The album's artwork emphasises the suggestive innuendo of the Sticky Fingers title, showing a close-up of a jeans-clad male crotch with the visible outline of a penis the cover of the original (vinyl LP) release featured a working zipper and perforations around the belt buckle that opened to reveal a sub-cover image of white briefs. The Rolling Stones posing in an ad with covers of Sticky Fingers, with the original artwork, in 1971, from left to right: Charlie Watts, Mick Taylor, Bill Wyman, Keith Richards, and Mick Jagger According to Rolling Stone magazine, it is "the Stones' most downbeat, druggy album, with new guitarist Mick Taylor stretching into jazz and country". The music has been characterised by commentators as hard rock, roots rock and rock and roll. Sticky Fingers originally included 10 tracks. were also rehearsed during these sessions. Early versions of songs that would eventually appear on Exile on Main St. Much of the recording for Sticky Fingers was made with the Rolling Stones' mobile studio in Stargroves during the summer and autumn of 1970. Instead, Decca released the two-year-old Beggars Banquet track " Street Fighting Man" while Klein retained dual copyright ownership in conjunction with The Rolling Stones of " Brown Sugar" and " Wild Horses."Īlthough sessions for Sticky Fingers began in earnest in March 1970, the Rolling Stones had been recording at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama in December 1969, where they cut " You Gotta Move," " Brown Sugar" and " Wild Horses." " Sister Morphine," cut during Let It Bleed's sessions earlier in March of that year, had been held over from that release. When Decca informed the Rolling Stones that they were owed one more single, the band submitted a track called " Cocksucker Blues", correctly assuming that this would be refused. The band would remain incensed with Klein for decades for that act. The band later sued for their return but without success, settling in 1984. However, their departing manager Allen Klein dealt the group a major blow when they discovered that they had inadvertently signed over their entire 1960s American copyrights to Klein and his company ABKCO, which is how all of their material from 1963's " Come On" to Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert has since been released solely in America by ABKCO Records. With the end of their Decca/London association at hand, the Rolling Stones were finally free to release their albums (cover art and all) as they pleased. The album is inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame and included in Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. Sticky Fingers was voted the second best album of the year in The Village Voice 's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll for 1971, based on American critics' votes. " Brown Sugar” topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971. It was the band's first album to reach number one on both the UK albums and US albums charts, and has since achieved triple platinum certification in the US. Sticky Fingers is considered one of the Rolling Stones' best albums. As with the other albums of the Rolling Stones classic late 1960s/early 1970s period, it was produced by Jimmy Miller. Additional contributions were made by long-time Stones collaborators including saxophonist Bobby Keys and keyboardists Billy Preston, Jack Nitzsche, Ian Stewart, and Nicky Hopkins. The unusual instrumentation introduced several albums prior was absent most songs featuring drums, guitar, bass, and percussion as provided by the key members: Mick Jagger (lead vocal, various percussion and rhythm guitar), Keith Richards (guitar and backing vocal), Mick Taylor (guitar), Bill Wyman (bass guitar), and Charlie Watts (drums). The album featured a return to basics for the Rolling Stones. The cover was expensive to produce and damaged the vinyl record, so later re-issues featured just the outer photograph of the jeans. The original cover artwork, conceived by Andy Warhol and photographed and designed by members of his art collective, The Factory, showed a picture of a man in tight jeans, and had a working zip that opened to reveal underwear fabric. It was the first studio album without Brian Jones who died two years earlier. On this album Mick Taylor made his second full-length appearance on a Rolling Stones album (after the live album Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!). They had been contracted by Decca Records and London Records in the UK and the US since 1963. The Stones released it on 23 April 1971 on their new, and own label Rolling Stones Records. Sticky Fingers is the 9th British and 11th American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |