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The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers

Rolling Stones in1972
Jul 13, 2012 Updated Jul 27, 2012

In honour of their 50th anniversary, the band's ninth studio album - released in 1971 - is this week's feature.

Tracklist:

1. "Brown Sugar" 3:48
2. "Sway" 3:50
3. "Wild Horses" 5:42
4. "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" 7:14
5. "You Gotta Move" 2:32
6. "Bitch" 3:38
7. "I Got the Blues" 3:54
8. "Sister Morphine" 5:31
9. "Dead Flowers" 4:03
10. "Moonlight Mile" 5:56

External Review:

"Reviews at the time complained that Sticky Fingers lacked the bite of previous releases like Let It Bleed or Beggars Banquet, but it’s this very quality that makes the album special...While many hold their next album, Exile On Main St., as their zenith, Sticky Fingers, balancing on the knife edge between the 60s and 70s, remains their most coherent statement".

[ Chris Jones, BBC Music ]

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The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. The first settled line-up consisted of Brian Jones on guitar and harmonica, Ian Stewart on piano, Mick Jagger on lead vocals and harmonica, Keith Richards on guitar and backing vocals, Bill Wyman on bass and Charlie Watts on drums. Jones founded and led the band, but Jagger and Richards assumed leadership after becoming the...

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