Sticky Fingers

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Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones studio album

Publication
(s)

April 23, 1971

admission

March 22, 1969 - March 31, 1969
December 2, 1969 - October 31, 1970

Label (s) Rolling Stones Records

Format (s)

LP , CD , MC , SACD

Genre (s)

Blues , rock

Title (number)

10

running time

46:25

occupation

production

Jimmy Miller

Studio (s)

chronology
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones In Concert
(1970) 		Sticky Fingers Exile on Main Street
(1972)

Sticky Fingers is the ninth studio album by the British rock band The Rolling Stones and was released in 1971 on the in-house label . It was produced by Jimmy Miller , who was the band's producer from 1968 to 1973. Sticky Fingers is considered to be one of the best albums by the Rolling Stones, among other things it ranks 64th in the list of the 500 best albums of all time by the music magazine Rolling Stone .

History of the album

The album Sticky Fingers , released on April 23, 1971, marks a turning point in the history of the Stones because it is the first album by the band that they released under their own record label, Rolling Stones Records (COC 59100) after they split from Decca Records . On this album, the tongue logo appears for the first time, which the Stones had specially designed by the designer John Pasche and which has adorned all of the band's releases since then. The tongue logo is a registered trademark . Particularly noticeable for the time was the record cover, which was designed by Andy Warhol for 15,000 pounds and shows the lower body (of the actor Joe Dallesandro ) in skinny skinny jeans from the front and back, clearly showing the sexual organ . A real, functional zipper was incorporated into the pants. After opening the zipper, white underwear could be seen.

The album was recorded in the period from March 1969 to January 1971 with the Rolling Stones Mobile and in various studios (Olympic, Muscle Shoals, Stargroves and Trident). Numerous guest musicians participated in the recordings, such as Billy Preston , Nicky Hopkins , Ian Stewart , Bobby Keys and Ry Cooder . It was the first full studio album that Mick Taylor took part in.

Many of the tracks included are rock classics today, most notably the hit Brown Sugar . The country songs Wild Horses and Dead Flowers ("Wilted Flowers") are due to the influence of Gram Parsons on Keith Richards. With the exception of You Gotta Move ( Fred McDowell ), the songs are all penned by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards . For the song Sister Morphine (" Sister Morphine ") Marianne Faithfull is now named as co-author: the lyrics in which a dying man desperately desperately needs morphine comes largely from her.

Sticky Fingers reached number 1 in the UK and US pop album charts.

Track list

  1. Brown Sugar (Jagger / Richards) - 3:49
  2. Sway (Jagger / Richards) - 3:51
  3. Wild Horses (Jagger / Richards) - 5:42
  4. Can't You Hear Me Knocking (Jagger / Richards) - 7:14
  5. You Gotta Move (Davis / McDowell) - 2:32
  6. Bitch (Jagger / Richards) - 3:36
  7. I Got the Blues (Jagger / Richards) - 3:52
  8. Sister Morphine (Faithfull / Jagger / Richards) - 5:31
  9. Dead Flowers (Jagger / Richards) - 4:03
  10. Moonlight Mile (Jagger / Richards) - 5:56

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. 222-241 ( Sticky Fingers / Schmierfinger ), 663-693 and 942 f.

Web links

Footnotes

Remarks

  1. ↑ It is said that the original zipper is missing in later editions of the record because record shops complained that other records were damaged by the metal slide and slide handle. Allegedly, dealers also let the plate go back because the trouser gusset was so highlighted. See A. Vazirini: Warhol's Greatest Album Covers , San Francisco Chronicle , February 8, 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2012) on rollingstone.com, accessed September 7, 2017
  2. ↑ John Pasche's website ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( Flash required) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.johnpasche.com
  3. ↑ Michail Hengstenberg: Farewell to the cover lover . On July 20, 2011 from spiegel.de, accessed on July 25, 2018
  4. ↑ Steve Apple Ford: The Rolling Stones - Rip This Joint, 104 S. ISBN 3-927638-11-0
  5. ↑ allmusic.com: Chart placement by Sticky Fingers
  6. ↑ everyhit.com UK charts