ROLLING STONES: STICKY FINGERS (SPANISH ALT. COVER)

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ROLLING STONES “STICKY FINGERS” IMPORT SPANISH PRESSING LP.

• Original (There is a reissue)
• Back cover is color picture of B&W picture in US release.
• Also includes insert in Spanish.
• Cover is different as the "tongue cover" was objected to by the Spanish rock police.

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CONDITION

Cover: VG

Insert: M-

Record: VG

MATRIX NUMBERS (NOTE: These are important to distinguish pressing)

HRSS-591-01-A-1.

HRSS-591-01-B-1.

The (ummm) cover story(?)

In Spain the original cover was replaced with a "Can of fingers" cover, and "Sister Morphine" was replaced by the Chuck Berry composition "Let it Rock".

Side 1 track-listing is as in the UK version but side 2 omits Sister Morphine and includes a petulant 30 second silence as well as the kick-ass Let It Rock from the Brown Sugar single.

In case you don't know the story...General Franco's authoritarian Spain banned the overt drug-referenced Sister Morphine (but missed references in Dead Flowers) so the Stones record label sulked and included 30 seconds of silence (a la John Cage).

Of course, Andy Warhol's naughty zipper cover had to go as well so a photo of desembodied female fingers emerging from a messily opened can of treacle was used to attract buyers. This image has become an icon itself and is a popular litho print.

The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers

Sticky Fingers is an album by English rock band The Rolling Stones, released in April 1971. It is the band's first release on the band's newly-formed label, Rolling Stones Records, 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, was held over 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".

Tracks:

Side one

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

Side two

Bitch – 3:37

I Got the Blues – 3:54

Let it Rock

Dead Flowers – 4:05

Moonlight Mile – 5:56

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