Sticky Fingers
The first album on the band's own label: Brown Sugar, Wild Horses and a Warhol cover.
The Rolling Stones, 1971
- Released
- 23 April 1971
- Recorded
- 1969 to 1970
- Studio
- Muscle Shoals Sound, Alabama; Olympic and Trident, London; Stargroves, Newbury (mobile)
- Label
- Rolling Stones Records
- Producer
- Jimmy Miller
- Length
- 46:25
It was the first release on Rolling Stones Records. The cover concept came from Andy Warhol, with design by Craig Braun. Mick Taylor joined the band for it, and Ry Cooder is credited with slide guitar on You Gotta Move. The engineers were Glyn Johns, Andy Johns and Chris Kimsey.
It spent four weeks at number one in both the UK and the US, and stayed 69 weeks on the American chart. Brown Sugar reached number one in the US. Jon Landau, in Rolling Stone in 1971, found forced attempts at style and control, while Alexis Petridis of the Guardian ranked it the band's best album in 2018.
Track listing
- Brown Sugar3:48
- Sway3:50
- Wild Horses5:42
- Can't You Hear Me Knocking7:14
- You Gotta Move2:32
- Bitch3:38
- I Got the Blues3:54
- Sister Morphine5:31
- Dead Flowers4:03
- Moonlight Mile5:56
Personnel
- Mick Jagger vocals
- Keith Richards guitars
- Mick Taylor guitar
- Bill Wyman bass
- Charlie Watts drums
- Ian Stewart keyboards
- Nicky Hopkins keyboards
- Billy Preston keyboards
- Jim Dickinson keyboards
- Jack Nitzsche keyboards
- Ry Cooder slide guitar on You Gotta Move
- Bobby Keys saxophone
- Jim Price horns
- Paul Buckmaster strings
- Rocky Dijon congas
- Jimmy Miller producer
More from The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones (1964), Out of Our Heads (1965), Aftermath (1966), Beggars Banquet (1968), Let It Bleed (1969), Exile on Main St. (1972), Goats Head Soup (1973), Some Girls (1978), Tattoo You (1981), Hackney Diamonds (2023)
Sources
- Sticky Fingers, Wikipedia
- The Rolling Stones discography, Wikipedia