Let it bleed

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Let it bleed
The Rolling Stones studio album

Publication
(s)

  • US: November 29, 1969
  • GB: December 5th, 1969
Label (s) Decca (GB) / London (US)

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Rock , blues , country

Title (number)

9

running time

42 min 13 s

occupation


  • Byron Berline: Fiddle
  • Rocky Dijon: percussion
  • London Bach Choir

production

Jimmy Miller

Studio (s)

16.-17. Nov. 1968 and
Feb. 10th – 2. Nov. 1969,
Olympic Studios , London

chronology
Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)
(1969) 		Let it bleed Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!
(1970)

Let It Bleed (English for "Let it bleed") is the eighth in the UK published studio album of the Rolling Stones and the same song on the album. In the US , the album was released on November 29, 1969 and in Great Britain on December 5, 1969 as the successor to Beggars Banquet . Jimmy Miller was again responsible as producer . It's the last album on which Brian Jones , founding member of the Rolling Stones, was involved.

History of origin

The recordings took place from February to October 1969 in the Olympic Studios in London , only the song You Can't Always Get What You Want had already been recorded on November 16 and 17, 1968, before the publication of Beggars Banquet . Most of the guitar parts were recorded by Keith Richards; the drug-damaged Brian Jones was only involved in two songs, he played the autoharp on You Got the Silver and the conga , an African hand drum, on Midnight Rambler . His successor Mick Taylor was only heard on Country Honk and Live With Me . You Got the Silver was the first song on a Stones album to be sung by Keith Richards alone . This song was used in the soundtrack of the film Zabriskie Point . A version with Mick Jagger can be heard on bootleg versions of the album .

Surname

Originally, the album was Sticky Fingers mean that title then received the LP of 1971 .

Guest musician

The Stones were again supported by a number of guest musicians on this album, including a. Nicky Hopkins and Leon Russell . The haunting gospel vocal part in Gimmie Shelter was contributed by Merry Clayton , a seasoned R&B singer who has recorded albums with Darlene Love and Ray Charles . In Country Honk, a country version of the Honky Tonk Women published only as a single (translatable as "Spelunken-Weiber", see also "Honky-Tonk" ), the violinist Byron Berline of the Flying Burrito Brothers appeared as a guest musician in Love in Vain played Ry Cooder mandolin . The song You Can't Always Get What You Want , arranged by Al Kooper , was recorded with the London Bach Choir. In this anthemic version of the song, Kooper can also be heard on the organ and as a horn player.

The song Live with Me features saxophonist Bobby Keys for the first time on a Rolling Stones record , who from this point in time until the release of Goats Head Soup in 1973 regularly performed in the studio and until his death in 2014 in the concerts. Live with Me is considered the first Rolling Stones title in which the use of wind instruments is not just an accessory, but contributes significantly to the sound.

Cover

The American graphic designer Robert Brownjohn , who received £ 1,000 for his work, was responsible for the design and creation of the cover . On the cover of the record you can see - in the form of a "record changer" - the shellac record Let It Bleed, which has already been lowered , above a cake plate, a roll of film, a clock face, a pizza and a vehicle tire; The whole thing is crowned by a cream-covered cake decorated with cherries, in the middle of which are the replicas of the band members in the style of a wedding chapel. Delia Smith , who at the time was still an unknown author of recipes in the Daily Mirror , an English newspaper , was responsible for making the cake . She later became a popular television presenter and cookbook author in England. The same cake on the back of the record sleeve: one piece is missing, the stones overturned, the record broken. - Inside the record case, the note to play the music loudly (“This Record Should Be Played Loud”).

reception

Let It Bleed is considered by many critics and fans as one of the Rolling Stones best albums. In November 2004, the German edition of Rolling Stone voted it 13th on its list of the “ 500 best albums of all time ”. The US edition of Rolling Stone voted the album at number 32.

Let It Bleed reached number 1 in the British charts and number 3 in the US. Curiously, no song was released from this LP as a single, although Gimmie Shelter or (the blues track that is too long for a single) Midnight Rambler was definitely a hit -Quality - only You Can't Always Get What You Want appeared, with the choir introduction shortened, as B-side on the single Honky Tonk Women released on July 4, 1969 , which was released in Great Britain, the USA, Germany and many reached number 1 in other countries.

Track list

All Mick Jagger and Keith Richards songs unless otherwise noted.

Page 1:

  1. Gimmie Shelter (4:30)
  2. Love in Vain ( Robert Johnson ) (4:19)
  3. Country Honk (3:07)
  4. Live with Me (3:33)
  5. Let It Bleed (5:27)

Page 2:

  1. Midnight Rambler (6:52)
  2. You Got the Silver (2:50)
  3. Monkey Man (4:11)
  4. You Can't Always Get What You Want (7:28)

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. 204-221, 631-662 and 940-942.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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, p. 86 f.
  2. ↑ 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. 88 ff.
  3. ↑ Bill Wyman with Richard Havers: Bill Wyman's Rolling Stones Story . Dorling Kindersley (October 2002), ISBN 978-3831003914 , p. 357.
  4. ↑ Levy, Joe (Ed.): Rolling Stone. The 500 best albums of all time . (Original edition: Rolling Stone. The 500 Greatest Albums of all Time . Wenner Media 2005). Translation: Karin Hofmann. Wiesbaden: White Star Verlag, 2011, p. 51