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''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 UK and London Records in the US . It is also Mick Taylor 's first full-length appearance on a Rolling Stones album. 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 heldover 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 , which is how all of their material from 1963's "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" and "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 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. The artwork for ''Sticky Fingers'' - including a working zipper that opened to reveal a man in cotton briefs (rubber stamped "THIS IS NOT ETC.") - was conceived and photographed by by American band Mötley Crüe on their debut album '' Too Fast For Love ''. In Spain the original cover and " Sister Morphine " was substituted 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. Mick Taylor was reported to have had a hand in composing both "Sway" and "Moonlight Mile" but was denied a co-credit. In 1989, former bassist Bill Wyman opened an 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 . TRACK LISTING All songs written by Mick Jagger And Keith Richards , except where noted. #" Brown Sugar " – 3:50
#" Sway " – 3:52
#" Wild Horses " – 5:44
#" Can't You Hear Me Knocking " – 7:15
#" You Gotta Move " ( Fred McDowell / Rev. Gary Davis ) – 2:34 #" Bitch " – 3:37
#" I Got The Blues " – 3:54
#" Sister Morphine " (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards/ Marianne Faithfull ) – 5:34
#" Dead Flowers " – 4:05
#" Moonlight Mile " – 5:56
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