The Rolling Stones It's Only Rock 'n Roll

The Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock 'n Roll
Released : October 1974
Label : Rolling Stones Records
Format : Mp3@320



The album to spawn the production duo The Glimmer Twins, a.k.a. Jagger and Richards.
It is also marks the first appearance on a Stones album by Ronnie Wood as he plays 12 string guitar on the single, “It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll”. The earliest versions of this iconic song were recorded in Ronnie’s home studio and he is credited with inspiring the song. Given the song’s place among live shows during the next four decades it did surprisingly badly when it was released as the lead single from the album. It got to number ten in the UK and number seventeen in America, although it did make number three in France. The second single from the album was the only cover on the record, the Temptations’ “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg”. This was also the last album to feature Mick Taylor as a band member as he left soon after its release. The cover features a painting by Guy Peelaert and it won an award as the best cover of the year.

Tracklist:
1. If You Can't Rock Me (3:46)
2. Ain't Too Proud To Beg (3:32)
3. It's Only Rock 'N Roll (But I Like It) (5:09)
4. Till The Next Goodbye (4:38 )
5. Time Waits For No One (6:39)
6. Luxury (4:31)
7. Dance Little Sister (4:11)
8. If You Really Want To Be My Friend (6:16)
9. Short And Curlies (2:44)
10. Fingerprint File (6:34)

Mick Jagger – lead and backing vocals, guitar
Keith Richards – electric and acoustic guitar, backing vocals, bass guitar
Mick Taylor – electric, acoustic and slide guitar, backing vocals, synthesizer, congas, bass guitar
Charlie Watts – drums
Bill Wyman – bass guitar, synthesizer

Additional musicians:
Nicky Hopkins – piano on "Till the Next Goodbye", "Time Waits for No One", "Luxury", "If You Really Want to Be My Friend", and "Fingerprint File"
Billy Preston – piano, clavinet on "If You Can't Rock Me", "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" and "Fingerprint File"
Ian Stewart – piano on "It's Only Rock 'n Roll", "Dance Little Sister" and "Short and Curlies"
Ray Cooper – percussion
Blue Magic – backing vocals on "If You Really Want to Be My Friend"
Charlie Jolly – tabla on "Fingerprint File"
Ed Leach – cowbell on "Ain't Too Proud to Beg"
Kenney Jones – drums
Willie Weeks – bass guitar
David Bowie – backing vocals
Ronnie Wood – twelve-string acoustic guitar and backing