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Name = Sticky Fingers |
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Type = [[Album]] |
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Artist = The [[Rolling Stones]] |
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| name = Sticky Fingers
Background = Orange |
| type = studio
Released = [[April 23]], [[1971]] |
| artist = [[the Rolling Stones]]
Recorded = [[March]] [[1969]] – [[January]] [[1971]] |
| cover = The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers.png
Genre = [[Rock and roll|Rock]] |
| border = yes
Length = 46 [[minute|min]] 06 [[second|s]] |
| alt Label = [[Rolling Stones Records]] |
| released = {{Start date|1971|4|23|df=y}}
Producer = Jimmy Miller |
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Reviews = <ul><li>''[[All Music Guide]]'' [[Image:5 out of 5.png]] [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Abe3ibkj96akc link]
* 22–31 March 1969
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* 2–4 December 1969
Last album = ''[[Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!]]''<br />([[1970]]) |
* 17 February – 31 October 1970
This album = '''''Sticky Fingers'''''<br />([[1971]]) |
| studio =
Next album = ''[[Exile on Main St.]]''<br />([[1972]]) |}}
* [[Muscle Shoals Sound Studio|Muscle Shoals Sound]] (Alabama)
* [[Olympic Studios|Olympic]] and [[Trident Studios|Trident]] (London)
* [[Stargroves]] (Newbury)
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| length = {{Duration|m=46|s=25}}
| label = [[Rolling Stones Records|Rolling Stones]]
| producer = [[Jimmy Miller]]
| prev_title = [[Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert]]
| prev_year = 1970
| next_title = [[Exile on Main St.]]
| next_year = 1972
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| header = Spanish issue
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{{Singles
| name = Sticky Fingers
| type = studio
| single1 = [[Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones song)|Brown Sugar]]" / "[[Bitch (Rolling Stones song)|Bitch]]
| single1date = 16 April 1971
| single2 = [[Wild Horses (Rolling Stones song)|Wild Horses]]" / "[[Sway (Rolling Stones song)|Sway]]
| single2date = 12 June 1971
}}
}}
 
'''''Sticky Fingers''''' is anthe ninth studio [[album]] by the English rock band [[Thethe Rolling Stones]]. It was released on 23 April, [[1971]]. The band's first studio album for over a year, it was alsoon the firstRolling onStones' its own recordnew label, [[Rolling Stones Records, and its first full album with guitarist [[Mick Taylor]] as a member. Like many of the Rolling Stones' albums, it was a compilation of tracks written and recorded over several years.
 
The Rolling Stones had been contracted by [[Decca Records]] and [[London Records]] in the UK and the US since 1963. On this album, [[Mick Taylor]] made his second full-length appearance on a Rolling Stones album (after the live album ''[[Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert|Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!]]''). It was the first studio album without [[Brian Jones]], who had died two years earlier. The original [[Grammy Awards|Grammy]]-nominated cover artwork, conceived and photographed by [[Andy Warhol]], showed a picture of a man in tight jeans, and had a working [[Zipper|zip]] that opened to reveal underwear fabric. The cover was expensive to produce and damaged the vinyl record, so the size of the zipper adjustment was made by [[John Kosh]] at [[ABKCO Records]]. Later re-issues featured just the outer photograph of the jeans.
The Rolling Stones lineup was [[Mick Jagger]], [[Keith Richards]] (known as "Keith Richard" at that time), [[Mick Taylor]], [[Charlie Watts]] and [[Bill Wyman]]. Other musicians on the album include keyboard players [[Billy Preston]], [[Nicky Hopkins]] and [[Ian 'Stu' Stewart]], sax player [[Bobby Keys]] and guitarist [[Ry Cooder]].
 
The album featured a return to basics for the Rolling Stones. The unusual instrumentation introduced several albums prior was absent, with most songs featuring drums, guitar, bass, and percussion as provided by the key members: [[Mick Jagger]] (lead vocals, various percussion and rhythm guitar), [[Keith Richards]] (guitar and backing vocals), [[Mick Taylor]] (guitar), [[Bill Wyman]] (bass guitar), and [[Charlie Watts]] (drums). Additional contributions were made by long-time Stones collaborators including saxophonist [[Bobby Keys]] and keyboardists [[Billy Preston]], [[Jack Nitzsche]], [[Ian Stewart (musician)|Ian Stewart]], and [[Nicky Hopkins]]. As with the other albums of the Rolling Stones late 1960s/early 1970s period, it was produced by [[Jimmy Miller]].
The album cover was designed by [[Andy Warhol]]; the original LP version had a real zip on the pants. The photo is supposedly of Warhol 'superstar' [[Joe Dallesandro]]. Note that Warhol had nothing to do with the design of the Rolling Stones Records tongue logo, which has now become synonymous with the Stones themselves.
 
''Sticky Fingers'' is widely regarded as one of the Rolling Stones' best albums. It was the band's first album to reach number one on both the UK albums and US albums charts, and has since achieved [[RIAA certification|triple platinum]] certification in the US. "[[Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones song)|Brown Sugar]]" topped the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1971. ''Sticky Fingers'' was voted the second best album of the year in ''[[The Village Voice]]''{{'}}s annual [[Pazz & Jop]] critics poll for 1971, based on American critics' votes. The album was inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame]] and included in ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's "[[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]" list.
''Brown Sugar'', backed with ''Bitch'' and in some countries a live version of [[Chuck Berry]]'s ''Let It Rock'' (recorded in Leeds in March 1971), was released as a single. In the USA a second single, coupling ''Wild Horses'' and ''Sway'', was also released.
 
==Background==
''Sticky Fingers'' remains one of the band's most successful albums, reaching number 1 in both the UK and US. It is estimated to have sold 6 million copies worldwide through [[2000]].
With the end of their Decca/London association at hand, the Rolling Stones were finally free to release their albums (including cover art) as they pleased. However, their departing manager [[Allen Klein]] dealt the group a major blow when they discovered that they had inadvertently signed over their entire 1960s American copyrights to Klein and his company [[ABKCO Records|ABKCO]], which is how all of their material from 1963's "[[Come On (Chuck Berry song)|Come On]]" to ''[[Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert]]'' has since been released solely in America by ABKCO Records.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=McMillian|first=John|date=17 December 2013|title=You Never Give Me Your Money: How Allen Klein Played The Beatles and The Stones|url=https://www.newsweek.com/sympathy-devil-how-alan-klein-played-beatles-and-stones-224703|access-date=23 December 2020|website=Newsweek|language=en|archive-date=3 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203112532/https://www.newsweek.com/sympathy-devil-how-alan-klein-played-beatles-and-stones-224703|url-status=live}}</ref> The band later sued for their return but without success, settling in 1984.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> The band would remain incensed with Klein for decades for that act. Klein died in 2009.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|last=Sisario|first=Ben|date=5 July 2009|title=Allen Klein, 77, Dies; Managed Music Legends (Published 2009)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/arts/music/05klein.html|access-date=23 December 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=30 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171030094525/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/arts/music/05klein.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
When Decca informed the Rolling Stones that they were owed one more single, the band submitted a track called "Cocksucker Blues",<ref>Sanchez, Tony (1996). ''Up and Down with the Rolling Stones'', p. 195. Da Capo Press. {{ISBN|0-306-80711-4}}.</ref> correctly assuming that this would be refused. Instead, Decca released the two-year-old ''[[Beggars Banquet]]'' track "[[Street Fighting Man]]" while Klein retained dual copyright ownership in conjunction with the Rolling Stones of "[[Brown Sugar (The Rolling Stones song)|Brown Sugar]]" and "[[Wild Horses (The Rolling Stones song)|Wild Horses]]".
In [[2003]] the [[TV network]] [[VH1]] named ''Sticky Fingers'' the 46th greatest album of all time.
 
===Recording===
== Track listing and details ==
Although sessions for ''Sticky Fingers'' began in earnest in March 1970, the Rolling Stones had been recording at [[Muscle Shoals Sound Studio]] in [[Alabama]] in December 1969, where they cut "[[You Gotta Move (song)|You Gotta Move]]", "[[Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones song)|Brown Sugar]]" and "[[Wild Horses (Rolling Stones song)|Wild Horses]]". "[[Sister Morphine]]", cut during ''[[Let It Bleed]]'''s sessions earlier in March of that year, had been held over from that release. Much of the recording for ''Sticky Fingers'' was made with the [[Rolling Stones Mobile Studio|Rolling Stones' mobile studio]] in [[Stargroves]] during the summer and autumn of 1970. Early versions of songs that would eventually appear on ''[[Exile on Main St.]]'' were also rehearsed during these sessions.<ref>Greenfield, Robert (2006). ''Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones'', pp. 95–96. Da Capo Press. {{ISBN|0-306-81433-1}}.</ref>
 
== Music and lyrics ==
# "Brown Sugar" (Jagger/Richards) - 3:49
''Sticky Fingers'' originally included 10 tracks. The music has been characterised by commentators as [[hard rock]],<ref name="Gramophone">{{cite journal|journal=[[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]] |___location=London |date=July 1971|title=The Pick|page=245|volume=49|quote=The music is hard rock and a reversion to this group's earlier days prior to their "Beggars' Banquet" album, which is about the most imaginative LP they have achieved.|last=Gilman|first=William}}</ref> [[roots rock]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bridges |first1=Rose |title=Yoko Kanno's Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack |date=2017 |publisher=Bloomsbury |chapter=3}}</ref> and [[rock and roll]].<ref name=":2">{{cite web|last1=Hamilton|first1=Jack|title=After Altamont|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2015/06/sticky_fingers_by_the_rolling_stones_one_of_the_greatest_albums_in_rock.html|date=10 June 2015|website=[[Slate Magazine]]|access-date=26 February 2018|archive-date=26 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180226152400/http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2015/06/sticky_fingers_by_the_rolling_stones_one_of_the_greatest_albums_in_rock.html|url-status=live}}</ref> According to ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine, it is "the Stones' most [[downbeat and upbeat|downbeat]], [[narcotics|druggy]] album, with new guitarist Mick Taylor stretching into [[jazz]] and [[country music|country]]".<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=17 August 2012|title=Rolling Stones Album Guide: The Good, the Great and the 'Angie'|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/rolling-stones-album-guide-the-good-the-great-and-the-angie-160209/|access-date=27 December 2020|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US|archive-date=16 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116035415/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/rolling-stones-album-guide-the-good-the-great-and-the-angie-160209/|url-status=live}}</ref>
# "Sway" (Jagger/Richards) - 3:51
# "Wild Horses" (Jagger/Richards) - 5:42
# "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" (Jagger/Richards) - 7:14
# "You Gotta Move" (Davis/McDowell) - 2:32
# "Bitch" (Jagger/Richards) - 3:36
# "I Got The Blues" (Jagger/Richards) - 3:52
# "Sister Morphine" (Faithfull/Jagger/Richards) - 5:31
# "Dead Flowers" (Jagger/Richards) - 4:03
# "Moonlight Mile" (Jagger/Richards) - 5:56
 
==Artwork==
===Standard version===
[[File:Rolling Stones 1971.jpg|alt=|thumb|The Rolling Stones posing in an ad with covers of ''Sticky Fingers'', with the original artwork, in 1971. Left to right: Charlie Watts, Mick Taylor, Bill Wyman, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger]]
The artwork emphasized the [[Double entendre|innuendo]] of the ''Sticky Fingers'' title, showing a close-up of a jeans-clad male [[crotch]] with the visible outline of a penis. The cover of the original vinyl [[LP album|LP]] featured a working [[zipper]] and perforations around the belt buckle that opened to reveal a sub-cover image of white [[briefs]]. The vinyl release displayed the band's name and album title along the belt; behind the zipper, the underpants were seemingly rubber stamped in gold with the stylized name of American pop artist [[Andy Warhol]], below which read "THIS PHOTOGRAPH MAY NOT BE—ETC." The artwork was conceived and photographed by Warhol, and the design by [[Craig Braun]]. [[Billy Name]] is sometimes accredited as the photographer, however, Braun believes Warhol shot the Polaroid photos for the album, and the Factory associates who were involved in the photo shoot have claimed that Warhol took the photos.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Fairclough |first=Steve |date=2021-12-30 |title=Greatest album photography: Sticky Fingers by the Rolling Stones |url=https://amateurphotographer.com/iconic-images/greatest-album-photography-sticky-fingers-by-the-rolling-stones/ |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=Amateur Photographer |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=Getlen |first=Larry |date=2015-06-06 |title=So about that Rolling Stones' cover: Whose crotch is it anyway? |url=https://nypost.com/2015/06/06/so-about-that-rolling-stones-cover-whose-crotch-is-it-anyway/ |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=New York Post |language=en-US}}</ref> Braun and his team suggested wrapping the album in [[rolling paper]] – a concept later used by [[Cheech & Chong]] in ''[[Big Bambu]]'' – but Jagger was enthused by Warhol's concept. Warhol duly sent Braun [[Polaroid camera|Polaroid]] pictures of a model in tight jeans.<ref name=tongue/>
 
{{blockquote|text=We manufactured those kind of one-off packages, because a lot of conventional record suppliers were a bit baffled as to how to make them. I'd already done a few of them for bands like [[Together (The Supremes and the Temptations album)|The Temptations, The Supremes]], [[Mad Dogs & Englishmen (album)|Joe Cocker]] and a teen idol named [[Bobby Sherman]], where a band would be selling in sufficient quantities – maybe a million-plus – to have a custom-made sleeve. So when there was a big act like the Stones, you knew the initial release would be a million-plus, and a custom package could be made without costing the label too much of a premium. So the Stones' managers came to me and asked what I could do. |author=Craig Braun<ref>{{cite journal|title= Sleevenotes: the story behind a classic album cover |journal= [[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]] |issue= 117 |date= April 2008 |page= 18}}</ref>}}
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'''Sticky Fingers''' is also the name of a [[restaurant]] in [[London]] owned by Bill Wyman.
Fans assumed the cover photo of the crotch to be Jagger, but he revealed that it was one of Warhol's "protégés."<ref name=":7">{{Cite book |last=Fornatale |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bGUQJcjjIRsC&pg=PA134 |title=50 Licks: Myths and Stories from Half a Century of the Rolling Stones |date=2013-02-26 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-60819-922-8 |pages=134 |language=en}}</ref> Jagger said it was [[Jay Johnson (model)|Jay Johnson]],<ref name=":8">{{Cite book |last=Thorgerson |first=Storm |url=https://archive.org/details/100bestalbumcove0000thor/mode/2up?q=jed+johnson |title=100 Best Album Covers: [The Stories Behind the Sleeves] |date=1999 |publisher=London; New York: DK Pub. |isbn=978-0-7894-4951-1 |pages=138}}</ref> but the general consensus is that Warhol used his lover [[Jed Johnson (designer)|Jed Johnson]] as the model for the cover.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Greenberg |first1=Jan |url=https://archive.org/details/andywarholprince00jang/page/124/mode/2up?q=jed |title=Andy Warhol: Prince of Pop |last2=Jordan |first2=Sandra |date=2007 |publisher=Laurel Leaf |isbn=978-0-385-73275-8 |___location=New York |pages=126}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Miles |first=Barry |url=https://archive.org/details/rollingstonesvis0000mile/page/64/mode/2up?q=jed+johnson |title=The Rolling Stones: A Visual Documentary |date=1994 |publisher=London; New York: Omnibus; New York: Exclusive distributor, Music Sales Corp. |isbn=978-0-7119-3460-3 |pages=64}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Cite book |last=Bockris |first=Victor |url=https://archive.org/details/warhol0000bock_c2k2/mode/2up?q=sticky+fingers |title=Warhol |date=1997 |publisher=Da Capo Press |isbn=978-0-306-80795-4 |___location=New York |pages=346}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Wyman |first=Bill |url=https://archive.org/details/rollingwithstone0000wyma/mode/2up?q=jed+johnson |title=Rolling with the Stones |date=2002 |publisher=DK Pub. |isbn=978-0-7894-8967-8 |___location=New York |pages=381}}</ref> It remains uncertain exactly who appears on the cover because Warhol photographed several men and never publicly revealed which photos he used.<ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Wrbican |first=Matt |url= |title=A is for Archive: Warhol's world from A to Z |date=2019 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-23344-5 |___location=New Haven; Pittsburgh |pages=155}}</ref><ref name=":9" /> Braum thought it was Jed Johnson on the cover, but he later said Warhol's business manager [[Frederick W. Hughes|Fred Hughes]] told him it was makeup artist Corey Tippin.<ref name=":7" /><ref name=":3" /> Tippin is convinced that it's him and said, "I know my anatomy."<ref name=":4" /> [[Warhol superstars|Warhol superstar]] [[Joe Dallesandro]] also claimed that he's the model on the cover, but Braum is sure it was not him.<ref name=":7" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.joedallesandro.com/album.htm |title=Album Cover Joe |publisher=Joedallesandro.com |access-date=12 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713111951/http://www.joedallesandro.com/album.htm |archive-date=13 July 2011}}</ref>
 
Former ''[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]'' magazine editor [[Bob Colacello]] said, "When the album came out, [[Glenn O'Brien|Glenn [O'Brein]]] was certain that it was he on the inside and Jay Johnson on the outside, but Andy would never say exactly whose crotch he had immortalized."<ref name=":6">{{Cite book |last=Colacello |first=Bob |url=https://archive.org/details/holyterrorandywa0000cola_a4e9/page/56/mode/2up?q=sticky |title=Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up |date=1990 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0-06-016419-5 |___location=New York, NY |pages=57}}</ref> O'Brien, who was an editor for Warhol's ''Interview'' magazine, was "100 percent certain" he was the underwear model: "I knew it was me because it was my underwear!"<ref name=":4" /> O'Brien initially stated that Jed Johnson was the model for the cover, but he later claimed that it was Tippin.<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":4" /> He added that Warhol might not even have known who he selected. "He probably took these Polaroids, put them on the table, and picked ones he liked. I don't think it mattered to him [who it was]," said O'Brien.<ref name=":4" />
 
For the initial vinyl release, the album title and band name is smaller and at the top on the American release. For the UK release, the title and band name are in bigger letters and on the left. Reportedly, when retailers complained that the zipper damaged the vinyl (from stacked shipments), the zipper was "unzipped" slightly to the middle of the record, where damage would be minimized.<ref name=tongue/>
 
''Sticky Fingers'' earned a Grammy nomination for [[Grammy Award for Best Recording Package|Best Album Cover]] at the [[14th Annual Grammy Awards]] in 1972.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Leogrande |first=Ernest |date=March 14, 1972 |title=The Trade Prizes Prize For Record Jacket Art |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-sticky-fingers-by-the-rolling/160778907/ |work=Daily News |___location=New York |pages=57}}</ref>
 
The album introduced the [[tongue and lips logo]] of Rolling Stones Records, designed by [[John Pasche]] in 1970. Jagger suggested to Pasche that he copy the out-stuck tongue of the [[Hindu]] goddess [[Kali]]. Pasche felt that would date the image to the Indian culture craze of the 1960s, but seeing Kali changed his mind. Before the end of that year, his basic version was faxed to Craig Braun by [[Marshall Chess]]. The black and white copy was modified by Braun and his team, resulting in the popular red version: the slim one with the two white stripes on the tongue.<ref name=tongue>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/arts/music/art-of-the-rolling-stones-behind-that-zipper-and-that-tongue.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share|title=Art of The Rolling Stones: Behind that zipper and that tongue|work=The New York Times|date=7 June 2015 |access-date=11 June 2015|archive-date=10 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610181948/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/arts/music/art-of-the-rolling-stones-behind-that-zipper-and-that-tongue.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Critic Sean Egan wrote: "Without using the Stones' name, it instantly conjures them, or at least Jagger, as well as a certain lasciviousness that is the Stones' own… It quickly and deservedly became the most famous logo in the history of popular music."<ref>{{cite book|last=Egan|first=Sean|title=The Mammoth Book of the Rolling Stones: An anthology of the best writing about the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XmOeBAAAQBAJ|date=20 June 2013|pages=187|publisher=Little, Brown Book Group|isbn=978-1-78033-647-3}}</ref> The tongue and lips design was part of a package that, in 2003, [[VH1]] named the "No. 1 Greatest Album Cover" of all time.<ref name="Goldstein">{{cite web|last=Goldstein|first=Mike|title=UnCovered Interview – The Rolling Stones Lips & Tongue logo, with designs by Ernie Cefalu|url=http://rockpopgallery.typepad.com/rockpop_gallery_news/2009/07/uncovered-interview-part-2-rolling-stones-lips-logo-by-ernie-cefalu.html|publisher=RockPoP Gallery|access-date=22 November 2014|archive-date=29 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129025120/http://rockpopgallery.typepad.com/rockpop_gallery_news/2009/07/uncovered-interview-part-2-rolling-stones-lips-logo-by-ernie-cefalu.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
===Alternative version and covers===
In Spain, the original cover was censored by the [[Franco regime]] and replaced with a "Can of fingers" cover, designed by John Pasche and Phil Jude,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rollingstones.com/2015/05/12/rare-spanish-version-of-sticky-fingers-to-be-reissued-on-vinyl/ |title=Rare Spanish version of Sticky Fingers to be reissued on vinyl |publisher=Rollingstones.com |access-date=19 June 2015 |archive-date=26 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160326143006/http://www.rollingstones.com/2015/05/12/rare-spanish-version-of-sticky-fingers-to-be-reissued-on-vinyl/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and "Sister Morphine" was replaced by a live version of Chuck Berry's "[[Let It Rock (Chuck Berry song)|Let It Rock]]".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rolling Stones – Spanish 1st Pressing "Sticky Fingers" LP With Alternate Cover|url=https://recordmecca.com/item-archives/rolling-stones-spanish-1st-pressing-sticky-fingers-lp-with-alternate-cover/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120629/https://recordmecca.com/item-archives/rolling-stones-spanish-1st-pressing-sticky-fingers-lp-with-alternate-cover/|archive-date=24 December 2020|access-date=24 December 2020|website=Recordmecca|date=5 February 2015 |language=en-US}}</ref> This track was later included on the CD compilation ''[[Rarities 1971–2003]]'' in 2005.
 
In 1992, the LP release of the album in Russia featured a similar treatment as the original cover; but with [[Cyrillic]] lettering for the band name and album name, a colourised photograph of blue jeans with a zipper, and a [[Soviet Army]] uniform belt buckle that shows a [[hammer and sickle]] inscribed in a star. The model appears to be female.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dustandgrooves.com/dj-db-aka-db-burkeman-brooklyn-ny/ |title=Dust & Grooves – Adventures in Record Collecting. A book about vinyl records collectors » DB Burkeman – Brooklyn, NY |date=25 January 2011 |publisher=Dustandgrooves.com |access-date=10 June 2015 |archive-date=18 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318123754/http://www.dustandgrooves.com/dj-db-aka-db-burkeman-brooklyn-ny/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
==Release and reception==
{{Music ratings
| MC = 100/100<br />{{small|(deluxe edition)}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/sticky-fingers-deluxe-edition/the-rolling-stones |title=Sticky Fingers [Deluxe Edition] by The Rolling Stones Reviews and Tracks |website=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=5 September 2021}}</ref>
| subtitle = Retrospective reviews
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |first=Stephen Thomas |last=Erlewine |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/sticky-fingers-mw0000195498 |title=''Sticky Fingers'' – The Rolling Stones |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=10 June 2015 |archive-date=1 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130701075636/http://www.allmusic.com/album/sticky-fingers-mw0000195498 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
|rev2score = A<ref name="Christgau"/>
|rev3 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
|rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Larkin |editor1-first=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2007 |publisher=Omnibus |page=1197 |edition=5th concise |ol=11913831M}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock]]''
|rev4Score = 4.5/5<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Graff |editor1-first=Gary |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1996 |publisher=Visible Ink |___location=Detroit |page=573 |ol=8145585M}}</ref>
|rev5 = ''[[NME]]''
|rev5Score = 9/10<ref name="NME">{{cite journal|title=Review: Sticky Fingers|journal=[[NME]]|___location=London|page=43|date=9 July 1994}}</ref>
|rev6 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
|rev6Score = 10/10<ref name="Pitchfork review">{{cite web | url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20483-sticky-fingers/ | title=The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers | publisher=[[Pitchfork Media]] | date=19 June 2015 | access-date=2 July 2015 | archive-date=2 July 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702084410/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20483-sticky-fingers/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
|rev7 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
|rev7Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="muze"/>
|rev8 = ''[[Record Collector]]''
|rev8Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="muze"/>
|rev9 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev9Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name=RS2004>{{Cite book |chapter=The Rolling Stones |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/695 695–699] |first=Tom |last=Moon |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |title=[[The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]] |year=2004 |publisher=Fireside |___location=London |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 }} Portions posted at {{cite web |work=[[rollingstone.com]] |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-rolling-stones/albumguide |title=The Rolling Stones > Album Guide |access-date=2 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110412195111/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-rolling-stones/albumguide |archive-date=12 April 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|rev10 = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''
|rev10Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cavanagh|first=David|url=http://www.uncut.co.uk/the-rolling-stones/album-reviews-the-rolling-stones-reissues-review|title=Album Reviews: The Rolling Stones Reissues|journal=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]|___location=London|access-date=11 July 2013|archive-date=2 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202172242/http://www.uncut.co.uk/the-rolling-stones/album-reviews-the-rolling-stones-reissues-review|url-status=live}}</ref>
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''Sticky Fingers'' was released on 23 April 1971<ref name="BBCchrisjones">{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Chris |date=2007 |title=BBC – Music – Review of The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/4pzf/ |access-date=23 December 2020 |website=BBC |language=en-GB |archive-date=2 December 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201202041930/http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/4pzf/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and reached number one on the [[UK Albums Chart]] in May 1971, remaining there for four weeks before returning at number one for a further week in mid June. In the US, the album hit number one within days of release, and stayed there for four weeks. The album spent a total of 69 weeks on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=The Rolling Stones|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/the-rolling-stones/chart-history/tlp/|access-date=23 December 2020|magazine=Billboard|archive-date=9 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809203228/https://www.billboard.com/music/The-Rolling-Stones/chart-history/TLP/song/180725|url-status=live}}</ref> According to ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''{{'}}s Top 200 list, it was one of the albums that topped the German chart that year.
 
In a contemporary review for the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', music critic [[Robert Hilburn]] said that although ''Sticky Fingers'' is one of the best rock albums of the year, it is only "modest" by the Rolling Stones' standards and succeeds on the strength of songs such as "Bitch" and "Dead Flowers", which recall the band's previously uninhibited, furious style.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hilburn|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Hilburn|date=9 May 1971|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/642916892.html?dids=642916892:642916892&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=May+09%2C+1971&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=The+Survival+of+%27Sticky+Fingers%27&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130712035537/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/642916892.html?dids=642916892:642916892&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=May+09,+1971&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=The+Survival+of+'Sticky+Fingers'&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 July 2013|title=The Survival of 'Sticky Fingers'|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|page=Q37|access-date=11 July 2013}}{{subscription required}}</ref> [[Jon Landau]], writing in ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', felt that it lacks the spirit and spontaneity of the Rolling Stones' previous two albums and, apart from "Moonlight Mile", is full of "forced attempts at style and control" in which the band sounds disinterested, particularly on formally correct songs such as "Brown Sugar".<ref name="Landau">{{cite magazine|last=Landau|first=Jon|author-link=Jon Landau|date=23 April 1971|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/sticky-fingers-19710610|title=Sticky Fingers|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|___location=New York|access-date=11 July 2013|archive-date=24 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224211233/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/sticky-fingers-19710610|url-status=live}}</ref> Writing for ''Rolling Stone'' in 2015, David Fricke called it "an eclectic affirmation of maturing depth" and the band's "sayonara to a messy 1969".<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Fricke|first=David|date=2015-06-09|title=The Rolling Stones 'Sticky Fingers: Deluxe Edition' Review|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/sticky-fingers-deluxe-edition-205497/|access-date=2021-04-12|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}}</ref> In a positive review, Lynn Van Matre of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' viewed the album as the band "at their raunchy best" and wrote that, although it is "hardly innovative," it is consistent enough to be one of the year's best albums.<ref>{{cite news|last=Van Matre|first=Lynn|date=30 April 1971|at=section 2, p. B12|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/599053902.html?dids=599053902:599053902&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Apr+30%2C+1971&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=%27Stones%27+at+their+raunchy+best&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130712035554/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/599053902.html?dids=599053902:599053902&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Apr+30,+1971&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc='Stones'+at+their+raunchy+best&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 July 2013|title='Stones' at their raunchy best|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|access-date=11 July 2013}}{{subscription required}}</ref> Writing for [[Slate (magazine)|''Slate'']], Jack Hamilton praised the album in a retrospective review, stating that it was "one of the greatest albums in rock 'n' roll history."<ref name=":2" />
 
''Sticky Fingers'' was voted the second best album of the year in ''[[The Village Voice]]''{{'}}s annual [[Pazz & Jop]] critics poll for 1971.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Village Voice]]|___location=New York|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres71.php|date=10 February 1972|title=The 1971 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll|access-date=11 July 2013|archive-date=9 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130709105538/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres71.php|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Lester Bangs]] voted it number one in the poll and said that it was his most played album of the year.<ref>{{cite news|date=17 February 1972|title=Pazz & Jop Critics Poll: What Does It All Mean?|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pj71.php|access-date=11 July 2013|last=Christgau|first=Robert|newspaper=The Village Voice|___location=New York|archive-date=14 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200914143620/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pj71.php|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Robert Christgau]], the poll's creator, ranked the album 17th on his own year-end list.<ref>{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|date=10 February 1972|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/deans71.php|title=Pazz & Jop 1971: Dean's List|newspaper=The Village Voice|___location=New York|access-date=11 July 2013|archive-date=15 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130815183243/http://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/deans71.php|url-status=live}}</ref> In a 1975 article for ''The Village Voice'', Christgau suggested that the release was "triffling with decadence", but might be the Rolling Stones' best album, approached only by ''[[Exile on Main St.]]'' (1972).<ref>{{cite news|date=30 June 1975|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rock/stones-75.php|title=It Isn't Only Rock and Roll|newspaper=The Village Voice|___location=New York|access-date=11 July 2013|archive-date=16 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130816234300/http://robertchristgau.com/xg/rock/stones-75.php|url-status=live}}</ref> In ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]'' (1981), he wrote that it reflected how unapologetic the band was after the [[Altamont Free Concert]] and that, despite the concession to sincerity with "Wild Horses", songs such as "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" and "I Got the Blues" are as "soulful" as "[[Good Times (Sam Cooke song)|Good Times]]", and their cover of "You Gotta Move" is on-par with their previous covers of "Prodigal Son" and "[[Love in Vain]]".<ref name="Christgau">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|page=[https://archive.org/details/christgausrecord00robe_1/page/329 329]|isbn=0899190251|url=https://archive.org/details/christgausrecord00robe_1/page/329}}</ref>
 
=== Re-releases ===
In 1994, ''Sticky Fingers'' was remastered and reissued by [[Virgin Records]]. This remaster was initially released in a Collector's Edition CD, which replicated in miniature many elements of the original vinyl album packaging, including the zipper. ''Sticky Fingers'' was remastered again in 2009 by [[Universal Music Enterprises]] and in 2011 by Universal Music Enterprises in a Japanese-only SHM-[[Super Audio CD|SACD]] version; the latter was also used in 2013 for SHM-CD and Platinum SHM-CD, and then again in 2020 for another Japanese-only (standard) SHM-CD version.
 
In June 2015, the Rolling Stones reissued ''Sticky Fingers'' in its 2009 remastering in a variety of formats to coincide with a concert tour, the [[Zip Code Tour]]. The Deluxe and Super Deluxe versions of the reissue featured previously unreleased bonus material (depending on the format): alternative takes of some songs, live tracks recorded on 14 March 1971 at the [[Roundhouse (venue)|Roundhouse]] in London and the complete 13 March 1971 show at [[Leeds]] [[University of Leeds|University]]. It re-entered the UK Albums chart at number 7, extending their UK Top 10 album chart span beyond 51 years and 2 months since [[The Rolling Stones (album)|their self-titled]] debuted at number 7 on 23 April 1964.<ref name="The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers lives again">{{cite web|date=31 March 2015|title=The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers lives again!|url=http://www.rollingstones.com/2015/03/31/the-rolling-stones-sticky-fingers-lives-again|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150410074321/http://www.rollingstones.com/2015/03/31/the-rolling-stones-sticky-fingers-lives-again/|archive-date=10 April 2015|access-date=9 April 2015|website=www.rollingstones.com}}</ref><ref name="The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers Rerelease June 2015">{{cite web|date=9 April 2015|title=Sticky Fingers Rerelease: Out 8/9 June|url=http://www.rollingstones.com/2015/04/09/sticky-fingers-rerelease-out-89-june|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725015903/http://www.rollingstones.com/2015/04/09/sticky-fingers-rerelease-out-89-june/|archive-date=25 July 2015|access-date=9 April 2015|website=www.rollingstones.com}}</ref><ref name="The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers Rerelease">{{cite web|date=April 2015|title=The Rolling Stones are rereleasing their classic 1971 album Sticky Fingers, along with previously unreleased material and alternative re-workings of beloved album tracks. |url=http://www.rollingstones.com/splash-page-row|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414021634/http://www.rollingstones.com/splash-page-row/ |archive-date=14 April 2015|access-date=9 April 2015|website=www.rollingstones.com}}</ref><ref name="The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers Details">{{cite web|date=April 2015 |title=The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers|url=http://www.rollingstones.com/stickyfingers|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150410052836/http://www.rollingstones.com/stickyfingers/|archive-date=10 April 2015|access-date=9 April 2015 |website=www.rollingstones.com}}</ref> It also re-entered the US Albums chart at number 5, extending their US Top 10 album chart span beyond 50 years and 6 months since ''[[12 x 5]]'' on 14 December 1964.<ref name="The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers lives again" /><ref name="The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers Rerelease June 2015" /><ref name="The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers Rerelease" /><ref name="The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers Details" />
 
== Legacy ==
''Sticky Fingers'' was ranked number ten in the 1994 first edition of [[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]'s ''[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]''. He stated, "Dirty rock like this has still to be bettered, and there is still no rival in sight."<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|title=Guinness Book of Top 1000 Albums|publisher=Gullane Children's Books|year=1994|isbn=978-0-85112-786-6|edition=1|page=10|author-link=Colin Larkin (writer)}}</ref> In a retrospective review, ''[[Q magazine|Q]]'' magazine said that the album was "the Stones at their assured, showboating peak&nbsp;... A magic formula of heavy soul, junkie blues and macho rock."<ref name="muze">{{cite web|title=Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers CD Album|url=http://www.rakuten.com/prod/sticky-fingers/60075015.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426215050/http://www.rakuten.com/prod/sticky-fingers/60075015.html|archive-date=26 April 2014|access-date=21 June 2013|publisher=[[Rakuten.com]]. [[Muze]]}}</ref> ''[[NME]]'' wrote that it "captures the Stones bluesy swagger" in a "dark-land where few dare to tread."<ref name="NME" /> ''[[Record Collector]]'' magazine said that it showcases Jagger and Richards as they "delve even further back to the primitive blues that first inspired them and step up their investigations into another great American form, country."<ref name="muze" /> In his review for ''[[Goldmine (magazine)|Goldmine]]'' magazine, [[Dave Thompson (author)|Dave Thompson]] wrote that the album still is superior to "most of The Rolling Stones' catalog."<ref name="Thompson">{{cite journal|last=Thompson|first=Dave|author-link=Dave Thompson (author)|date=9 May 2011|title=True 5-Star Albums: Rolling Stones' 'Sticky Fingers'|url=http://www.goldminemag.com/article/true-5-star-albums-rolling-stones-sticky-fingers|url-status=live|journal=[[Goldmine (magazine)|Goldmine]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426215207/http://www.goldminemag.com/article/true-5-star-albums-rolling-stones-sticky-fingers|archive-date=26 April 2014|access-date=11 July 2013}}</ref> In a 2018 retrospective review, ''[[The Guardian]]''<nowiki/>'s [[Alexis Petridis]] ranked it the best album the band had ever produced, stating "their claim to be The Greatest Rock’n’Roll Band in the World has no more compelling evidence than the flawless 46 minutes of music here."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Petridis|first=Alexis|date=17 May 2018|title=The Rolling Stones – every album ranked!|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/17/the-rolling-stones-every-album-ranked|access-date=23 December 2020|website=The Guardian|language=en|archive-date=10 December 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201210185959/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/17/the-rolling-stones-every-album-ranked|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
[[David Hepworth]] wrote in his 2016 book ''Never a Dull Moment'' that the contributions of guest performers such as Keys, [[Jim Dickinson]], and Preston gave the album "more musical range than any other Rolling Stones album," including "Dickinson's honky-tonk piano on 'Wild Horses'" and "Preston's churchy organ solo on 'I Got the Blues{{' "}}.<ref name="Hepworth" /> Hepworth also suggested that Taylor's "Latin-flavored guitar solo" on "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" was influenced by [[Santana (band)|Santana]]'s 1970 album ''[[Abraxas (album)|Abraxas]]''.<ref name="Hepworth">{{cite book|last=Hepworth|first=David|title=Never a Dull Moment: 1971 – The Year That Rock Exploded|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k3_tCgAAQBAJ|place=New York|publisher=Henry Holt and Company|year=2016|page=111|isbn=9781627793995|access-date=8 October 2019|archive-date=19 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819134047/https://books.google.com/books?id=k3_tCgAAQBAJ |url-status=live}}<!-- Is it really p. 111, or is it p. 135? --></ref>
 
''Sticky Fingers'' was inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame]] in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grammy Hall of Fame Award |url= https://www.grammy.com/awards/hall-of-fame-award |work=Grammy Awards |access-date=3 Jul 2024}}</ref> It was listed as No. 63 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's 2003 list of [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]],<ref>{{cite magazine|date=11 December 2003 |title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time|magazine=Rolling Stone|___location=New York|page=113}}</ref> No. 64 in a 2012 revised list,<ref>{{cite magazine |year=2012|title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/the-rolling-stones-sticky-fingers-162607/|url-status=live |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923104317/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/the-rolling-stones-sticky-fingers-162607/|archive-date=23 September 2019|access-date=23 September 2019}}</ref> and No. 104 in a 2020 reboot of the list.<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=Sticky Fingers ranked 104th greatest album by Rolling Stone magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/the-rolling-stones-sticky-fingers-2-1063129/|access-date=27 November 2020|magazine=Rolling Stone|archive-date=1 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001191023/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/the-rolling-stones-sticky-fingers-2-1063129/|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| all_writing = [[Jagger/Richards|Mick Jagger and Keith Richards]], except where noted
| headline = Side one
| title1 = [[Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones song)|Brown Sugar]]
| length1 = 3:48
| title2 = [[Sway (Rolling Stones song)|Sway]]
| length2 = 3:50
| title3 = [[Wild Horses (Rolling Stones song)|Wild Horses]]
| length3 = 5:42
| title4 = [[Can't You Hear Me Knocking]]
| length4 = 7:14
| title5 = [[You Gotta Move (song)#The Rolling Stones version|You Gotta Move]]
| writer5 = {{hlist|[[Fred McDowell]]|[[Rev. Gary Davis|Gary Davis]]}}
| length5 = 2:32
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| title6 = [[Bitch (Rolling Stones song)|Bitch]]
| length6 = 3:38
| title7 = [[I Got the Blues]]
| length7 = 3:54
| title8 = [[Sister Morphine]]
| writer8 = {{hlist|Jagger-Richards| [[Marianne Faithfull]]}}
| length8 = 5:31
| title9 = [[Dead Flowers (Rolling Stones song)|Dead Flowers]]
| length9 = 4:03
| title10 = [[Moonlight Mile (song)|Moonlight Mile]]
| length10 = 5:56
}}
 
===Deluxe edition (2015)===
{{Track listing
| headline = Disc two
| title1 = [[Brown Sugar (The Rolling Stones song)|Brown Sugar]]
| note1 = Alternate Version with [[Eric Clapton]]
| length1 = 4:07
| title2 = [[Wild Horses (The Rolling Stones song)|Wild Horses]]
| note2 = Acoustic version
| length2 = 5:47
| title3 = [[Can't You Hear Me Knocking]]
| note3 = Alternate version
| length3 = 3:24
| title4 = [[Bitch (The Rolling Stones song)|Bitch]]
| note4 = Extended version
| length4 = 5:53
| title5 = Dead Flowers
| note5 = Alternate version
| length5 = 4:18
| title6 = [[Live with Me]]
| note6 = Live at the Roundhouse, 1971
| length6 = 4:22
| title7 = [[Stray Cat Blues]]
| note7 = Live at the Roundhouse, 1971
| length7 = 3:38
| title8 = [[Love in Vain]]
| note8 = Live at the Roundhouse, 1971
| length8 = 6:42
| title9 = [[Midnight Rambler]]
| note9 = Live at the Roundhouse, 1971
| length9 = 11:27
| title10 = [[Honky Tonk Women]]
| note10 = Live at the Roundhouse, 1971
| length10 = 4:14
}}
 
===Super Deluxe edition (2015)===
{{Track listing
| headline = Disc three - Live at University of Leeds, 1971
| title1 = [[Jumpin' Jack Flash]]
| length1 = 3:59
| title2 = Live with Me
| length2 = 4:21
| title3 = Dead Flowers
| length3 = 4:02
| title4 = Stray Cat Blues
| length4 = 4:14
| title5 = Love in Vain
| length5 = 6:28
| title6 = Midnight Rambler
| length6 = 13:09
| title7 = Bitch
| length7 = 5:25
| title8 = Honky Tonk Women
| length8 = 3:20
| title9 = [[(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction]]
| length9 = 5:31
| title10 = Little Queenie
| length10 = 4:26
| title11 = Brown Sugar
| length11 = 4:44
| title12 = [[Street Fighting Man]]
| length12 = 4:52
| title13 = Let It Rock
| length13 = 3:14
}}
 
==Personnel==
* Track credits are noted in parentheses and based on CD numbering where the titles of the second side are numbered from 6 to 10.<ref>''Sticky Fingers'' CD</ref>
'''The Rolling Stones'''
* [[Mick Jagger]]{{snd}}lead vocals {{small|(all tracks)}}, acoustic guitar {{small|(9-10)}}, [[castanets]] {{small|(1)}}, [[maraca]]s {{small|(1)}}, electric guitar {{small|(2)}}
* [[Keith Richards]]{{snd}}electric guitar {{small|(1, 3–7, 9)}}, acoustic guitar {{small|(1, 3, 5, 8-9)}}, backing vocals {{small|(2–7, 9)}}
* [[Mick Taylor]]{{snd}}electric guitar {{small|(1-2, 4–7, 9-10)}}, acoustic guitar {{small|(3)}}
* [[Bill Wyman]]{{snd}}bass guitar {{small|(all but 5)}}, [[electric piano]] {{small|(5)}}
* [[Charlie Watts]]{{snd}}drums {{small|(all tracks)}}
 
'''Additional personnel'''
* [[Paul Buckmaster]]{{snd}}[[string arrangement]] {{small|(2, 10)}}
* [[Ry Cooder]]{{snd}}slide guitar {{small|(8)}}
* [[Jim Dickinson]]{{snd}}piano {{small|(3)}}
* [[Rocky Dzidzornu|Rocky Dijon]]{{snd}}[[conga]]s {{small|(4)}}
* [[Nicky Hopkins]]{{snd}}piano {{small|(2)}}
* [[Bobby Keys]] (credited as Bobby Keyes) {{snd}}tenor saxophone {{small|(1, 4, 6-7)}}
* [[Jimmy Miller]]{{snd}}percussion {{small|(4, 6)}}
* [[Jack Nitzsche]]{{snd}}piano {{small|(8)}}
* [[Billy Preston]]{{snd}}organ {{small|(4, 7)}}
* [[Jim Price (musician)|Jim Price]]{{snd}}trumpet {{small|(6-7)}}, piano {{small|(10)}}
* [[Ian Stewart (musician)|Ian Stewart]]{{snd}}piano {{small|(1, 9)}}
 
'''Technical'''
* Jimmy Miller {{snd}}producer
* [[Glyn Johns]]{{snd}}[[Audio engineering|engineer]]
* [[Andy Johns]]{{snd}}engineer
* [[Chris Kimsey]]{{snd}}engineer
* [[Jimmy Johnson (session guitarist)|Jimmy Johnson]]{{snd}}engineer
* [[Doug Sax]]{{snd}}mastering engineer
* [[Andy Warhol]]{{snd}}[[Album cover|cover concept]]/photography
* [[John Pasche]]{{snd}}cover concept (Spanish issue)
* Phil Jude{{snd}} photography (Spanish issue)
 
==Charts==
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===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+1971 weekly chart performance for ''Sticky Fingers''
! Chart (1971)
! Peak<br />position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian Albums ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=AUS>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|___location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}</ref>
| align="center"| 1
|-
! scope="row"| Belgian Albums (''[[HUMO]]'')<ref>{{cite magazine|date=4 September 1971|title=Hits of the World|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/70s/1971/Billboard%201971-09-04.pdf|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=4 February 2022|pages=44}}</ref>
| align="center"| 1
|-
{{Album chart|Canada|1|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Sticky Fingers|chartid=5187|rowheader=true|accessdate=22 December 2022}}
|-
{{Album chart|Netherlands|1|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Sticky Fingers|rowheader=true|accessdate=22 December 2022}}
|-
! scope="row"| Finland ([[The Official Finnish Charts]])<ref name=FINI>{{cite book|last=Pennanen|first=Timo|title=Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972|edition=1st|publisher=Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava|___location=Helsinki|year=2006|isbn=978-951-1-21053-5| language= fi}}</ref>
| align="center"| 1
|-
{{Album chart|Germany|1|id=10256|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Sticky Fingers|rowheader=true|accessdate=22 December 2022}}
|-
! scope="row"|Italian Albums (''[[Musica e Dischi]]'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicaedischi.it/classifiche_archivio.php|title=Classifiche|work=[[Musica e Dischi]]|language=it|access-date=27 May 2022}} Set "Tipo" on "Album". Then, in the "Artista" field, search "Rolling Stones".</ref>
| align="center"| 5
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!scope="row"|Japanese Albums ([[Oricon]])<ref name="JPN">{{cite book|title=Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005|publisher=[[Oricon|Oricon Entertainment]]|___location=Roppongi, Tokyo|year=2006|isbn=4-87131-077-9|language=ja}}</ref>
| align="center"| 9
|-
{{Album chart|Norway|1|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Let It Bleed|rowheader=true|accessdate=22 December 2022}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[Productores de Música de España|Spanish Albums Chart]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Salaverri|first=Fernando|title=Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002|edition=1st |date=September 2005|publisher=Fundación Autor-SGAE|___location=Spain|isbn=84-8048-639-2}}</ref>
| align="center"| 1
|-
!scope="row"|Swedish [[Sverigetopplistan|Kvällstoppen Chart]]<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.hitsallertijden.nl/charts/swedish%20charts/SwedishCharts%200969-0872.pdf|title= Swedish Charts 1969–1972 / Kvällstoppen – Listresultaten vecka för vecka > Maj 1971 > 18 Maj|language= sv|work= hitsallertijden.nl|access-date= 13 February 2014|archive-date= 14 October 2012|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121014071535/http://hitsallertijden.nl/charts/swedish%20charts/SwedishCharts%200969-0872.pdf|url-status= live}}'''Note''': [[Sverigetopplistan|Kvällstoppen]] combined sales for albums and singles in the one chart; ''Sticky Fingers'' peaked at the number-two on the list, behind "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" by Middle of the Road.</ref>
| align="center"| 1
|-
{{Album chart|UK|1|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Sticky Fingers|rowheader=true|accessdate=22 December 2022}}
|-
{{Album chart|Billboard200|1|artist=The Rolling Stones|rowheader=true|accessdate=22 December 2022}}
|}
 
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+2015 weekly chart performance for ''Sticky Fingers''
! Chart (2015)
! Peak<br/>position
|-
{{album chart|Australia|24|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Sticky Fingers|rowheader=true|access-date=12 June 2015}}
|-
{{album chart|Austria|9|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Sticky Fingers|rowheader=true|access-date=17 June 2015}}
|-
{{album chart|Flanders|7|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Sticky Fingers|rowheader=true|access-date=17 June 2015}}
|-
{{album chart|Czech|17|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Sticky Fingers|rowheader=true|access-date=12 June 2015}}
|-
{{album chart|France|11|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Sticky Fingers|rowheader=true|access-date=12 June 2015}}
|-
{{album chart|Germany|5|id=10256|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Sticky Fingers|rowheader=true|access-date=12 June 2015|refname=German1}}
|-
{{album chart|Greece|9|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Sticky Fingers|rowheader=true|access-date=12 June 2015}}
|-
{{album chart|Ireland2|6|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Sticky Fingers|rowheader=true|access-date=12 June 2015}}
|-
{{album chart|Italy|15|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Sticky Fingers|rowheader=true|access-date=18 June 2015}}
|-
{{album chart|Netherlands|2|artist=The Rolling Stones|refname=NET1|rowheader=true|album=Sticky Fingers|access-date=12 June 2015}}
|-
{{album chart|New Zealand|8|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Sticky Fingers|rowheader=true|access-date=12 June 2015}}
|-
{{album chart|Norway|16|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Sticky Fingers|refname=NOR1|rowheader=true|access-date=12 June 2015}}
|-
{{album chart|Portugal|25|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Sticky Fingers|rowheader=true|access-date=12 June 2015}}
|-
{{album chart|Scotland|4|date=20150614|rowheader=true|access-date=26 July 2025}}
|-
{{album chart|Spain|8|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Sticky Fingers|rowheader=true|access-date=12 June 2015}}
|-
{{album chart|Sweden|31|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Sticky Fingers|rowheader=true|access-date=12 June 2015}}
|-
{{album chart|Switzerland|16|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Sticky Fingers|rowheader=true|access-date=17 June 2015}}
|-
{{album chart|UK|7|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Sticky Fingers|refname=UK1|rowheader=true|access-date=12 June 2015}}
|-
{{album chart|UKDigital|63|date=20150614|rowheader=true|access-date=26 July 2025}}
|-
{{Album chart|Billboard200|5|artist=The Rolling Stones|rowheader=true|accessdate=22 December 2022}}
|-
{{Album chart|Billboard200|65|artist=The Rolling Stones|rowheader=true|accessdate=22 December 2022|note=Super Deluxe Edition}}
|}
{{col-2}}
 
===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+1971 year-end chart performance for ''Sticky Fingers''
! Chart (1971)
! Position
|-
!scope="row"|[[List of Top 25 albums for 1971 in Australia|Australian Albums Chart]]<ref name="auchart">{{Cite book|title=[[Kent Music Report|Australian Chart Book 1970–1992]]|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book|___location=[[St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives, NSW]]|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}</ref>
| align="center"| 18
|-
!scope="row"|Dutch Albums Chart<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dutchcharts.nl/jaaroverzichten.asp?year=1971&cat=a|title=Dutch charts jaaroverzichten 1971|format=ASP|language=nl|access-date=2 April 2014|archive-date=12 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512112218/http://dutchcharts.nl/jaaroverzichten.asp?year=1971&cat=a|url-status=live}}</ref>
| align="center"| 1
|-
!scope="row"|French Albums Chart<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infodisc.fr/B-CD_1971.php|title=Les Albums (CD) de 1971 par InfoDisc|language=fr|format=PHP|publisher=infodisc.fr|access-date=1 February 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102034156/http://www.infodisc.fr/B-CD_1971.php|archive-date=2 January 2016}}</ref>
| align="center"| 24
|-
!scope="row"| German Albums Chart<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/album-jahr/for-date-1971|title=Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts|date=1971|publisher=[[GfK Entertainment Charts]]|language=de|access-date=2 April 2022}}</ref>
| align="center"| 13
|-
!scope="row"|UK Albums Chart<ref name="UKYearend">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071217020432/http://www.theofficialcharts.com/album_chart_history_1971.php|url=http://www.theofficialcharts.com/album_chart_history_1971.php|title=The Official UK Charts Company : ALBUM CHART HISTORY|archive-date=17 December 2007 |access-date=17 December 2007}}</ref>
| align="center"| 3
|-
!scope="row"|US [[Billboard Year-End|''Billboard'' 200]]<ref name="USYearend71">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQ8EAAAAMBAJ&q=Sticky+Fingers&pg=RA1-PA15|title=1971 Year-end Albums – The Billboard Pop Albums|date=25 December 1971|access-date=3 October 2011|archive-date=18 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318084031/https://books.google.com/books?id=SQ8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA15&lpg=RA1-PA15&dq=Sticky+Fingers|url-status=live}}</ref>
| align="center"| 21
|}
{{col-end}}
 
==Certifications==
{{Certification Table Top|caption=Certifications for ''Sticky Fingers''}}
{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|region=Australia|award=Gold|certref=<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/rolling-stones-sticky-fingers-3923974052|access-date=12 March 2023|title=The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers Australian In-Gold Record Award}}</ref>|relyear=1971|certyear=1971|note=original release}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Australia|type=album|award=Gold|certyear=2015|access-date=17 June 2016|note=release of 2015}}
{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|region=Canada|award=Platinum|certref=<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Billboard-Index/IDX/1976/1976-10-02-Billboard-Page-0063.pdf#search=%22fragile%20canada%20platinum%22|access-date=20 December 2020|title=Warner /Elektra /Atlantic Sets Canada's AII- Time,12 -Month Sales Record - 44 Gold and Platinum Albums:Platinum-Album|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=October 2, 1976|page=63}}</ref>|relyear=1971}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=France|type=album|artist=The Rolling Stones|title=Sticky Fingers|award=Gold|relyear=1971|access-date=1 June 2012|source=infodisc|certyear=1990}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Italy|title=Sticky Fingers|artist=Rolling Stones|type=album|award=Gold|access-date=20 September 2021|certyear=2021|id=8996}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Norway|title=Sticky Fingers|artist=Rolling Stones|type=album|award=Silver|relyear=1972|salesamount=20,000|certref=<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Cash-Box/70s/1972/Cash-Box-1972-09-16.pdf|title=WEA's International's…|publisher=Cash Box|page=42|date=16 September 1972}}</ref>|salesref=<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hAkEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22italy%22+%22no+Silver+disk+for+singles|title=Gold/Silver Record Chart|magazine=Billboard|date=26 December 1974|access-date=12 November 2019|archive-date=14 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200914143621/https://books.google.hr/books?id=hAkEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22italy%22+%22no+Silver+disk+for+singles|url-status=live}}</ref>|access-date=13 November 2019}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=album|artist=The Rolling Stones|title=Sticky Fingers|award=Platinum|relyear=2015|certyear=2019|id=10397-44-2|access-date=19 June 2019|note= release of 2015}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=album|artist=The Rolling Stones|title=Sticky Fingers|award=Platinum|number=3|relyear=1971|access-date=1 May 2012}}
{{Certification Table Bottom| streaming=true}}
 
== See also ==
* [[Album era]]
* [[List of Canadian number-one albums of 1971]]
* [[List of number-one albums in Australia during the 1970s]]
* [[List of number-one albums from the 1970s (UK)]]
 
==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}
 
==Further reading==
*{{cite book|title=A Brief History of Album Covers|first=Jason|last=Draper|publisher=Flame Tree Publishing|___location=London|year=2008|pages=98–99|isbn=9781847862112|oclc=227198538}}
* {{cite book
| last= Warwick
| first= Neil
|author2=Jon Kutner |author3=Tony Brown
| title= The Complete Book of the British Charts: Singles and Albums
|publisher= [[Omnibus Press]]
|year= 2004
|isbn= 1-84449-058-0
}}
 
==External links==
* {{Discogs master|type=album|23828}}
 
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