This course will survey the music of the Rolling Stones, beginning with the roots and first formation of the band in the early 1960s, and following the group through the release of It's Only Rock 'n' Roll in late 1974.
1970 Overview and Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out
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Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers
The Stones leave peace and love behind, jumping and fighting with some sympathy for the Devil, 1968-69.
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John CovachProfessor of Music and Director
Institute for Popular Music
The year 1970 brings some of those changes, some more of those changes,
that we talked about when we talked about 1969.
Fewer tragedies, is the good news here.
But, but some pretty important changes.
So, let's take an overview of 1970 and now we'll talk about Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!
Which was really the big album, released by the band in 1970.
Sticky Fingers the next studio album we're not going to see until
the first half of 1971.
So let's just talk about 1970 for now.
In March of 1970, the Sticky Fingers sessions begin
well they, they, some of the sessions begin at Olympic.
But they also begin at at something called The Rolling Stones Mobile Unit.
This was a, this was kind of a, used,
used to be able to take recording equipment around.
But when you took recording equipment around on location, it was,
you basically bring a truck around that would just kind of store the gear.
And then when you got to the place, you'd take the gear out of the truck and
you'd just roll it into wherever you were going to record and set it up.
Not unlike you'd set up band equipment for a gig.
But the Rolling Stones Mobile Unit was something that was different.
It was one of those kinds of things where the recording console, the monitor,
speakers, everything,
all these kinds of things were built right into the back of the truck.
So when you opened up the back door it was like walking into
a recording studio right there.
And this, this Rolling Stones Mobile Unit was actually not only used by
the Rolling Stones but used by other groups, as well.
To, to record, to, to record their albums.
Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin and groups like that.
And this, the Rolling Stones Mobile Unit will become increasingly a part of our
story as we talk about Exile on Main Street, next week.
So, some of these, these, these things done, at,
at Mick's, house, which he called Stargroves.
So this is a chance for them to just kind of
not have the pressures of the studio and the schedules that went with that and
just kind of record when they wanted to, how they wanted to.
It's the beginning of a way of working that will almost be taken
to excess with exile and mainstream.
Because there's no clock running, there's nobody paying for the time here.
They're basically just recording on their own gear.
So anyway this, this all starts to happen in 1970.
In the summer Allen Klein is officially out
as the guy that is handling their financial end.
They bring in a fellow by the name of Prince Rupert Loewenstein,
who takes over the band finances and is largely credited with the guy
as being the guy who turned the Rolling Stones into multimillionaires.
He was somebody who apparently was, you know, Mick Jagger trusted,
thought of him as being honest, and, and, and very,
would, would not abuse the, the group's finances in any way.
And it turned out that he was not actually,
Prince Rupert was not actually very much a fan of the Stones' music.
When it really came down to it, he didn't like pop music very much, and
if it had to be pop, he would've preferred the Beatles.
But he was a fantastic money manager.
And so this is really when the Stones start to become
a big money making machine, where they get to keep more and more of that money.
Well, just at about this time, with the, the thing with Allen Klein happens.
The Decca deal inspi, expires.
So there's, remember there was a period a couple years back where Allen Klein
came in.
And the Stones all stood around like this with their glasses on,
didn't say anything and Klein sort of intimidated
these British executives into giving the group a fantastic deal with Decca.
Well that deal was now expiring, and with it the Stones thought,
well, their relationship with Allen Klein would also expire.
Turned out that the deal they had signed with Klein meant that he got to keep
the rights to their early recordings and a lot of the publishing and
they were not too happy to have found out that happened.
But like a lot of what happened with the business end of thing with Andrew and
Alan and people like that were running at the Stones really weren't
reading the fine print in a lot of these contracts.
So that, I think they felt a little bit ripped off.
Although I think Allen Klein did just what any music person would do.
He got the best deal he could.
It was very favorable to him and he profited richly.
So, you know, power, you know, more power to you.
When the Decca deal expired, the group were told were told they owed,
they owed Decca one more single.
And they didn't want to give 'em one more single.
So they recorded song they knew Decca would reject, and
it had a title that's too vulgar for me to use in these videos.
So you can look it up, I'll just call this C_S_Blues and
you can figure out what CS stands for.
The word was offensive enough that
that the Stones knew that Decca would never release it.
And that was kind of their you know their way of saying goodbye to Decca for
all those years together.
What Decca ended up doing is instead of releasing C_S_Blues, they released
Street Fighting Man, which was released in the UK, only because that's where,
that's where Decca could released material in July of 1971.
So two years after it was released, in,
in the, in the U.S. and remember, last week, we, we puzzled over, well,
why, how was it released at one point in the U.S. and later in, well, here's why.
Because they, this was, this was something they had that they hadn't released
the single, so they released the single.
And they put on the back of it, Surprise, Surprise, which,
as I mentioned last week, was recorded back in September of 1964.
And the whole reason for that is because they wanted to bring out a Stones single,
they couldn't get the new off them so they recorded something they took, they took
an album that hadn't been recorded, hadn't been released as a single in the UK.
Well it went to number 21 anyway.
They also released in in 1971 a UK
only compilation called Stone Age which is interesting.
Because they release it in March of 71, it goes to number four in the UK, but the,
these releases, Street Fighting Man and Stone Age on Decca,
actually compete with the Rolling Stones' own releases during that time.
They released Brown Sugar in April of 71.
It does a little better than Street Fighting Man,
it goes to number two in the UK.
In Sticky Fingers, which in the UK, it also was released in April '71 and
goes to number one, in the UK.
So, we've got the Stones with two albums and
two singles on the charts at the same time in the UK.
And, to me, that's, that, that reminds me of the time,
in 1964 when the Beatles first broke in the United States, and they had albums and
singles on the charts both by Capitol Records and On by v, and VJs.
Here we are now some almost ten years later, seven years later,
and the same situation with the Stones, but in the UK and it all has to do with,
with record companies and deals.
So, this Decca thing ends.
The deal with Klein was reportedly that he, you know he had his,
contractually had the material from earlier.
He was also owed two more singles and so
he apparently got dual copyright ownership of Brown Sugar and Wild Horses,
two singles that came off of of the Sticky Fingers album.
But, what the Stones decided to do was form their own record company,
their own label.
Really, it was distributed by Atlantic Records.
It began and the people there at Atlantic in New York basically,
distributed the records but wrote, the Rolling Stones put their own label on it.
And they brought in a fellow by the name of Marshall Chess,
the son of Leonard Chess of Chess Records in Chicago.
Who came in and took over Rolling Stones Records, and ran it for
the next several years as the Rolling Stones brought out
about an album a year on Rolling Stones Records.
So if you look at the back, especially in America, you look at the back of those
CDs, it would say Rolling Stones Records for Sticky Fingers but if you go to get
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out or or let it bleed, it will say Atco or Decca pop.
In the UK it will say Decca, in the United States it will say Atco.
And so that's, that's why the difference because now the ownership and
the labels have changed.
During this time, Mick Jagger flirts with the idea of becoming a movie star.
He appears in two films, one called Performance,
which was released in August of 1970, another called Ned Kelly,
which was released in October of 19, 1970.
Gimme Shelter, a movie that sort of documents the Stones' performance and
tour in America during 19, the end of 1969, including the ultima incident.
And their recording at Muscle Scholes is released in December of 1970.
And don't forget, the, the Jean-Luc Godard,
movie that they'd already been in, which was originally released as One Plus One.
But was released as Sympathy for the Devil.
We talked about that last week,
where you can kind of see them recording Sympathy for the Devil up, in the studio.
That have been released, as I said, in 68.
Well, August through October of 1970, the group, undertake a European Tour.
Those are the only live gigs.
I remember they'd just done a big tour, that ended with Altamonte in late 1969.
They do a little European tour a few months out,
in Europe in 1970 August through October.
And then they release Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!, The Rolling Stones in Concert,
and that's released in September of 1970, going to number one in the UK.
Number six in the US and that is a Decca recording.
The second to the last from Decca so they.
So Decca gets Get Yer Ya-Ya's out and they record their own their own comp,
they bring out their own compilation in 71 Stone Age.
And that's pretty much it for the Rolling Stones and and and
Decca until later when they buy the rights back just a few years ago.
Well Mick Jagger brings out a solo record called Memo from Turner
which was part of the movie that he had been involved in Performance.
Part of the deal with him being in the movie was that he was going to
provide a song for its a memo, Memo from Turner was that song.
Recorded in September and
October of 68 but released in October of 70 produced by Jack Nitzsche.
So here he is continuing to be part of the scene engineered by Glyn Johns
recorded at Olympic and the B side on that interestingly a song called Natural Magic.
Well Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out, The Rolling Stones in concert.
This was the first Rolling Stones record, live record,
that they were willing to take credit for.
We have seen other Stones live records.
Got It Live If You Want It, for example.
The two versions, the EP in the UK and the LP in the US,
but the Stones never really wanted to take credit for either one of those.
They saw those as, I don't know, marketing ploys, something like that.
But this one, they were really kind of proud.
This is the record that was recorded during that, that tour in late 1969,
the one that that ended with the bad scene at Altamonte.
It was released at, almost a year later in September of 1970.
As I said before going to number one in the UK, number six in the US.
It was actually recorded the live album is a compilation of three different shows.
A Madison Square Garden show and a Baltimore Civic Auditorium show.
Actually, I think there may be four, the four different shows.
Madison Square Garden shows one on November the 27th,
two on the 28th of, a matinee show and a later show.
And then another one that took place at the Baltimore Civic Center
on November the 26th.
The songs there, all songs we've seen before.
Jumpin' Jack Flash, Carol, Stray Blues, Love in Vain, Midnight Rambler,
Sympathy for the Devil, Live with Me, Little Queenie, Street Fighting Man,
all tunes that had, had been released in studio versions.
You can you know do a little bit of research on this and
find out exactly which show which of these came from.
But, while it presents itself as a complete Rolling Stones show it's
a composite of the best performances of each of these songs from,
from a number of different shows.
What's interesting to me, look there are three cover versions, involved in here.
You got Carol, Love in Vain and, Little Queenie.
So, that, that strikes me as being, as being interesting that they are continuing
to do,uh, these cover versions live when they've really kind of in many ways going
to almost exclusively original, except for the Blues Covers thing.
The cover art Features a photo of Charlie Watts by David Bailey.
Now we've talked about David Bailey in cover photos before here.
So it's interesting to see David Bailey back on the scene again.
The impression you get is it's taken during the U.S. tour in 1969 because
there's a scene in Gimme Shelter of Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts and David Bailey
actually doing this photo shoot on a road somewhere in, in the United States.
With Charlie sort of you know trying it different kinds of ways and
Mick Jagger sort of posing Charlie and all this.
So the picture you get you actually sort of see them them,
them shooting during the Gimme Shelter film, which is kind of fun to watch.
Before we move on to Sticky Fingers, let me just say a word again
about this compilation Stone Age released in March of 71.
Decca squeezing one more album release out of the Stones.
This one went to number one four on the U.K. charts.
So not a bad idea including things that had been previously released on
Decca which they owned the rights to Look What You've Done, It's All Over Now,
Confessin' the Blues, One More Try, As Tears Go By, The Spider And The Fly,
My Girl, Paint It Black, If You Need Me, the Last Time, Blue Turns to Grey, and
Around and Around.
So at this point now the Stones are on to a new
new management new record deal situation, new members.
And many would say that when they hit Sticky Fingers
they had an album that really is one of the classic Stones albums of all time.
We'll take a closer look at that, Sticky Fingers, in the next video.
