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The Rolling Stones' studio receipt for recording 'Wild Horses' and
'Brown Sugar'
09.19.2014
08:53 am
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The Rolling Stones' studio receipt for recording 'Wild Horses' and
'Brown Sugar'

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Bill Wyman, Jimmy Johnson, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Marshall
Chess (president of Rolling Stones Records), Ahmet Ertegun (president
of Atlantic Records) and Terry Woodford
 
Is Sticky Fingers the Stones' best album? What do you think? There's
a lot of competition, Let It Bleed, Exile on Main Street, Beggars
Banquet...... Sticky Fingers is up there, though.

Sticky Fingers was one of the first albums recorded at Muscle Shoals
Sound Studio, in Sheffield, Alabama, having been founded by the
Swampers just a couple years earlier. Over the course of the 1970s a
lot of great music was recorded there, from Paul Simon and Rod
Stewart to Bob Dylan, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and beyond. Cher's album 3614
Jackson Highway takes its title from the studio's address. In 2009
Akron's the Black Keys came down to Muscle Shoals to cut Brothers,
which ended up winning a Grammy.

As it happens, only three songs off of Sticky Fingers were recorded
at Muscle Shoals, but two of them were the album's only two singles
and are without question the most immortal tracks off the album:
"Wild Horses" and "Brown Sugar." (The third song recorded at Muscle
Shoals was "You Gotta Move.")
 
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(Click on the image for a larger version.)
 
Here's the receipt that Muscle Shoals remitted to the Stones, or more
precisely ABKCO, being the company founded by one Allen B. Klein, the
shark tasked with managing both the Beatles and the Stones for a
time. The Sticky Fingers sessions ran from December 2 to 4, 1969,
with the rest of the album being recorded during much of 1970. This
session was one of the last times Klein would be their manager, as
the Stones would jettison him (as much as was possible) as soon as
they could. As you can see, the receipt helpfully says "The Rolling
Stones / Wild Horses" right on it. 

So that's that: In 1969 recorded two of rock music's greatest songs
and paid a cool grand for the privilege. That amount of money
translates into about $6,500 today.

Here are some wonderful pics of the Stones (found here) recording
parts of Sticky Fingers at Muscle Shoals:
 
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Mick Taylor, Keith Richards, and Ian Stewart (standing)
 
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Charlie Watts
 
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Bill Wyman, Jimmy Johnson, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, and Ian
Stewart
 
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Mick Jagger recording the percussion on "Brown Sugar"
 
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Mick Taylor working out on the congas
 
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Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama
 
via Blue Arrow Records

Posted by Martin Schneider
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09.19.2014
08:53 am
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