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Sticky Fingers
Recording and release
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, was 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 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 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 ownershipith The Rolling Stonesf “Brown Sugar” and “Wild Horses”.
In 1994 Sticky Fingers was remastered and reissued by Virgin Records, and again in 2009 by Universal Music.
Cover
The artwork for Sticky Fingershich, on the original vinyl release, featured a working zipper that opened to reveal a man in cotton briefs (rubber stamped “THIS PHOTOGRAPH MAY NOT BE-ETC.”)as conceived by American pop artist Andy Warhol, photographed by Billy Name and designed by John Pasche. The cover, a photo of Joe Dallesandro’s crotch clad in tight blue jeans, was assumed by many fans to be an image of Mick Jagger, however the people actually involved at the time of the photo shoot claim that Warhol had several different men photographed (Jagger was not among them) and never revealed which shots he used. Among the candidates, Jed Johnson, Warhol’s lover at the time, denied it was his likeness (he died in 1996 aboard TWA Flight 800) although his twin brother Jay is a possibility. Those closest to the shoot — and subsequent design — name Factory artist and designer Corey Tippin as the likeliest candidate. After retailers complained that the zipper was causing damage to the vinyl (from stacked shipments of the record), the zipper was “unzipped” slightly to the middle of the record, where damage would be minimized. The album features the first usage of the “Tongue and Lip Design” designed by John Pasche.
In 2003, the TV network VH1 named Sticky Fingers the “No. 1 Greatest Album Cover” of all time.
Alternate covers
In Spain, the original cover was replaced with a “Can of fingers” cover, and “Sister Morphine” was replaced by the Chuck Berry composition “Let it Rock”.
In 1992, the LP release of the album in Russia featured a similar treatment as the original cover, but with a colorized photo and a hammer and sickle inscribed in a star as the belt buckle (which is actually a Soviet Army uniform belt buckle).
Track listing
All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.
Side one
“Brown Sugar” 3:48
“Sway” 3:50
“Wild Horses” 5:42
“Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” 7:14
“You Gotta Move” (Fred McDowell, Rev. Gary Davis) 2:32
Side two
“Bitch” 3:38
“I Got the Blues” 3:54
“Sister Morphine” (Jagger, Richards, Marianne Faithfull) 5:31
“Dead Flowers” 4:03
“Moonlight Mile” 5:56
Personnel
The Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, percussion
Keith Richards electric guitar, 6 & 12 string acoustic guitar and backing vocals
Mick Taylor electric, acoustic, and slide guitar
Charlie Watts drums
Bill Wyman bass guitar, electric piano
Additional musicians
Paul Buckmaster string arrangement
Ry Cooder slide guitar
Jim Dickinson piano
Rocky Dijon congas
Nicky Hopkins piano
Bobby Keys saxophone
Ronnie Lane vocals
Jimmy Miller percussion
Billy Nicholls vocals
Jack Nitzsche piano
Billy Preston organ
Jim Price trumpet, piano
Ian Stewart piano
Pete Townshend vocals
Sales chart performance
Album
Year
Chart
Position
1971
UK Top 50 Albums
1[citation needed]
1971
Billboard Pop Albums
1[citation needed]
1971
Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart
1[citation needed]
Singles
Year
Single
Chart
Position
1971
“Brown Sugar” / “Bitch” & “Let It Rock”
UK Top 50 Singles
2[citation needed]
1971
“Brown Sugar”
The Billboard Hot 100
1[citation needed]
1971
“Wild Horses”
The Billboard Hot 100
28[citation needed]
References
^ (7/9/94, p.43)
^ http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5938174/the_rs_500_greatest_albums_of_all_time
^ Greenfield, Robert (2006). Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones, pp. 95-96. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0306814331.
^ Sanchez, Tony (1996). Up and Down with the Rolling Stones, p. 195. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0306807114.
Preceded by
4 Way Street by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Billboard 200 number-one album
22 May 18 June 1971
Succeeded by
Tapestry by Carole King
Preceded by
Cocker Happy by Joe Cocker
Australian Kent Music Report number-one album
26 July 8 August 1971
Succeeded by
Daddy Who? … Daddy Cool by Daddy Cool
v d e
The Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger Keith Richards Ronnie Wood Charlie Watts
Brian Jones Ian Stewart Dick Taylor Mick Taylor Bill Wyman
UK studio albums
19641967
The Rolling Stones (1964) The Rolling Stones No. 2 (1965) Out of Our Heads (1965) Aftermath (1966) Between the Buttons (1967)
U.S. studio albums
19641967
The Rolling Stones (England’s Newest Hitmakers) (1964) 12 X 5 (1964) The Rolling Stones, Now! (1965) Out of Our Heads (1965) December’s Children (And Everybody’s) (1965) Aftermath (1966) Between the Buttons (1967)
Studio albums
1967resent
Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967) Beggars Banquet (1968) Let It Bleed (1969) Sticky Fingers (1971) Exile on Main St. (1972) Goats Head Soup (1973) It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (1974) Black and Blue (1976) Some Girls (1978) Emotional Rescue (1980) Tattoo You (1981) Undercover (1983) Dirty Work (1986) Steel Wheels (1989) Voodoo Lounge (1994) Bridges to Babylon (1997) A Bigger Bang (2005)
UK EPs
The Rolling Stones (1964) Five by Five (1964) Got Live If You Want It! (1965)
Live albums
Got Live If You Want It! (U.S. only) (1966) Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert (1970) Love You Live (1977) “Still Life” (American Concert 1981) (1982) Flashpoint (1991) Stripped (1995) No Security (1998) Live Licks (2004) Shine a Light (2008)
Compilations
Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (U.S.) (1966) Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (UK) (1966) Flowers (U.S.) (1967) Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) (UK) (1969) Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) (U.S.) (1969) Made in the Shade (1975) Time Waits for No One: Anthology 19711977 (1979) Sucking in the Seventies (1981) Rewind (19711984) (1984) Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones (1993) Forty Licks (2002) Rarities 19712003 (2005)
Post-contract
ABKCO albums
Hot Rocks 19641971 (1971) More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) (1972) Metamorphosis (1975) Singles Collection: The London Years (1989) The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1996) Singles 19631965 (2004) Singles 19651967 (2004) Singles 19681971 (2005) Rolled Gold: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones (2007)
Post-contract
Decca albums
Stone Age (1971) Gimme Shelter (1971) Milestones (1972) Rock ‘n’ Rolling Stones (1972) No Stone Unturned (1973) Rolled Gold: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones (1975) Solid Rock (1980) Slow Rollers (1981)
Miscellaneous
albums
Jamming with Edward! (1972)
Box set
The Rolling Stones Box Set (2009)
Tours
European tour 1967 American Tour 1969 European Tour 1970 UK Tour 1971 American Tour 1972 Pacific Tour 1973 European Tour 1973 Tour of the Americas ‘75 Tour of Europe ‘76 U.S. Tour 1978 American Tour 1981 European Tour 1982 Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour Voodoo Lounge Tour Bridges to Babylon Tour No Security Tour Licks Tour A Bigger Bang Tour
Collaborators
Blondie Chaplin Lisa Fischer Bernard Fowler Nicky Hopkins Darryl Jones Bobby Keys Chuck Leavell Ian McLagan Billy Preston Jim Price
Producers
Andrew Loog Oldham Jimmy Miller The Glimmer Twins Steve Lillywhite Chris Kimsey Don Was
Management
Andrew Loog Oldham Allen Klein
Related articles
Discography Jagger/Richards Nanker Phelge Rolling Stones Records Altamont Free Concert Rolling Stones Mobile Studio The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
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