano
Bobby Keys - sax
Jim Price - trumpet, trombone
Clydie King - backing vocals
Vanetta Fields - backing vocals
friend - backing vocals

Produced: Jimmy Miller
Engineered: Glyn Johns, Andy Johns, Joe Zagarino
Recorded at: Villa Nellc�te, France, 1971
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Mick Jagger: "It was a very strange time in France. But not only in France but also in America, because of the Vietnam War and these endless disruptions.... I wrote a lot of the melody and all the words, and Keith and I sat around and made this wonderful track, with Dave Mason playing the shehnai on it live. It's a kind of Indian reed instrument a bit like a primitive clarinet. It comes in at the end of the tune. It has a very wailing, strange sound." (1995)

Keith Richards: "The music came first � before Mick wrote the lyrics. I had written most of the melody to Street Fighting Man sometime in late 1966 or early '67 � before Jumpin' Jack Flash � but I couldn't figure out how to get the sound I wanted. It's hard to explain. If you think of a melody as a song's shape, then the sound is its texture. The two were inseparable in my mind. I tried recording the melody in the studio in '67 but nothing happened. So I took the concept home to my Redlands farmhouse in Sussex, England, to work on it." (2013)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � vocals, percussion
Keith Richards � amplified acoustic guitars, bass guitar
Brian Jones � sitar, tamboura
Charlie Watts � drums
Dave Mason � shehnai, bass drum
Nicky Hopkins � piano

Produced: Jimmy Miller
Engineered: Eddie Kramer, Glyn Johns
Recorded at: Olympic Studios, London, England, 1968
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Mick Jagger: "People began to say that song was written about David Bowie's wife but the truth is that Keith wrote the title. He said, 'Angie,' and I think it was to do with his daughter. She's called Angela. And then I just wrote the rest of it."

Keith Richards: "While I was in the [Vevey drug] clinic (in March-April 1972), Anita was down the road having our daughter, Angela. Once I came out of the usual trauma, I had a guitar with me and I wrote 'Angie' in an afternoon, sitting in bed, because I could finally move my fingers and put them in the right place again, and I didn't feel like I had to s--t the bed or climb the walls or feel manic anymore. I just went, 'Angie, Angie.' It was not about any particular person; it was a name, like ohhh, Diana. I didn't know Angela was going to be called Angela when I wrote 'Angie.' In those days you didn't know what sex the thing was going to be until it popped out." (2010:Life)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead and backing vocals
Keith Richards � electric/acoustic guitarS, backing vocals
Mick Taylor � electric/acoustic/slide guitars, backing vocals
Bill Wyman � bass guitar
Charlie Watts � drums
Nicky Hopkins � piano
Bobby Keys � tenor/baritone saxophone
Jim Horn � flute, alto saxophone
Chuck Findley � trumpet
Nicky Harrison � string arrangement

Produced: Jimmy Miller
Engineered/Mixed: Andy Johns
Recorded at: Dynamic Sound Studio, Kingston, Jamaica
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Mick Jagger: "I always say Let's spend the night together to any young lady I'm taking out. If people have warped, twisted, dirty minds, I suppose it could have sexual overtones. Actually the song isn't very rude. When you hear it you'll realise this. There are a few slightly rude bits, but I've covered them up." (1967)

Keith Richards: "Yeah, I played piano on Let's Spend the Night Together, and then I overdubbed the guitar. To me that song was a progression from Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby?. It was like Have You Seen Your Mother was a step toward Let's Spend the Night Together, because the chords and the structure of the song are very similar. And the fact that I'd wrote them both on piano, one was almost the same as the other." (1982)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead/backing vocals, truncheons, percussion
Keith Richards � electric guitars, bass, piano, backing vocals
Brian Jones � electric guitar, organ
Charlie Watts � drums
Jack Nitzsche � piano

Produced: Andrew Oldham
Engineered: Glyn Johns
Recorded at: Olympic Sound Studios, London, England, Aug 3�11, Nov 8�26, 1966
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Mick Jagger: "It's a good song, even if I say so myself. (It's popular bec)ause it's got a very sing-along chorus. And people can identify with it: No one gets what they always want. It's got a very good melody. It's got very good orchestral touches that Jack Nitzsche helped with. So it's got all the ingredients." (1995)

Mick Jagger: "Now YOU also can't get what YOU want. The same goes for me. I'm saying the same thing as when I said, I can't get no satisfaction, only articulated differently. It's all a question of personal orientation. As one gets older and has read more, as one knows more, one is hit with a variety of influences, one naturally writes different texts." (c1969)

Mick Jagger: "You Can't Always Get What You Want was something I just played on the acoustic guitar - one of those bedroom songs. It proved to be quite difficult to record because Charlie couldn't play the groove and so Jimmy Miller had to play the drums. I'd also had this idea of having a choir, probably a gospel choir, on the track, but there wasn't one around at that point. Jack Nitzsche, or somebody, said that we could get the London Bach Choir and we said, That will be a laugh." (2003)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � vocals, acoustic guitar
Keith Richards � acoustic and electric guitars, backing vocals
Bill Wyman � bass guita
Al Kooper � piano, organ, French horn
Jimmy Miller � drums
Rocky Dijon � congas, maracas, tambourine
Jack Nitzsche - choral arrangements
Madeline Bell � backing vocals
Nanette Workman � backing vocals (credited as 'Nanette Newman' on the LP)
Doris Troy � backing vocals
London Bach Choir

Produced: Jimmy Miller
Engineered: Glyn Johns
Recorded at: Olympic Sound Studios, London, England, Nov 1968
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Mick Jagger: "It was Keith's great riff, and I wrote the rest. The funny thing was that it turned into this reggae song after two takes. And that take on Tattoo You was the only take that was a complete rock and roll take. And then it went to reggae completely for about 20 takes. And that's why everyone said, Oh, that's crap. We don't want to use that. And no one went back to Take 2, which was the one we used, the rock track." (1995)

Keith Richards: "Start Me Up was a reggae track to begin with, totally different. It was one of those things we cut a lot of times; one of those cuts that you can play forever and ever in the studio. Twenty minutes go by and you're still locked into those two chords... (laughs)... Sometimes you become conscious of the fact that, Oh, it's "Brown Sugar" again, so you begin to explore other rhythmic possibilities. It's basically trial and error. As I said, that one was pretty locked into a reggae rhythm for quite a few weeks. We were cutting it for Emotional Rescue (sic), but it was nowhere near coming through, and we put it aside and almost forgot about it. Then, when we went back in the can to get material for Tattoo You, we stumbled on a non-reggae version we'd cut back then and realized that was what we wanted all along." (1983)


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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead/backing vocals
Keith Richards � electric guitar, backing vocals
Ronnie Wood � electric guitar, backing vocals
Bill Wyman � bass guitar, synthesizer, electric guitar
Charlie Watts � drums
Michael Carabello � cowbell
Barry Sage � handclaps

Produced: The Glimmer Twins (Jagger/Richards)
Engineered: Chris Kimsey
Recorded at: Path� Marconi Studios, Paris, France, Jan�Mar 1978 (basic track),
..... and Electric Lady Studios, New York, New York, Apr�Jun 1981 (vocals, overdubs),
..... and The Hit Factory, New York, New York, Apr�Jun 1981 (vocals, overdubs)
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Mick Jagger: "Miss You is an emotion, it's not really about A girl. To me, the feeling of longing is what the song is - I don't like to interpret my own fucking songs - but that's what it is." (1978)

Mick Jagger: "I got that together with Billy Preston, actually. Yeah, Billy had shown me the four-on-the-floor bass-drum part, and I would just play the guitar. I remember playing that in the El Mocambo club when Keith was on trial in Toronto for whatever he was doing. We were supposed to be there making this live record... I was still writing it, actually. We were just in rehearsal." (1995)

Mick Jagger: "We didn't intentionally set out to make a DIS-CO record. To me, it's just like... that bass drum beat and my falsettos just fit nicely around the bass part. Vocally, it's more gospel, because nowadays disco records are much more repetitive... you know, I wanna dance and shake my booty repeated 89 times!" (1978)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead/backing vocals, electric guitar
Keith Richards � electric guitar, backing vocals
Ronnie Wood � electric guitar, backing vocals
Bill Wyman � bass guitar
Charlie Watts � drums
Ian McLagan � electric piano
Mel Collins � tenor saxophone
Sugar Blue � harmonica

Produced: The Glimmer Twins (Jagger/Richards)
Engineered: Chris Kimsey
Recorded at: Path� Marconi Studios, Paris, France, Oct 21�Dec 21, 1977
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Keith Richards: "Yeah (it has to do with Marlon�s birth),�cause I knew we were going to have to go to America and start work again, to get me off me ass, and not really wanting to go away. It was a very delicate moment, the kid�s only two months old, and you�re goin� away. Millions of people do it all the time but still" (1971)

Keith Richards: "I wrote this song because I was doing good at home with my old lady, and I wrote it like a love song. I just had this, Wild horses couldn�t drag me away, and I gave it to Mick, and Marianne (Faithfull) just ran off with this guy and he changed it all around but it�s still beautiful." (1969)

Mick Jagger: "(I)t was (Keith�s) melody. And he wrote the phrase wild horses, but I wrote the rest of it. I like the song. It�s an example of a pop song. Taking this clich� wild horses, which is awful, really, but making it work without sounding like a clich� when you�re doing it." (1990's)

Mick Jagger: "I remember we sat around originally doing this with Gram Parsons, and I think his version came out slightly before ours. Everyone always says it was written about Marianne but I don�t think it was; that was all well over by then. But I was definitely very inside this piece emotionally. This is very personal, evocative, and sad. It all sounds rather doomy now, but it was quite a heavy time." (1990's)
**KILL ME**

(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead vocals
Keith Richards � rhythm guitar, twelve string acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Mick Taylor � lead guitar
Bill Wyman � bass guitar
Charlie Watts � drums
Jim Dickinson � piano

Produced: Jimmy Miller
Engineered: Jimmy Johnson
Recorded at: Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama, Dec 1969�Feb 1970
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Keith Richards: "It was probably written about Linda Keith not being there (laughs). I don't know, she had pissed off somewhere. It was very mournful, very, VERY Ruby Tuesday and it was a Tuesday." (2003)

Mick Jagger: "Ruby Tuesday is good. I think that's a wonderful song. It's just a nice melody, really. And a lovely lyric. Neither of which I wrote, but I always enjoy singing it." (1995) **KILL ME**

Multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones played recorder, and the double bass was played jointly by bassist Bill Wyman (pressing the strings against the fingerboard) and Keith Richards (bowing the strings). According to Keith Richards in a 1971 Rolling Stone interview, he wrote the song in a Los Angeles hotel room in early 1966 about a groupie he knew; he has also stated that it was about Linda Keith, his girlfriend in the mid-1960s. The song's lyrics concern an apparently free-spirited woman.

Bill Wyman states in Rolling with the Stones that the lyrics were completely written by Keith Richards with help from Brian Jones on the musical composition.[page needed] However, Marianne Faithfull recalls it differently; according to her, Brian Jones presented an early version of this melody to the rest of the Rolling Stones. According to Victor Bockris, Richards came up with the basic track and the words and finished the song with Jones in the studio.

From Richards's autobiography, Life, the song was written about his girlfriend Linda Keith. Linda had taken up with Jimi Hendrix, and had got involved with drugs. She left Richards, and he tried to get her back. He eventually went to her parents and told them she was going down a dark path. Linda's father went to New York City to collect her, and by order of court she was grounded. Richards reports that Linda regarded this as a betrayal, and they did not speak again for many years. According to Richards's autobiography, Linda Keith survived, brought up a family, and now lives in New Orleans. **KILL ME**

(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards*)

Mick Jagger � lead vocals, backing vocals, tambourine
Keith Richards � double bass (bowing strings), 12 string acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Brian Jones � recorder, flute, piano
Bill Wyman � double bass (fingers on fingerboard), bass guitar
Charlie Watts - drums

Produced: Andrew Loog Oldham
Engineered: Glyn Johns
Recorded at: Olympic Sound Studios, London, England, Nov 8-Dec 3, 1966
(* with Brian Jones, unaccredited) **KILL ME**

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Keith Richards: "I thought about (the lyrics' meaning) afterwards. I was coming back from a session, my old lady, Patti, had just arrived, and I drove over to see her. And I told her how strange it felt, because it suddenly occurred to me that there was infinite room there for subliminal subjection. I realized what we'd laid down there had all the ingredients of an interesting autobiography." (1989)

Keith Richards: "I wrote this very early on in the session with Mick in Barbados. People always accuse me of intending some sort of pun here, you know "Mick's demotion", but it isn't true." (1993) **KILL ME**

(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger - lead vocals, electric guitar, shakers
Keith Richards � electric guitar, backing vocals
Ronnie Wood � electric guitar
Bill Wyman � bass
Charlie Watts � drums
Luis Jardim - percussion
Matt Clifford - Keyboards, synthesizer
Chuck Leavell -piano, organ
The Kick Horns - brass
Sarah Dash - backing vocals
Lisa Fischer - backing vocals
Bernard Fowler - backing vocals

Produced: Chris Kimsey, The Glimmer Twins (Jagger/Richards)
Engineered: Christopher Marc Potter
Recorded at: Air Studios, Montserrat, Virgin Islands
..... and Olympic Studios, London, England, Mar-Jun, 1989
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This tells two stories, a young man shot by police in a case of mistaken identity, and a 10-year girl who dies in an alley of a drug overdose. Neither is based on a true story, but is a commentary on urban America. (Songfacts)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead/backing vocals
Keith Richards � electric guitar, bass, backing vocals
Mick Taylor � electric guitar, backing vocals
Charlie Watts � drums
Billy Preston � clavinet, piano
Bobby Keys � tenor saxophone
Jim Horn � alto saxophone, flute
Chuck Findley � trumpet
Jim Price � horn arrangement

Produced: Jimmy Miller
Engineered: Andy Johns, Baker Bigsby
Recorded at: Dynamic Sound Studios, Kingston, Jamaica;
..... and Village Recorders, Los Angeles, USA;
..... and Island Recording Studios, London, England; Nov-Dec 1972, May-Jun, 1973
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Keith Richards: "Mick wrote it. I wrote the music, he did the words. Get a single together... What's amazing about that one for me is the sitar. Also, the fact that we cut it as a comedy track. Bill was playing an organ, doing a takeoff of our first manager (Eric Easton) who started his career in show business as an organist in a cinema pit. We'd been doing it with funky rhythms and it hadn't worked and he started playing it like this and everybody got behind it. It's a two-beat, very strange. Brian playing the sitar makes it a whole other thing." (1971) **KILL ME**

The song's lyrics are, for the most part, meant to describe bleakness and depression through the use of colour-based metaphors. Initially, "Paint It Black" was written as a standard pop arrangement, humorously compared by Mick Jagger to "Songs for Jewish weddings". The song describes the extreme grief suffered by one stunned by the sudden and unexpected loss of wife, lover or partner. It is often claimed that Jagger took inspiration from novelist James Joyce's 1922 book, Ulysses, taking the excerpt, "I have to turn my head until my darkness goes", referring to the novel's theme of a worldwide view of desperation and desolation. The song itself came to fruition when band leader Brian Jones took an interest in Moroccan music. It was their first song to feature a sitar instrumental. (Wikipedia) **KILL ME**

(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead vocals
Keith Richards � guitars, backing vocals
Brian Jones � sitar
Bill Wyman � bass
Charlie Watts � drums

Produced: Andrew Loog Oldham
Engineered: Dave Hassinger
Recorded at: RCA Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, Mar 8, 1966
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Mick Jagger: "This is one of those songs like Start Me Up, where the minute you hear the opening notes, you head for the dance floor. It's real '70s, in the best possible way." (1989)

Keith Richards: "(I)t's totally Mick's song." (2002)

Keith Richards: "This was like going back to the way we worked in the early days, before Exile, when we were living round the corner from each other in London. Mick and I hadn't got together in four years since Dirty Work, but as soon as we met up in Barbados for a fortnight, with a couple guitars and pianos, everything was fine." (1993:Jump Back liner notes) **KILL ME**

(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead/backing vocals, electric guitars
Keith Richards � electric guitar, backing vocals
Ronnie Wood � electric guitar
Bill Wyman � bass
Charlie Watts � drums
Matt Clifford - keyboards
Chuck Leavell - keyboards
Bernard Fowler - backing vocals
Lisa Fischer - backing vocals
Sarah Dash - backing vocals

Produced: Chris Kimsey, The Glimmer Twins (Jagger/Richards)
Engineered: Christopher Marc Potter
Recorded at: Air Studios, Montserrat, Virgin Islands
..... and Olympic Studios, London, England, Mar-Jun, 1989
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Keith Richards: "One sublime example of a song winging in from the ether is "Happy." We did that in an afternoon, in only four hours, cut and done. At noon it had never existed. At four o'clock it was on tape. It was no Rolling Stones record. It's got the name on it, but it was actually Jimmy Miller on drums, Bobby Keys on baritone and that was basically it. And then I overdubbed bass and guitar. We were just waiting for everybody to turn up for the real sessions for the rest of the night and we thought, we're here; let's see if we can come up with something. I'd written it that day. We got something going, we were rocking, everything was set up and so we said, well, let's start to work it down and then we'll probably hit it with the guys later. I decided to go on the five-string with the slide and suddenly there it was. Just like that. By the time they got there, we had it. Once you have something, you just let it fly. Well, I never kept a dollar past sunsetAlways burned a hole in my pantsNever made a school mama happyNever blew the second chance, oh noI need a love to keep me happy.

It just came, tripping off the tongue, then and there. When you're writing this shit, you've got to put your face in front of the microphone, spit it out. Something will come. I wrote the verses of "Happy," but I don't know where they came from. "Never got a lift out of Learjet / When I can fly way back home." It was just alliteration, trying to set up a story. There has to be some thin plot line, although in a lot of my songs you'd be very hard-pressed to find it. But here, you're broke and it's evening. And you want to go out, but you ain't got shit. I'm busted before I start. I need a love to keep me happy, because if it's real love it will be free! Don't have to pay for it. I need a love to keep me happy because I've spent the fucking money and I have none left, and it's nighttime and I'm looking to have a good time, but I ain't got shit. So I need love to keep me happy. Baby. Baby, won't you keep me happy." (2010:Life)

Keith Richards: "That happened in one grand bash in France for Exile. I had the riff. The rest of the Stones were late for one reason or another. It was only Bobby Keys there and Jimmy Miller, who was producing. I said, I've got this idea; let's put it down for when the guys arrive. I put down some guitar and vocal, Bobby was on baritone sax and Jimmy was on drums. We listened to it, and I said, I can put another guitar there and a bass. By the time the Stones arrived, we'd cut it. I love it when they drip off the end of the fingers. And I was pretty happy about it, which is why it ended up being called Happy." (2002)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Keith Richards: lead vocals, guitar, bass
Mick Jagger: backing vocals
Mick Taylor : slide guitar
Jimmy Miller: drums
Bobby Keys: saxophone, maracas
Jim Price: trumpet, trombone
Nicky Hopkins: electric piano
Paul Buckmaster: strings

Produced: Jimmy Miller
Engineered: Glyn Johns, Andy Johns, Joe Zagarino
Recorded at: Villa Nellc�te, France, 1971
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Mick Jagger: "I think that was taken from an old idea of Baudelaire's, I think, but I could be wrong. Sometimes when I look at my Baudelaire books, I can't see it in there. But it was an idea I got from French writing*. And I just took a couple of lines and expanded on it. I wrote it as sort of like a Bob Dylan song. And you can see it in this movie Godard shot called Sympathy for the Devil, which is very fortuitous, because Godard wanted to do a film of us in the studio. I mean, it would never happen now, to get someone as interesting as Godard. And stuffy. We just happened to be recording that song. We could have been recording My Obsession. But it was Sympathy for the Devil, and it became the track that we used." (The book was later tracked down to be a novel 'The Master and Margarita' by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov.) (1995)

Mick Jagger: "(I wrote that song alone). I mean, Keith suggested that we do it in another rhythm, so that's how bands help you... I knew it was something good, 'cause I would just keep banging away at it until the fucking band recorded it... But I knew it was a good song. You just have this feeling. It had its poetic beginning, and then it had historic references and then philosophical jottings and so on. It's all very well to write that in verse, but to make it into a pop song is something different. Especially in England - you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious." (1995) **KILL ME**

"Sympathy for the Devil" is credited to Jagger and Richards, though the song was largely a Jagger composition. The working title of the song was "The Devil Is My Name", having earlier been called "Fallen Angels", and it is sung by Jagger as a first-person narrative from the point of view of the Devil, recounting his control over the events of human existence.

In the 2012 documentary Crossfire Hurricane, Jagger stated that his influence for the song came from Baudelaire and from the Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita (which had just appeared in English translation in 1967). The book was given to him by Marianne Faithfull.

Backed by an intensifying rock arrangement, the narrator, with narcissistic relish, recounts his exploits over the course of human history and warns the listener: "If you meet me, have some courtesy, have some sympathy, and some taste; use all your well-learned politesse, or I'll lay your soul to waste." Further more, Jagger stated in the Rolling Stone interview: "it's a very long historical figure � the figures of evil and figures of good � so it is a tremendously long trail he's made as personified in this piece."

The lyrics focus on atrocities in the history of mankind from Satan's point of view including the trial and death of Jesus Christ ("Made damn sure that Pilate washed his hands to seal his fate"), European wars of religion ("I watched with glee while your kings and queens fought for ten decades for the gods they made"), the violence of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the 1918 shooting of the Romanov family ("I stuck around St. Petersburg when I saw it was a time for a change/Killed the Tsar and his ministers/Anastasia screamed in vain"), and World War II ("I rode a tank, held a general's rank when the blitzkrieg raged, and the bodies stank"). The song was originally written with the line "I shouted out 'Who killed Kennedy?'" After Robert F. Kennedy's death on 6 June 1968, the line was changed to "I shouted out 'Who killed the Kennedys?'" **KILL ME**

(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead vocals
Keith Richards � guitar solo, bass guitar, backing vocals
Brian Jones � backing vocals
Bill Wyman � maracas, backing vocals
Charlie Watts � drums, backing vocals, cowbell
Nicky Hopkins � piano, backing vocals
Rocky Dijon � congas
Anita Pallenberg � backing vocals
Marianne Faithfull � backing vocals

Produced: Jimmy Miller
Engineered: Glyn Johns
Recorded at: Olympic Sound Studios, London. England, Jun, 4�5, 8�10, 1968
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Said Mick Jagger to Beats 1, "It wasn't written for now but it was written about being in a place which was full of life, and then now there's all bereft of life, so to speak". Like songs from other artists, it seemed to fit the tragedy of 2020 and Mick only had to rewrite a few lyrics to make it fit. It was then rush released way ahead of the album it is to appear on. (LB)
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Mick Jagger: "This one dates from the Goats Head Soup sessions. We all liked it at the time but we didn't have any lyrics, so there we were. As well as the vocal, we stuck on that amazing sax solo at the end by Sonny Rollins. The lyric I added is very gentle and loving, about friendships in the band. At least I think that's what it was about. The influence of the video comes in here because when we scripted it we had me and Keith sitting round waiting for each other. But I can't actually remember now if that was the original idea of the song." (1993)

Mick Jagger: "Just let me be cynical for a moment. First of all, it's really NOT about waiting on a woman friend. It's just about a FRIEND; it doesn't matter if it's a man or a woman. I can see people saying, Oh, we're all much older now, Mick's writing this much more compassionate stuff, must be about a real person. But that's only in their perception of it." (1983) **KILL ME**

Recording of "Waiting on a Friend" (as 'Waiting for a Friend') began in late 1972 through early 1973 in Kingston, Jamaica, during the Goats Head Soup sessions when the band still had Mick Taylor as a member. His guitar piece made it to the overdubbing sessions in April 1981 when the song was selected by Tattoo You producer Chris Kimsey as one the band could re-work for the album.

The lyrics see a more mature side of singer Jagger represented. He speaks of setting aside women and vices in favor of making some sense of his life and finding the virtues inherent in true friendship. ..... The song is noted for its dreamy qualities brought on by the soft guitars, smooth rhythm, and Jagger's lilting refrain of "doo-doo-doo"'s. (Wikipedia) **KILL ME**

(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead/backing vocals
Keith Richards � rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Mick Taylor � lead guitar
Bill Wyman � bass
Charlie Watts � drums
Ronnie Wood- backing vocals
Nicky Hopkins � piano
Sonny Rollins � tenor saxophone
Michael Carabello � g�iro, claves, cabasa and congas

Produced: The Glimmer Twins (Jagger/Richards)
Engineered: Andy Johns, Chris Kimsey
Recorded at: Dynamic Sound Studios, Kingston, Jamaica;
.... and Path� Marconi Studios, Paris, France;
.... and Mobile Unit, warehouse, Paris, France;
.... and Atlantic Studios, Electric Ladyland Studios,
.... and Hit Factory, New York, New York, USA
.... and Power Station, New York, New York, USA
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Keith Richards: "I started that one. To me, it's intimately related to Wicked As It Seems, which I did last year. All of our songs are like... this one's the cousin of that one. They're all offshoots of themes and motifs. ... Hybrids, ones (that Mick and I wrote) together (include): Love Is Strong, Got Me Rocking, and Sparks Will Fly." (1994)

Mick Jagger: "We ran through it a bunch of times and I was playing harmonica, and I started singing through the harmonica mike, so you get this strange sort of sound. And then I started singing down an octave, so you get this kind of breathy, sexy tone... It was good to put harmonica on a track like this. You always think of playing it on a 12-bar blues, and it's kind of fun to put it on one which isn't. It's good to work with another sequence." (1994)


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Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Love Is Strong" is a brooding number about an encounter between the singer and an unnamed person which leads the singer to a "love/lust at first sight" immediate attraction and longing for the couple to unite despite the obstacles.

The song was written in Ireland by Richards and originally had the name "Love is Strange". Popular bootlegs of the sessions abound, as Ron Wood, Richards, Ivan Neville and producer Don Was worked the song while Jagger was supporting his record Wandering Spirit. Later takes have Richards changing the title to "Love is Strong"; although the final release was significantly altered by Jagger's added lyrics and use of a harmonica, a trademark instrument for him rarely utilized in the Stones' middle period work. (Wikipedia)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger - lead vocals, harmonica, maracas
Keith Richards - electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals
Ron Wood - electric/acoustic guitars, backing vocals
Charlie Watts - drums
Darryl Jones - bass
Bernard Fowler - background vocals
Ivan Neville - background vocals

Produced: Don Was, The Glimmer Twins (Jagger/Richards)
Engineered: Don Smith
Recorded at: Windmill Lane Recording, Dublin, Ireland;
.... and A&M Recording Studios, Los Angeles, USA. 1993
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Mick Jagger: "This dates from the period when I had a young child, my daughter Jade, around a lot, calling me daddy and all that. It's another of our heartmelting ballads, a bit long and waffly at the end maybe, but I like it." (1993)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead vocals, electric piano
Keith Richards � electric guitar
Bill Wyman � bass
Charlie Watts � drums
Wayne Perkins � electric guitar
Nicky Hopkins � piano

Produced: The Glimmer Twins (Jagger/Richards)
Engineered: Keith Harwood
Recorded at: Musicland Studios, Munich, West Germany, Dec 1974
..... and Mountain Recording Studios, Montreux, Switzerland, Oct-Dec, 1975
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Mick Jagger: "We had just done 5 weeks' hectic work in the States and I said, 'Dunno about you blokes, but I feel about ready for my 19th nervous breakdown'. We seized on it at once as likely song title. Then Keith and I worked on the number at intervals during the rest of the tour." (1966:Rolling Stones Monthly)

Mick Jagger: "Things that are happening around me - everyday life as I see it. People say I'm always singing about pills and breakdowns, therefore I must be an addict � this is ridiculous. Some people are so narrow-minded they won't admit to themselves that this really does happen to other people besides pop stars."

Mick Jagger: "That's a very Los Angeles period, I remember being in the West Coast a lot then. 19th Nervous Breakdown is a bit of a joke song, really. I mean, the idea that anyone could be offended by it really is funny. But I remember some people were. It's very hard to put yourself back in that period now - popular songs didn't really address anything very much. Bob Dylan was addressing it, but he wasn't thought of as a mainstream Pop act. And anyway, no one knew what he was talking about. Basically his songs were too dense for most people. And so to write about anything other than the normal run-of-the-mill love clich�s was considered very outre and it was never touched. Anything outside that would shock people. So songs like "19th Nervous Breakdown" were slightly jarring to people. But I guess they soon got used to it. A couple years after that, things took a sort of turn and then saw an even more dark direction. But those were very innocent days, I think." **KILL ME**

The song was written during the group's 1965 tour of the United States and recorded at the conclusion of their fourth North American tour during the Aftermath album sessions, between 3 and 8 December 1965 at RCA Recording Studios in Hollywood, California. ..... Jagger came up with the title first and then wrote the lyrics around it. (Wikipedia)

The lyrics are an attack on spoiled brats who are given everything and are still unhappy. Jagger took pains to explain that the song was not autobiographical. (Songfacts) **KILL ME**

(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead vocals
Keith Richards � electric guitar, background vocals
Brian Jones � electric guitar
Bill Wyman � bass
Charlie Watts � drums

Produced: Andrew Loog Oldham
Engineered: Dave Hassinger
Recorded at: RCA Studios, Los Angeles, USA, Dec 3-8, 1965
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Mick Jagger: "It's not about the (Persian Gulf) war. It's about how it started." (1991)

Keith Richards: "This is not about the war. It's about how you build up some shaky dictator (by selling him arms). You can't build them up, 'cause then you've got to slam them down." (1991)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead vocals, electric guitars
Keith Richards � electric guitars, backing voclas
Ronnie Wood � electric guitars
Bill Wyman � bass
Charlie Watts � drums
Bernard Fowler - backing vocals

Produced: Chris Kimsey, The Glimmer Twins (Jagger/Richards)
Engineered: Mark Stent
Recorded at: Hit Factory Studios, London, England, Jan 1991
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The first Rolling Stones single to feature a Ron Wood co-writing credit with Jagger and Richards. Credited to lead singer Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards and guitarist Ron Wood, "One Hit (To the Body)" was largely the work of Richards and Wood. Both guitarists contributed heavily to Dirty Work overall, with Wood receiving credit alongside Jagger and Richards on another three songs. A sign of Wood's heavy contribution is the song's distinctive opening of an acoustic piece. (Wikipedia)
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Dave Jerden: "Woody went out and played acoustic on the basic track. He was trying to come up with an electric guitar part, and it wasn't grooving enough, so he went out and started banging on the acoustic. Woody's really great at coming up with ideas like that."
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood)

Mick Jagger � lead vocals
Keith Richards � electric/acoustic guitars, backing vocals
Ronnie Wood � electric/acoustic/pedal steel guitar, backing vocals
Bill Wyman � bass
Charlie Watts � drums
Jimmy Page � electric guitar
John Regan � bass
Chuck Leavell � keyboards
Bobby Womack - backing vocals
Don Covay - backing vocals
Patti Scialfa - backing vocals
Beverly D'Angelo - backing vocals

Produced: Steve Lillywhite, The Glimmer Twins (Jagger/Richards)
Engineered: Dave Jerden
Recorded at: Path� Marconi Studios, Paris, France;
..... and RPM Studios, New York, New York, USA
..... and Right Track Studios, New York, New York, USA, 1985
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Mick Jagger: "I wrote the lyrics, and Keith wrote the melody... It's a very melancholy song for a 21-year-old to write: The evening of the day, watching children play... It's very dumb and naive, but it's got a very sad sort of thing about it, almost like an older person might write. You know, it's like a metaphor for being old: You're watching children playing and realizing you're not a child. It's a relatively mature song considering the rest of the output at the time. And we didn't think of doing it, because the Rolling Stones were a butch blues group. But Marianne Faithfull's version was already a big, proven hit song... It was one of the first things I ever wrote." (1995)

Mick Jagger: "I sang about children then. I wrote that song when I was 20. It was reflective - though they weren't my children at that point (laughs)." (2001)

Mick Jagger: "We never dreamed of doing As Tears Go By ourselves when we wrote it. We just gave it straight to Marianne Faithfull. We wrote a lot of songs for other people, most of which were very unsuccessful." (1968) **KILL ME**

(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Andrew Loog Oldham)

Mick Jagger � lead vocals
Keith Richards � 12-string acoustic guitar
Mike Leander � string arrangement

Produced: Andrew Loog Oldham
Engineered: Glyn Johns
Recorded at: IBC Studios, London, England, Oct 1965
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Keith Richards: "Yeah, (the song is about England): ...where I come from, nobody ever works, nothing ever gets done. They're going through their little traumas over there. It serves them right for kickin' us out." (1981)

Mick Jagger: "It's usually me who writes those (boogie/rock & roll) tunes. I just think they're fun to do once, but they're pretty much not much fun for people to listen to all the time I suppose because many bands do that sort of thing. I don't know. Whatever comes up comes up. They sound nice. I mean they're really easy to finish and you say Oh, that's nice. Those tunes tend to be the first ones done." (1981)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead/backing vocals
Keith Richards � electric guitar, backing vocals
Ronnie Wood � electric guitar, bass, backing vocals
Charlie Watts � drums
Ian Stewart � piano

Produced: The Glimmer Twins (Jagger/Richards)
Engineered: Chris Kimsey
Recorded at: Path� Marconi Studios, Paris, France;
..... and Mobile Unit, warehouse, Paris, France, 1978�1979 (basic track);
..... and Atlantic Studios, New York, New York, USA;
..... and Electric Ladyland Studios, New York, New York, USA;
..... and Hit Factory, New York, New York, USA;
..... and Power Station, New York, New York, USA, 1981 (overdubs);
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Mick Jagger: "Ah, I see, I'm not integrating (the nice and bad women in my songs) properly. Maybe not. Maybe Beast of Burden is integrated slightly: I don't want a beast of burden, I don't want the kind of woman who's going to drudge for me. The song says: I don't need a beast of burden, and I'm not going to be your beast of burden, either. Any woman can see that that's like my saying that I don't want a woman to be on her knees for me. I mean, I get accused of being very anitigirl, right? But people really don't listen, they get it all wrong: they hear Beast of Burden and say Argggh!" (1978)

Keith Richards: "When I returned to the fold after closing down the laboratory, I came back into the studio with Mick... to say, Thanks, man, for shouldering the burden - that's why I wrote Beast of Burden for him, I realise in retrospect - and the weird thing was that he didn't want to share the burden any more." (2003)

Mick Jagger: "That's more like Keith's song. I wrote lyrics." (1995)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead/backing vocals
Keith Richards � electric/acoustic guitars, backing vocals
Bill Wyman � bass
Ronnie Wood � electric/acoustic guitar
Charlie Watts � drums

Produced: The Glimmer Twins (Jagger/Richards)
Engineered: Chris Kimsey
Recorded at: Path� Marconi Studios, Paris, France, Oct 10�Dec 21, 1977
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Mick Jagger: "(T)here's... stuff like Streets of Love which is perhaps more serious and it doesn't have any levity. It's kind of quite a dark piece." (2005)

Keith Richards: "It's a Mick tour de force, in a way. But we all really enjoy playing it. When we first knocked it out on acoustic, we felt, Oh, that's nice, but it sounded kind of standard. So then Mick and I were saying, It's the dynamics that count. You gotta take it up and down." (2005)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger - lead vocals, electric rhythm guitar
Keith Richards - acoustic guitar
Ron Wood - electric lead guitar
Charlie Watts - drums
Darryl Jones - bass
Chuck Leavell - pianos, organs
Matt Clifford - pianos, organs, strings, programming

Produced: Don Was, The Glimmer Twins (Jagger/Richards)
Engineered: Krish Sharma
Recorded at: La Fourchette, Pos� sur Cisse, France, Nov-Dec 2004
..... and Ocean Way Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA, Mar-Apr, Jun 2005
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Mick Jagger: "I'm not saying I nicked it, but this song was heavily influenced by William Burroughs' Cities Of The Red Night, a free-wheeling novel about political and sexual repression. It combines a number of different references to what was going down in Argentina and Chile. I think it's really good but it wasn't particularly successful at the time because songs that deal overtly with politics never are that successful, for some reason." (1993)

Mick Jagger: "When it was written it was always like - it's supposed to be about the repression of violence in our minds, you know, 'cause we have so much of it. It's also about repressive political systems - pretty serious stuff for Top 20 material. It's pretty risky to put out songs like that 'cause nobody's really interested in that kind of thing. I mean, everyone wants to hear about party all night long or just mumbo jumbo. Nobody's interested in anything real... So that was a bit of a departure for us 'cause we hadn't done anything like that since Street Fighting Man." (1984)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead vocals
Keith Richards � electric guitar
Ronnie Wood � electric guitar
Bill Wyman � bass
Charlie Watts � drums
Robbie Shakespeare � bass
Chuck Leavell � keyboards
Sly Dunbar � percussion
Moustapha Cisse � percussion
Brahms Coundoul � percussion
Martin Ditcham � percussion

Produced: Chris Kimsey, The Glimmer Twins (Jagger/Richards)
Engineered: Chris Kimsey
Recorded at: Path� Marconi Studios, Paris, France;
.... and Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas, 1982-1983
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Mick Jagger: "It's about drug dependence, but in a sort of like spoofy way. As a songwriter, I didn't really think about addressing things like that. It was just every day stuff that you I'd observe and write about. It's what writing is for really. There is a sort of naivety, but there's also a lot of humor in those songs. They're a lot based on humor. It was almost like a different band, a different world, a different view when we wrote them."

Mick Jagger: ""I get inspiration from things that are happening around me - everyday life as I see it. People say I'm always singing about pills and breakdowns, therefore I must be an addict - this is ridiculous. Some people are so narrow-minded they won't admit to themselves that this really does happen to other people beside pop stars."" (1966)

Keith Richards: ""The strange guitar sound is a 12-string with a slide on it. It's played slightly Oriental-ish. The track just needed something to make it twang. Otherwise, the song was quite vaudeville in a way. I wanted to add some nice bite to it. And it was just one of those things where someone walked in and, Look, it's an electric 12-string. It was some gashed-up job. No name on it. God knows where it came from. Or where it went. But I put it together with a bottleneck. Then we had a riff that tied the whole thing together. And I think we overdubbed onto that. Because I played an acoustic guitar as well."" (2002)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead vocals, percussion
Keith Richards � acoustic guitar, electric 12-string slide guitar, backing vocals
Brian Jones � acoustic guitar
Bill Wyman � bass
Charlie Watts � drums
Jack Nitzsche � Nitzsche-Phone

Produced: Andrew Loog Oldham
Engineered: Dave Hassinger
Recorded at: RCA Studios, Los Angeles, USA, Dec 3�8, 1965
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Charlie Watts: "She's So Cold, quite honestly, was a track that Keith had going that I didn't know what was going on it. And I'm the drummer. And Mick wrote lyrics and I never heard a thing until after. Quite honestly. ..... And I had a great time making the record with Keith. But was he was going to sing or what he wanted on it or what Mick was going to write, it was something I heard months later, in fact." (1980 )

Mick Jagger: "Actually I wrote it in an hour ..... Well it was a bit like Shattered, in that way, you remember that one? ..... It was a bit like Shattered 'cause it was always there..." (1980)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead vocals, electric guitar
Keith Richards � electric guitar
Ronnie Wood � electric guitar, pedal steel
Bill Wyman � bass
Charlie Watts � drums
Ian Stewart � electric/acoustic piano, percussion
Nicky Hopkins - keyboards
Sugar Blue � harmonica
Bobby Keys � saxophone
Michael Shrieve � percussion

Produced: The Glimmer Twins (Jagger/Richards)
Engineered: Chris Kimsey
Recorded at: Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas
..... and Electric Lady Studios, New York City, USA, 1979, 1980
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Mick Jagger: "It's melodic, but then it's different. It has a slightly different groove to it. And it's got a lot of little sounds, ear-catching little soundscapes on it, you know. We did it to keep you interested. It's kind of R&B-influenced sort of soul music and it's kind of lightish, it's not heavy, but it's definitely R&B and it's very, it's really driven by the vocal chorus, really." (1997)

Keith Richards: "My daughter Angela and her friend were at Redlands and I was playing the record and they start singing this totally different song over it. They were hearing k.d. lang's 'Constant Craving.' It was Angela and her friend that copped it." (Life autobiography)
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Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the song also carries writing credits for k.d. lang and Ben Mink. The song is known for its chorus, which sounds strikingly similar to lang's 1992 hit song "Constant Craving". Jagger and Richards claimed to have never heard the song before, only having discovered the similarity prior to the song's release. The two gave Lang credit, along with her co-writer Mink, to avoid any lawsuits. Richards ensured to take the payments after Jagger's share as he was the one who unconsciously incorporated the melody. Afterwards, Lang said she was "completely honored and flattered" by receiving the songwriting credit.

"Anybody Seen My Baby?" is a typical song from the Bridges to Babylon-era Stones. It features wide-ranging inspirations, including sampling of hip-hop artist Biz Markie, making it one of the few songs by The Rolling Stones to include sampling. ..... Coincidentally, "Has Anybody Seen My Baby" is reported to have been the title of a song written and recorded by Brian Jones after leaving the Rolling Stones. (Wikipedia)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, k.d. lang, Ben Mink)

Mick Jagger � lead/backing vocals, electric guitar
Keith Richards � electric guitar, backing vocals
Ronnie Wood � electric guitar
Charlie Watts � drums
Jamie Muhoberac � bass
Waddy Wachtel - electric/acoustic guitar
Don Was - keyboards
Jamie Muhoberac - keyboards
Blondie Chaplin - shaker, backing vocals
Bernard Fowler - backing vocals
Biz Markie - sampled co-lead vocal

Produced: Don Was, Dust Brothers, The Glimmer Twins (Jagger/Richards)
Engineered: The Dust Brothers, Dan Bosworth
Recorded at: Ocean Way Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA, 1997
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Keith Richards: "Brian was getting into dulcimer then. Because he dug Richard Farina... We were also listening to a lot of Appalachian music then too. To me, Lady Jane is very Elizabethan. There are a few places in England where people still speak that way, Chaucer English." (1971)

Mick Jagger: "Lady Jane is a complete sort of very weird song. I don't really know what that's all about myself. All the names are historical but it was really unconscious that they should fit together from the same period." (1968)
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"Lady Jane" was written and composed by Jagger in early 1966 after reading the then controversial book Lady Chatterley's Lover, which uses the term "Lady Jane" to mean female genitalia. At the time, it was widely thought that an inspiration for the song was Jane Ormsby-Gore, daughter of David Ormsby-Gore, former British ambassador in Washington, who later married Michael Rainey, founder of the Hung on You boutique in Chelsea that was frequented by the Stones.

Its most impactful development was by Jones, no longer the principal musical force for the band, searching for methods to improve upon The Rolling Stones' musical textures. He expressed an intrigue in incorporating culturally diverse instruments into the band's music, investigating the sitar, koto, marimba, and testing electronics. In the press Jones talked about applying the Appalachian dulcimer into compositions, although he seemed uncertain of the instrument, saying "It's an old English instrument used at the beginning of the century". The dulcimer was first brought to his attention in March 1966 when Jones began listening to recordings of Richard Fari�a. The influence of these recordings would manifest itself in Aftermath, where Jones performed with the dulcimer on two tracks, "I Am Waiting" and, more distinctively, "Lady Jane". This later contributed to Jones's status as an early pioneer in world music, and effectively shifted the band from blues rock to a versatile pop group. (Wikipedia)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead vocals
Keith Richards � acoustic guitar
Brian Jones � dulcimer
Jack Nitzsche � harpsichord

Produced: Andrew Loog Oldham
Engineered: Dave Hassinger
Recorded at: RCA Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA, Mar 1966
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Mick Jagger: "That was Keith's melody and my lyrics... It's a stop-bugging-me, post-teenage-alienation song. The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the '60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress." (1995)

Keith Richards: "It's really difficult now to realize how important it was to have a hit single. If the last one didn't do as well as the one before, that meant you were out, you were sliding out. I mean, it was a state of mind. So each one had to be better and DO better, it didn't just have to be better. I mean, you could make a better record each time but if it didn't DO better as the other one or at least as good, it was a sign that you were declining. You know, it was just real pressure to come up with a red-hot song that says it all in 2 minutes 30 seconds every 8 weeks. I mean, it's got to be ready within 8 weeks and released every 12 or 14 weeks, you know. You've just finished Satisfaction - I'd been wrong about that, it's an enormous hit, and you're going, Wow, lucky me - and you're just taking a breather for a couple of days and Andrew Oldham comes along and says, Where's the next single?" (1982)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead vocals
Keith Richards � rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Brian Jones � 12-string guitar, lead guitar, electric piano
Bill Wyman � bass guitar, backing vocals
Charlie Watts � drums

Produced: Andrew Loog Oldham
Engineered: Dave Hassinger
Recorded at: RCA Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA, Sep 6�7, 1965
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Mick Jagger: "I wrote that on an electric piano in the studio, then Charlie and Woody and I cut it immediately, live. It was all done very quickly. I think the vocals could've been better. It's just one of those recording-studio things. You would NEVER really write a song like that in REAL LIFE. Comes out in the studio, 'cause it's all ad-libbed, the end part. It was never planned like that... Yeah, it's all a joke, really." (1980)

Keith Richards: "(I)n the '80s... (a) lot of the stuff, the material that Mick wanted to do, was not particularly guitar-oriented. We were trying to, like, wedge guitars into places where they're not necessary, like Emotional Rescue and Undercover. Around that time we were doing a lot of material that was not necessarily made for guitars. Mick wanted to get into that dance thing and, you know, OK, here we go." (1994)
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(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

Mick Jagger � lead vocals, electric piano
Keith Richards � electric guitar
Ronnie Wood � bass guitar
Bill Wyman � synthesizer
Charlie Watts � drums
Additional personnel
Ian Stewart � electric piano
Bobby Keys � saxophone

Produced: The Glimmer Twins (Jagger/Richards)
Engineered: Chris Kimsey
Recorded at: Oct 1�19, 1979
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