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{{Infobox Album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
| Name = Sticky Fingers
| Type = studio
| Artist = [[The Rolling Stones]]
| Cover = RSSF71.jpg
| Released = [[April 23]], [[1971]]
| Recorded = [[Muscle Shoals Sound Studio]] and [[Olympic Studios]] [[December 2]]-[[December 4|4]], [[1969]] <br />[[February 17]], [[1970]], <br />March–May 1970, <br />[[June 16]]–[[July 27]], [[1970]] <br />[[October 17]]–[[October 31|31]], [[1970]], January 1971, except <br />"[[Sister Morphine]]": begun [[March 22]]–[[March 31|31]], [[1969]]
| Genre = [[Rock music|Rock]]
| Length = 46:25
| Label = [[Rolling Stones Records|Rolling Stones]], [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]
| Producer = [[Jimmy Miller (musician)|Jimmy Miller]]
| Reviews =
*[[Allmusic]] {{Rating-5|5}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Abe3ibkj96akc link]
*[[BBC]] (favourable) [http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/4pzf/ link]
*[[Robert Christgau]] (A) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=rolling+stone link]
*''[[NME]]'' {{Rating|9|10}} <small>7/9/94, p.43</small> <ref>http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1033014/a/Sticky+Fingers.htm</ref>
*''[[Rolling Stone]]'' (mixed) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/therollingstones/albums/album/99494/review/6068307/sticky_fingers <small>6/10/71</small>]
*[[Yahoo! Music]] (favourable) [http://music.yahoo.com/read/review/12036279 <small>1/01/71</small>]
| Last album = ''[[Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert]]''<br />(1970)
| This album = '''''Sticky Fingers'''''<br />(1971)
| Next album = ''[[Exile on Main St.]]''<br />(1972)
| Misc = {{Extra album cover 2
| Upper caption = Alternate cover
| Type = studio
| Cover = RS_StickyF-Esp71.jpg
| Lower caption = Cover of Spanish edition
}}
}}
'''''Sticky Fingers''''' is an [[album]] by [[The Rolling Stones]] and was released in 1971. It is notable for being the band's first release on their newly-formed [[Rolling Stones Records]] label after having been contracted since 1963 with [[Decca Records]] in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] and [[London Records]] in the [[United States|US]]. It is also [[Mick Taylor]]'s first full-length appearance on a Rolling Stones album (with the exception of [[Sister Morphine]] in which he does not perform).
==Recording and release==
Although sessions for ''Sticky Fingers'' began in earnest in March 1970, they had done some early recording at Muscle Shoals Studios in [[Alabama]] in December 1969 and "[[Sister Morphine]]", cut during ''[[Let It Bleed]]'''s sessions earlier in March of that year, would be held over for this release. Much of the recording for ''Sticky Fingers'' was effected with The Rolling Stones' mobile studio unit in [[Stargroves]] during the summer and fall months in 1970. Early versions of songs that would appear on ''[[Exile on Main St.]]'' were also routined during these sessions.
With the end of their Decca/London association at hand, The Rolling Stones would finally be free to release their albums (cover art and all) as they pleased. However, soon-to-be-ex-manager [[Allen Klein]] (who took over the reins from [[Andrew Loog Oldham]] in 1965 so that Oldham could concentrate on producing the band), dealt the group a major blow when they discovered - to their horror - that they had inadvertently signed over their entire 1960s copyrights to Klein and his company [[ABKCO Records|ABKCO]], which is how all of their material from 1963's "[[Come On (Chuck Berry song)|Come On]]" to ''[[Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert]]'' has since come to be released by ABKCO Records. The band would remain incensed with Klein for decades over the swindle.
When Decca informed The Rolling Stones that they were owed one more single, they cheekily submitted a track called "Cocksucker Blues" - which was guaranteed to be refused. Instead, Decca released the two-year-old ''[[Beggars Banquet]]'' track "[[Street Fighting Man]]" while Allen Klein would have dual copyright ownership - with The Rolling Stones - of "[[Brown Sugar (song)|Brown Sugar]]" and "[[Wild Horses (song)|Wild Horses]]".
''Sticky Fingers'' may just be the band's most drug-drenched album, as well over half of the songs mention drug use, while the rest merely allude to it. Some final overdubbing and mixing in January 1971, found the album complete and preceded by "Brown Sugar" that March, which reached #1 in the US and #2 in the UK. Appearing in April on their new Rolling Stones label (with distribution by [[Warner Music|WEA Music]]), ''Sticky Fingers'' was rapturously-received and hit #1 worldwide, beginning an uninterrupted string of eight consecutive chart-topping US studio albums. "Wild Horses", covered by [[Keith Richard]]'s friend [[Gram Parsons]] with [[The Flying Burrito Brothers]], was the second single in the US only, making the Top 30.
==Cover==
The artwork for ''Sticky Fingers'' - including a working zipper that opened to reveal a man in cotton briefs (rubber stamped "THIS PHOTOGRAPH MAY NOT BE-ETC.") - was conceived by [[Andy Warhol]], photographed by [[Billy Name]], designed by Craig Braun and featured the lower torso of either Warhol assistant Jed Johnson<ref>[http://www.superseventies.com/ac2stickyfingers.html] superseventies.com</ref> or [[Joe Dallesandro]]<ref>[http://www.joedallesandro.com/Dallewho.htm] Joe Dallesandro.com</ref> (not Mick Jagger as a number of fans at the time speculated) in a pair of tight jeans. After retailers complained that the zipper was causing damage to the vinyl (from stacked shipments of the record), the zipper was "unzipped" slightly to the middle of the record, where damage would be minimized. In [[Spain]], General Franco proved his rock and roll credentials by substituting the original cover and "Sister Morphine" with a "Can of fingers" cover and the [[Chuck Berry]] composition "Let it Rock", recorded March 13th, 1971 at the [[University of Leeds]]. The album features the first usage of the "''Tongue and Lip Design''" designed by [[John Pasche]].
In 1994, ''Sticky Fingers'' was remastered and reissued by [[Virgin Records]]. In 2003 the [[TV network]] [[VH1]] named ''Sticky Fingers'' the "No.1 Greatest Album Cover" of all time. (Be that as it may, the zipper was prone to cause damage to any album cover stacked next to it.)
In 1989, bassist [[Bill Wyman]] opened an [[United States|American]] cuisine [[restaurant]] entitled "Sticky Fingers".
In 2003, ''Sticky Fingers'' was listed as number 63 on the [[List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]].
The [[American South|southeastern US]] [[barbecue]] [[restaurant]] [[Sticky Fingers (restaurant)|Sticky Fingers]] was named after the album and features the album framed in every restaurant.
==Track listing==
All songs written by [[Jagger/Richards|Mick Jagger and Keith Richards]], except where noted.
#"[[Brown Sugar (song)|Brown Sugar]]" – 3:50
#* Features [[Bobby Keys]] on saxophone and [[Ian Stewart (musician)|Ian Stewart]] on [[piano]]
#"[[Sway (The Rolling Stones song)|Sway]]" – 3:52
#* Features [[Nicky Hopkins]] on piano
#* Features [[Mick Jagger]] on rhythm guitar and [[Keith Richards]] on back-up vocals
#"[[Wild Horses (song)|Wild Horses]]" – 5:44
#*Features [[Jim Dickinson]] on piano
#"[[Can't You Hear Me Knocking]]" – 7:15
#* Features [[Billy Preston]] on [[organ (music)|organ]], [[Bobby Keys]] on saxophone and percussion by Jimmy Miller
#"[[You Gotta Move (song)|You Gotta Move]]" ([[Fred McDowell]]/[[Rev. Gary Davis]]) – 2:34
#* Features [[Bill Wyman]] on [[electric piano]]
#"[[Bitch (Rolling Stones song)|Bitch]]" – 3:37
#* Features Bobby Keys on saxophone and [[Jim Price]] on trumpet. Percussion by Jimmy Miller
#"[[I Got the Blues]]" – 3:54
#* Features Billy Preston on organ
#"[[Sister Morphine]]" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards/[[Marianne Faithfull]]) – 5:34
#* Features [[Ry Cooder]] on [[guitar]] and Jack Nitszche on piano
#* Mick Taylor does not appear on the track, recorded in 1969
#"[[Dead Flowers]]" – 4:05
#* Features Ian Stewart on piano and Mick Jagger on acoustic guitar
#"[[Moonlight Mile (Rolling Stones song)|Moonlight Mile]]" – 5:56
#* Features Jim Price on piano
#* Features Mick Jagger on acoustic guitar
#* Keith Richards does not appear on this track
==Personnel==
* [[Mick Jagger]] – vocals, acoustic guitar, backing vocals, guitar, percussion
* [[Keith Richards]] – backing vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals, guitar
* [[Mick Taylor]] – electric guitar, guitar, acoustic guitar, slide guitar
* [[Charlie Watts]] – drums
* [[Bill Wyman]] – bass, electric piano
===Additional personnel===
* [[Ian Stewart (musician)|Ian Stewart]] – piano
* [[Nicky Hopkins]] – piano
* [[Bobby Keys]] – saxophone
* [[Jim Price]] – trumpet, piano
* [[Billy Preston]] – organ
* [[Jim Dickinson]] – piano
* Rocky Dijon – congas
* [[Jack Nitzsche]] – piano
* [[Ry Cooder]] – slide guitar
* [[Jimmy Miller]] – percussion
* [[Paul Buckmaster]] – string arrangement
==Charts==
===Album===
{|class="wikitable"
! Year
! Chart
! Position
|-
| 1971
| UK Top 50 Albums
|align="center"| 1
|-
| 1971
| Billboard Pop Albums
|align="center"| 1
|-
|}
===Singles===
{|class="wikitable"
! Year
! Single
! Chart
! Position
|-
| 1971
| "Brown Sugar" / "Bitch" & "Let It Rock"
| UK Top 50 Singles
|align="center"| 2
|-
| 1971
| "Brown Sugar"
| The Billboard Hot 100
|align="center"| 1
|-
| 1971
| "Wild Horses"
| The Billboard Hot 100
|align="center"| 28
|-
|}
==References==
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| before = ''[[4 Way Street]]'' by [[Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young)|Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young]]
| title = [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] [[Number-one albums of 1971 (U.S.)|number-one album]]
| years = [[May 22]] - [[June 18]] [[1971]]
| after = ''[[Tapestry (album)|Tapestry]]'' by [[Carole King]]
}}
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