The most provocative song, though, was Brown Sugar, which has been a classic and a constant presence in their set-list ever since.īrown Sugar, just like a young girl should. The searingly honest Sister Morphine was co-written by Jagger, Richards and Marianne Faithfull, though she wasn’t credited at the time and had to take legal action to get her co-writer credits. The title Sticky Fingers was obviously open to interpretation. The man was clearly well-endowed, though the model wasn’t – as rumours at the time suggested – Mr Jagger himself. The cover of the 12″ vinyl disc showed the crotch of a guy wearing tight jeans, which unzipped a few inches. For the cover, they commissioned Andy Warhol to come up with something original, and he certainly didn’t let them down. It was the first to appear on their own new record label, Rolling Stones Records, and the first without their founder member Brian Jones, who had died in 1969. If you weren’t around at the time, it’s hard to appreciate the impact this album had. For this is the toilet in which Rolling Stone Keith Richards finished writing the song Wild Horses for their 1971 Sticky Fingers album, acclaimed as their best ever recording. ![]() I’m with a group of music writers who have flown from Austria and Amsterdam, from Hamburg and Hanover, from New York and London, and we’re the first outsiders allowed to gaze at this toilet for many years. In fact people are queuing up to look at the toilet, and even have their private moments inside the cubicle that’s just a few feet square. I’ve come all the way to the tiny town of Muscle Shoals in Alabama and I’m looking at a toilet. ![]() Mike Gerrard heads for Muscle Shoals in Alabama, where he is one of only a handful of journalists to get a first look behind the scenes at the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios.
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