Start Me Up
Start Me Up is a song by the Rolling Stones . It appeared in 1981 on the album Tattoo You and was previously released as a single. The piece was composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards . The single was released on August 15, 1981 in the USA, Great Britain and Germany with the B-side No Use in Crying and reached number 2 in the US charts for two months in the same year.
Emergence
The song was originally recorded as a demo version for the first time during the recording sessions for the album Sticky Fingers (1970). In the mid-1970s, a reggae version was recorded under the title Never Stop changed. This variant has not yet been officially published, but is only available as a bootleg version. Another recording of the piece was made during the sessions for the album Some Girls in 1978. Recording studios were the Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris, the Compass Point Studios in Nassau (Bahamas) and the Electric Lady Studios in New York.
construction
The basic pattern of the song consists only of the three chords in C major, F major and B major and an additional E- flat chord used in the bridge , with the guitars tuned in Open G.
Windows 95
Starting with the market launch of the Windows 95 operating system in 1995, Microsoft used the song for a marketing campaign. In the advertising, the then new start menu was highlighted, which is why the song fit the theme of the advertising.
Brad Silverberg, who is responsible for Windows 95, negotiated the use of the song on the Microsoft side. He reports that negotiations with the heads of the Rolling Stones were difficult to the end. Mick Jagger was initially reluctant to license the song for artistic reasons. With $ 3 million negotiated, Keith Richards moved him to give in and Start Me Up became the Rolling Stones' first song to be featured in a commercial.
Brad Silverberg goes on to report that Microsoft initially received a kind of live version of the piece. This more recent recording would have promised Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, in contrast to those involved in the studio version, significantly higher earnings. Microsoft insisted on the familiar studio version and received it for further use.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Bob Herbold: Bob Herbold talks about Bill Gates and Mick Jagger . Accessed August 3, 2011.
- ↑ www.businessinsider.com: How Mick Jagger And Keith Richards Tried To Screw Over Bandmates On The Windows 95 Ads . Accessed August 26, 2010.