Sticky Fingers

Sticky Fingers
LP by The Rolling Stones
Released	April 23, 1971
Recorded	1971 (?)
Genre	Rock
Length	46 min 06 sec
Record label	???
Producer	Jimmy Miller
Professional reviews
All Music Guide	5/5
Rolling Stones Chronology
Let It Bleed (1969)	Sticky Fingers (1971)	Exile on Main Street (1972)

Sticky Fingers is an album by The Rolling Stones released on 23 May, 1971. The band's first studio album for over a year, it was also the first on its own record label, Rolling Stones Records, and its first full album with guitarist Mick Taylor as a member.

Like many of the Rolling Stones' albums, it was a compilation of tracks written and recorded over several years. The provenance of the tracks is given below:

• Brown Sugar: composed by Mick Jagger in Australia in mid 1969. Recorded initially at Muscle Shoals Studios, AL, in December 1969. Further overdubbing done at Olympic Studios, London, April 1970.
• Sway: composed chiefly by Mick Jagger in 1970. Recorded at Stargroves (Jagger's country house) in October 1970, probably with piano and string overdubs at a later date (February 1971).
• Wild Horses: verses by Jagger, chorus by Keith Richards, composed early in 1969. (Despite persistent rumours, Gram Parsons had nothing to do with the authorship of the song.) Recorded initially at Muscle Shoals Studios, AL, in December 1969. Further overdubbing done at Olympic Studios, London, February 1970.
• Can't You Hear Me Knocking: composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (although the second, 'coda' part is an improvisation, and Mick Taylor should probably receive some credit for it). Recorded in at Olympic Studios, London, June-July 1970.
• You Gotta Move: composed by Mississippi Fred McDowell and Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman. Other musicians on the album include keyboard players Billy Preston, Nicky Hopkins and Ian 'Stu' Stewart, sax player Bobby Keys and guitarist Ry Cooder.

The album cover was designed by Andy Warhol; the original LP version had a real zip on the pants. The photo is supposedly of Warhol 'superstar' Joe Dallesandro. Note that Warhol had nothing to do with the design of the Rolling Stones Records tongue logo, which has now become synonymous with the Stones themselves.

Brown Sugar, backed with Bitch and in some countries a live version of Chuck Berry's Let It Rock (recorded in Leeds in March 1971), was released as a single. In the USA a second single, coupling Wild Horses and Sway, was also released.

Sticky Fingers remains one of the band's most successful albums, reaching number 1 in both the UK and US. It is estimated to have sold 6 million copies worldwide through 2000.

Track listing

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

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Sticky Fingers is also the name of a restaurant in London owned by Bill Wyman