Goats Head Soup
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| Label (s) | Virgin Records | |||
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CD, LP |
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10 |
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46:56 |
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| occupation | Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Mick Taylor, Bill Wyman | |||
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Goats Head Soup is the eleventh studio album by the Rolling Stones to be released in Great Britain . Jimmy Miller was the last producer for the Stones, who made only a few recordings in the following years and died in 1994 of liver disease.
The recordings took place from November 1972 to July 1973 in Jamaica , Los Angeles and London . As always, the Rolling Stones were supported by numerous guest musicians: Ian Stewart , Bobby Keys , Billy Preston , Ray Cooper , Nicky Hopkins , Jim Horn , Reebop Kwaku Baah , Chuck Findley and Jimmy Miller .
The album contains a number of hits, including Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) with a great guitar solo by Mick Taylor , Mick Jagger's angry and haunted singing about a ten year old drug addict and the senseless violence of the New York police. Angie , one of the Rolling Stones' most commercially successful songs (number 1 in the American singles charts), is a ballad supposedly dedicated to David Bowie's partner , but Keith Richards actually wrote the song for his daughter Angela. Star Star , the final song of the album originally named Star Fucker (replaced by "Starbucker" in the text), which describes the unrestrained lifestyle of a groupie in drastic terms , was enough for a scandal in 1973. The record company Atlantic Records pushed through a name change - but BBC radio banned the piece from the program.
The intensity and aggressiveness of the previous albums were only partially achieved. The Stones were established, the anger at the establishment had subsided, and Mick Jagger in particular had succumbed to the charms of the jet set . Keith Richards had meanwhile largely lost control of his drug addiction and his creativity suffered. The introductory Dancing With Mr. D ("Tanzen mit Herr T [od]") was rated by the critics at the time as artificial and demanding of effects compared to Sympathy for the Devil , the album as a whole perceived as a bit directionless and uninspired. The good mood of the Exile-on-Main-Street- Sessions no longer wanted to set in, the relationship between the band members was tense. To make matters worse, during the studio recordings in Jamaica, Bill Wyman's then partner was raped by a burglar.
On August 17, 1973, the single Angie was released , the album itself was released on September 12, 1973 in the USA , but already on August 31, 1973 in Europe, just in time for the start of their European tour, which was on September 1, 1973 began in the Wiener Stadthalle and ended on October 19, 1973 in the Deutschlandhalle in Berlin . This concert was also the last live appearance of Mick Taylor with the Rolling Stones. Their biggest European tour to date took the Stones through 21 cities in eight countries, with over 300,000 people attending the concerts. The last European tour was already three years ago. The now available live album The Brussels Affair '73 was made during one of the last touring appearances on October 17th in Brussels.
The album reached number 1 in the British and American charts, with 4 weeks at the top of the US charts it was just as successful as Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main St. British photographer David Bailey was responsible for the cover design and recording .
In July 2020, the band announced that the album would be re-released on September 4, 2020 with a revised sound quality and bonus material (including three previously unreleased songs).
Track list
- Dancing with Mr. D - 4:53
- 100 Years Ago - 3:59
- Coming Down Again - 5:54 (lead singer: Keith Richards)
- Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) - 3.26
- Angie - 4.33
- Silver Train - 4.27
- Hide Your Love - December 4th
- Winter - 5:30
- Can You Hear the Music - 5:31
- Star Star - 4:25
Texts / translations / notes
- The Rolling Stones. Songbook. 155 songs [1963–1977] with sheet music. German by Teja Schwaner, Jörg Fauser and Carl Weissner . With 75 alternative translations by Helmut Salzinger . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1977, pp. 280-303, 785-818 and 946-949.
Web links
- Rolling Stones GOAT'S HEAD SOUP GOAT'S HEAD SOUP Rolling Stones
- Goats Head Soup on allmusic.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barry Graves / Siegfried Schmidt-Joos / Bernward Halbscheffel: Das neue Rock-Lexikon Volume 2. Rowohlt Taschenbuch, (October) 1998, ISBN 978-3-499-16352-4 , p. 788.
- ↑ Steve Appleford: The Rolling Stones, Rip This Joint. The story for each song ("The Rolling Stones - it's only rock 'n' roll"). Rockbuch-Verlag, Schlüchtern 2002, ISBN 3-927638-11-0 , p. 126 ff.
- ↑ Bill Wyman with Richard Havers: Bill Wyman's Rolling Stones Story . Dorling Kindersley (October 2002), ISBN 978-3831003914 , p. 416
- ↑ Bill Wyman with Richard Havers: Bill Wyman's Rolling Stones Story . Dorling Kindersley (October 2002), ISBN 978-3831003914 , pp. 414/415
- ↑ https://www.swr.de/swr1/bw/musik/artikel-rolling-stones-criss-cross-100.html