Song of the day for April 23, 2024
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Wild Horses by the Rolling Stones is today’s featured song.
On this day in 1971, The Rolling Stones released Sticky Fingers, their ninth UK studio album. It was their debut LP for their own label, Rolling Stones Records. The album featured a provocative front cover created by pop art guru Andy Warhol, who was paid $15,000 to design a functioning zipper showing the crotch area of a man’s jeans. The album also marked the first time that the band’s John Pasche-designed lips and tongue logo was used.
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!). It was the first studio album without Brian Jones, who died two years earlier.
The album featured a return to basics for the Rolling Stones. The unusual instrumentation introduced several albums prior was absent, with most songs featuring drums, guitar, bass, and percussion as provided by the key members: Mick Jagger (lead vocals, various percussion and rhythm guitar), Keith Richards (guitar and backing vocals), Mick Taylor (guitar), Bill Wyman (bass guitar), and Charlie Watts (drums).
Additional contributions were made by long-time Stones collaborators including saxophonist Bobby Keys and keyboardists Billy Preston, Jack Nitzsche, Ian Stewart, and Nicky Hopkins. As with the other albums of the Rolling Stones late 1960s/early 1970s period, it was produced by Jimmy Miller.
