Tattoo You
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| The Rolling Stones studio album | ||||
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Publication |
18./28. August 1981 |
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| Label (s) | Rolling Stones Records; First distribution: Atlantic, EMI | |||
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Format (s) |
LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
44:23 |
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| occupation | Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood, Mick Taylor, Bill Wyman | |||
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Studio (s) |
November 1972 - June 1981 in various studios |
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Tattoo You [tə'tu: ju:] is the Rolling Stones' 16th album and was released in August 1981 by Atlantic and EMI .
Immediately after its release, the album entered the US Billboard charts at number 1 and stayed there for nine weeks, in Great Britain the album reached number 2.
Tattoo You is the Rolling Stones' best-selling album to date.
History of the album
The songs were created during previous recording sessions in the studios Compass Point Studios ( Nassau ), Pathé Marconi ( Paris ), Electric Lady ( New York ), RSM ( Rotterdam ), Musicland ( Munich ), Dynamic Sound ( Kingston ), Atlantic (New York) and Village Recorders ( Los Angeles ). In this respect, Mick Taylor , who retired in 1974, can also be heard as guitarist (Tops and Waiting on a Friend). In addition to the Rolling Stones, the following musicians were also involved: Sonny Rollins (saxophone), Ian Stewart (piano), Billy Preston (organ), Nicky Hopkins (keyboards), Wayne Perkins (guitar solo on Worried About You ), Ollie Brown and Kasper Winding (percussion) and Pete Townshend (background vocals on slave ).
Despite the different times of the recordings, the album sounds fresh and self-contained. It is noticeable that on the A side of the LP the rather fast pieces are gathered, on the B side the slower pieces. With Start Me Up and Waiting on a Friend , the album contains two tracks that have become Stones classics. In Black Limousine and No Use in Crying is Ron Wood named as co-author.
After publication of the LP The Rolling Stones began on 25 September 1981 their tour of the USA, in which the then relatively unknown musician Prince with his backing band as opening act occurred for two concerts. But his two concerts on October 9 and 11, 1981 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum turned into a debacle and Prince was booed off the stage by the audience.
The single Start Me Up reached number 2 on the charts in the USA, making it the Rolling Stones' last big hit for the time being. Either in 1975 or 1977/78 this song was recorded under the title Never Stop as a reggae version, but never released.
Track list
Page 1:
- Start Me Up (Jagger / Richards) - 3:31
- Hang Fire (Jagger / Richards) - 2:21
- Slave (Jagger / Richards) - 6:34
- Little T & A (Jagger / Richards) - 3:21
- Black Limousine (Jagger / Richards / Wood) - 3:31
- Neighbors (Jagger / Richards) - 3:32
Page 2:
- Worried About You (Jagger / Richards) - 5:16
- Tops (Jagger / Richards) - 3:46
- Heaven (Jagger / Richards) - 4:21
- No Use in Crying (Jagger / Richards / Wood) - 3:28
- Waiting on a Friend (Jagger / Richards) - 4:32
literature
- Ben Greenman: Dig If You Will the Picture - Funk, Sex and God in the Music of Prince. Faber & Faber Ltd, London 2017, ISBN 978-0-571-33326-4
- Bill Wyman: Bill Wyman's Rolling Stones Story. Dorling Kindersley, Starnberg, 2002 ISBN 3-8310-0391-2 , p. 467
Web links
- Tattoo You at Allmusic (English)
- Tattoo You at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine on allmusic.com (English)
- ↑ Greenmann (2017), pp. 211-213.