OT: The Music Thread Part 7

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Rolling Stones

It's Only Rock 'N Roll


Can't Always Get What You Want


Miss You


Useless Factoid Dept.:

The fellow who created the album art for It's Only Rock 'N Roll

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was stolen away by David upon getting wind of the impending nuptials.

Bowie preemptively commissioned Guy Peellaert


to design the cover art for his latest, beating Mick to the punch,


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The version of "You Can't Always Get What You Want" published above is, as most here likely know, derived from 1968's Rolling Stones Rock N' Roll Circus,


featuring John Lennon, the Who, and, in his final appearance with the Stones -- the band he formed and initially led -- the bloated carcass of the soon to be late, great, drugged out beyond belief Brian Jones,



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As for "Miss You," the Rolling Stones sell out -- again. Disco was Queen in '78, so, you know, naturally. (I can see Charlie rolling his eyes, metaphorically if not literally, that supremely bored, contemptuous smirk on his mug.)

From, to me, the very last great album the Rolling Stones ever released (the lo-fi charms of 1972's double whammy Exile On Main Street aside; no, imho, not their best, whatever grunge worshiping '90s critics had you believe), to include the good but not great Tattoo You (1981).

And I'm *still* "Waiting On a Friend."
 
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