Exile on Main St.
Studio album by The Rolling Stones
Released	12 May 1972
Recorded	10 July - late July 1971, 14 October - 23 November 1971, 4 December - 19 December 1971, 10 January - 25 March 1972
Genre	Rock
Length	67:17
Label	Rolling Stones/Atlantic
Producer	Jimmy Miller
Professional reviews
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The Rolling Stones chronology
Sticky Fingers (1971) Exile on Main St. (1972) Goats Head Soup (1973)

Exile on Main St. is a double album released in 1972 by The Rolling Stones. A sprawling album drawing on influences ranging from rock & roll, blues, country, and soul, Exile was initially greeted with lukewarm reviews, but is now widely considered the band's finest work and one of the defining masterpieces of the rock era.^[1] In 2003 it was listed as number 7 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Image File history File links ExileMainSt. ... A studio album is a collection of studio-recorded tracks by a recording artist. ... Rolling Stones redirects here. ... is the 132nd day of the year (133rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... is the 338th day of the year (339th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 84th day of the year (85th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... Rolling Stones Records is the record label formed by The Rolling Stones in 1970, after their recording contract with Decca Records expired. ... Atlantic Records (Atlantic Recording Corporation) is an American record label, and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Jimmy Miller (1944-1994) was a Brooklyn-born record producer who produced albums for The Spencer Davis Group (in fact, he co-wrote the song Gimme Some Lovin with Steve Winwood), Traffic , Blind Faith, Bobby Whitlock and The Rolling Stones (all albums from Beggars Banquet to Goats Head Soup), New... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 5_stars. ... This article is about the magazine. ... Image File history File links 5_stars. ... Robert Christgau (born April 18, 1942), is an American essayist, music journalist, and the self-declared Dean of American Rock Critics.[1] In print, his name is sometimes abbreviated as Xgau. ... Rolling Stones redirects here. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Goats Head Soup is an album by The Rolling Stones released in 1973. ... A double album is an audio album of sufficient length that two units of the medium in which it is sold (especially records and compact discs) are necessary to contain the entirety of it. ... Rolling Stones redirects here. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Blues music redirects here. ... country music, see Country music (disambiguation) Country music, the first half of Billboards country and western music category, is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States. ... For other uses, see Soul music (disambiguation). ... This article is about the magazine. ... Promotional Book Cover The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time was the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone magazine published in November 2003. ...

History

Exile on Main St. is an album composed of outakes and tracks written and recorded over the period of four years, from 1968 to 1972. On those earlier songs, singer Mick Jagger said in 2003, "...After we got out of our contract with Allen Klein, we didn't want to give him [those earlier tracks]," as they were forced to do with the songs "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses" off Sticky Fingers. Most were recorded between 1969 and 1971 at Olympic Studios and Jagger's Stargroves country house in England during sessions for Sticky Fingers.^[2] Sir Michael Phillip Mick Jagger (born July 26, 1943) is an English rock musician, actor, songwriter, record and film producer and businessman. ... Allen Klein (born December 18, 1931) is an American businessman and record label executive. ... Brown Sugar is a song by British rock and roll band the Rolling Stones. ... For other uses, see Wild Horses (disambiguation). ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Olympic Studios is a commercial recording studio located at 117 Church Road, in the south-western suburb of Barnes in London, England. ... Stargroves in East End, Newbury, was the 1970s home of Mick Jagger, who recorded Exile On Main Street and five songs from Sticky Fingers there. ...

By the spring of 1971, the Stones were forced into abandoning their home country of England due to the amount of taxes the British government expected the band to pay. The Stones would have to leave by April 5, or the government would have seized their assets. After much consideration the Stones chose to settle in France at Villefranche-sur-Mer, near Nice. It was there where guitarist Keith Richards had rented Nellcôte, the "Gestapo headquarters during the Second World War," according to Richards, complete with swastikas on the floor vents. It was here where the Stones would begin work on constructing their next album. For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Villefranche-sur-Mer (Niçard: Vilafranca de Mar, Italian: Villafranca Marittima) is a small town and commune in the Alpes-Maritimes département. ... Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Coordinates Administration Country Region Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur Department Alpes-Maritimes (06) Intercommunality Community of Agglomeration Nice Côte dAzur Mayor Jacques Peyrat (UMP) (since 1995) Statistics Land area¹ 71. ... Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English guitarist, songwriter, singer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones in 1962. ... Villa Nellcôte Villa Nellcôte is a stunning 19th century mansion built on the waterfront of Villefranche-sur-Mer in the Côte dAzur region of southern France. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... This article is about the symbol. ...

Recording at Nellcôte

Recording would begin in earnest sometime near the middle of June. Bassist Bill Wyman recalls the band working all night, every night from eight in the evening until three the following morning for the rest of the month. Wyman said of the times, "...not everyone turned up every night. This was, for me, one of the major frustrations of this whole period. For our previous two albums we had worked well and listened to producer Jimmy Miller. At Nellcôte things were very different and it took me a while to understand why..." By this time Richards had begun a daily habit of taking heroin to curb the pain caused by a go-cart accident earlier in the month. Thousands of dollars of heroin flowed through the mansion each week in addition to a contingent of visitors that included the likes of William S. Burroughs, Terry Southern, John Lennon, and Gram Parsons.^[3] (Contrary to popular belief, Parsons does not appear on the album and was asked to leave Nellcôte in early July 1971, the result of both his obnoxious behavior and an attempt by Richards to clean the house of drug users as the result of pressure from the French police.) Bill Wyman (born William George Perks on 24 October 1936) was the bassist for the English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones from its founding in 1962 until 1993. ... Jimmy Miller (1944-1994) was a Brooklyn-born record producer who produced albums for The Spencer Davis Group (in fact, he co-wrote the song Gimme Some Lovin with Steve Winwood), Traffic , Blind Faith, Bobby Whitlock and The Rolling Stones (all albums from Beggars Banquet to Goats Head Soup), New... For other uses, see Heroin (disambiguation). ... William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914) - August 2, 1997; pronounced ), more commonly known as William S. Burroughs, was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. ... Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was a highly influential American short story writer, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and university lecturer. ... John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ... Gram Parsons (November 5, 1946 – September 19, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. ...

Richards' steadily growing addiction to the opiate began to inhibit his ability to perform with the band, often leading the band to have to record in altered forms without every member present. A notable instance was the recording of one of Richards' most famous lead vocals, "Happy". Recorded in the basement, Richards said in 1982, "'Happy' was something I did because I was for one time EARLY for a session. There was Bobby Keys and Jimmy Miller... We had nothing to do and had suddenly picked up the guitar and played this riff. So we cut it and it's the record, it's the same. We cut the original track with a baritone sax, a guitar and Jimmy Miller on drums. And the rest of it is built up over that track. It was just an afternoon jam that everybody said, 'Wow, yeah, work on it'".

The basic band for the Nellcôte sessions is believed to have consisted of Richards, Bobby Keys, Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts, Miller (a notable drummer in his own right who covered for an absentee Watts on the aforementioned "Happy" and "Shine a Light"),^[2] and Jagger when he was available. Wyman did not like the ambience of the Richards' villa and sat out many of the French sessions. As Wyman appeared on only eight songs of the released album, the other bass parts were played by Taylor, Richards, and, on four tracks, upright bassist Bill Plummer. Wyman noted in his memoir Stone Alone that there was a clear dichotomy between the band members who freely indulged in drugs (Richards, Miller, Keys, Taylor, engineer Andy Johns) and those who more or less abstained (Wyman, Watts, and Jagger). ^[3] Bobby Keys is a saxophone player. ... Michael Mick Kevin Taylor (born 17 January 1949 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire) is an English musician best known as the former guitarist for The Rolling Stones. ... Charles Robert Charlie Watts (born 2 June 1941) is the drummer of The Rolling Stones. ...

Recording in Los Angeles

Additional basic tracks (most probably only "Rip this Joint", "Shake Your Hips", "Casino Boogie", "Happy", "Rocks Off", "Turd on the Run", and "Ventilator Blues" )^[2] were begun in the basement of Nellcôte and taken to Sunset Sound Recorders in Los Angeles where numerous overdubs (all piano and keyboard parts, all lead and backing vocals, all guitar and bass overdubs) were added during sessions that meandered from December 1971 until May 1972. Some tracks (like "Torn and Frayed" and "Loving Cup") were freshly recorded in Los Angeles.^[2] Although Jagger (who had recently wed Bianca Perez Morena de Macias) was frequently missing from Nellcôte^[3], he immediately took charge during the second stage of recording in Los Angeles, arranging for keyboardists Billy Preston and Dr. John and the cream of the city's session backup vocalists to record layers of overdubs.^[2] The final gospel-inflected arrangements of "Tumbling Dice", "Loving Cup", "Let it Loose" and "Shine a Light" were inspired by Jagger and Preston's visit to a local evangelical church.^[2] Sunset Sound Recorders is a legendary recording studio in Hollywood, California, located at 6650 Sunset Boulevard. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Overdubbing is a technique used by recording studios to add a supplementary recorded sound to a previously taped musical recording. ... Bianca Jagger at the Dropping Knowledge projects Table of Free Voices in Berlin, September 2006 Bianca Jagger (born Bianca Pérez Morena de Macías on May 2, 1950, in Managua, Nicaragua) is a social and human rights advocate. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... William Everett Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was an American soul musician from Houston, Texas, raised mostly in Los Angeles, California. ... Dr. John is the stage name of Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. ...

The elongated recording sessions and differing methodologies on the part of Jagger and Richards reflected the growing disparity in their personal lives.^[3] During the making of the album, Jagger had married, which was followed by the birth of their only child, Jade, in October 1971. Richards was firmly ensconced with partner Anita Pallenberg, yet both were in the throes of heroin addiction,^[3] which Richards would not overcome until the turn of the decade. Even though the album served as an encapsulation of the "cosmic American music" theory so ardently promulgated by Parsons and is often described as being Richards' finest moment, Jagger was already expressing his boredom with rock and roll in several interviews at the time of the album's release.^[3] With Richards largely beholden to heroin, the group's subsequent 1970s releases—directed largely by Jagger—would experiment in varying degrees with other musical genres, moving away from the thoroughly roots-based sound of Exile On Main St.^[3] Jade Sheena Jezebel Jagger (born October 21, 1971 in Paris, France) is a British jewelry designer and lifestyle entrepreneur. ... Anita Pallenberg (born January 25, 1944 in Rome, Italy) is a model, actress and fashion designer. ... Heroin or diamorphine (INN) (colloquially referred to as junk, babania, horse, golden brown, smack, black tar, big H, lady H, dope, skag, juice, diesel, etc. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ...

Release and legacy

Released in May 1972, having been preceded by the Top 10 hit "Tumbling Dice", Exile On Main St. was an immediate commercial success, hitting #1 worldwide just as the band embarked on their famed 1972 American Tour, their first in the U.S. in three years, and during which they played many songs from the new album. "Happy", sung by Richards, would be a Top 30 US hit later that summer. Tumbling Dice is a rock song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for The Rolling Stones 1972 double album Exile on Main St. ... The Rolling Stones American Tour 1972, often referred the S.T.P. Tour (for Stones Touring Party), was a much-publicized and much-written-about concert tour of The United States and Canada in June and July 1972 by The Rolling Stones. ...

Although critics judged Exile on Main St. to be a ragged record at the time of its release, its reputation has since grown. On the critical and commercial reaction, Richards said, "When [Exile] came out it didn't sell particularly well at the beginning, and it was also pretty much universally panned. But within a few years the people who had written the reviews saying it was a piece of crap were extolling it as the best frigging album in the world."^[4]

However, music critic Robert Christgau concluded in 1972; "Incontrovertibly the year’s best, this fagged-out masterpiece is the summum of Rock ’72. Even now, I can always get pleasure out of any of its four sides, but it took me perhaps twenty-five listenings before I began to understand what the Stones were up to, and I still haven’t finished the job. Just say they’re 'Advancing Artistically', in the manner of self-conscious public creators careering down the corridors of destiny. Exile explores new depths of record-studio murk, burying Mick’s voice under layers of cynicism, angst, and ennui..."^[2] Robert Christgau (born April 18, 1942), is an American essayist, music journalist, and the self-declared Dean of American Rock Critics.[1] In print, his name is sometimes abbreviated as Xgau. ...

In 1994, Exile on Main St. was remastered and reissued on one CD by Virgin Records. CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit České Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s... Virgin Records was a British recording label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, and Nik Powell in 1972. ...

Band appreciation

At the time of Exile's release, Jagger said, "This new album is fucking mad. There's so many different tracks. It's very rock & roll, you know. I didn't want it to be like that. I'm the more experimental person in the group, you see I like to experiment. Not go over the same thing over and over. Since I've left England, I've had this thing I've wanted to do. I'm not against rock & roll, but I really want to experiment... The new album's very rock & roll and it's good. I think rock & roll is getting a bit... I mean, I'm very bored with rock & roll. The revival. Everyone knows what their roots are, but you've got to explore everywhere. You've got to explore the sky too." ^[2]

In 2003, Jagger said, "Exile... is not one of my favourite albums, although I think the record does have a particular feeling. I'm not too sure how great the songs are, but put together it's a nice piece. However, when I listen to Exile it has some of the worst mixes I've ever heard. I'd love to remix the record, not just because of the vocals, but because generally I think it sounds lousy. At the time Jimmy Miller was not functioning properly. I had to finish the whole record myself, because otherwise there were just these drunks and junkies... Of course I'm ultimately responsible for it, but it's really not good and there's no concerted effort or intention." ^[4]

On the album, Richards said, "Exile was a double album. And because it's a double album you're going to be hitting different areas, including 'D for Down', and the Stones really felt like exiles. We didn't start off intending to make a double album; we just went down to the south of France to make an album and by the time we'd finished we said, 'We want to put it all out'... The point is that the Stones had reached a point where we no longer had to do what we were told to do. Around the time Andrew Oldham left us, we'd done our time, things were changing and I was not longer interested in hitting Number One in the charts every time. What I want to do is good shit - if it's good they'll get it some time down the road."^[4] Andrew Loog Oldham (born 1944) is a British rock and roll producer, impresario and author. ...

Accolades

In 1998 Q magazine readers voted Exile on Main St. the 42nd greatest album of all time ^[5], while in 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 3 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever^[6]. In 1987 it was ranked #3 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the greatest 100 albums of the period 1967-1987^[7]. In 2003, Pitchfork Media ranked it number eleven on their Top 100 Albums of the 1970s^[8]. In 2001, the TV network VH1 placed it at number 22 on their best albums survey^[9]. The album was ranked number 19 on the October 2006 issue of Guitar World magazine's list of the greatest 100 guitar albums of all time^{[citation needed]}.In 2007, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame placed the album #6 on the "Definitive 200" list of albums that "every music lover should own."^{[citation needed]} Q is a music and entertainment magazinepublished monthly in the United Kingdom. ... This article is about the magazine. ... Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork, is a United States-based daily Internet publication devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. ... A television network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations. ... VH1 (VH-1: Video Hits One until 1994) is an American cable television channel that was created in January 1985 by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and owners of MTV. VH1 and sister channel MTV are currently part of the MTV Networks division... Two issues of Guitar World featuring Jimmy Page, and Jimi Hendrix on the covers, and the accompanying CDs (May 2005, October 2005) Guitar World is a monthly music magazine devoted to guitarists. ... National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) is a not-for-profit trade association that serves the music retailing community in the areas of networking, advocacy, information, education and promotion. ... The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at sunset. ...

The album and its title has frequently been referenced by other bands in their own album titles. For example, the British acid house group Alabama 3 titled its debut album Exile on Coldharbour Lane. Perhaps the most notable reference comes from indie singer/songwriter Liz Phair's debut album Exile in Guyville. Phair herself claims the album to be a direct song-by-song "response" of sorts to Exile on Main St., though few actual connections have been made by critics or fans. Noise-rock band Pussy Galore released a complete cover of the album. Post-grunge band Matchbox Twenty paid homage to this album by titling their 2007 retrospective Exile on Mainstream. For the 1994 novel by Irvine Welsh, see The Acid House. ... Alabama 3 is a British acid house, blues, country and gospel music band founded in Brixton, London, in 1989. ... Exile on Coldharbour Lane is the debut album by Alabama 3. ... Liz Phair (born Elizabeth Clark Phair on April 17, 1967 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... Exile in Guyville is American singer-songwriter Liz Phairs 1993 debut album. ... Pussy Galore was an American noise rock band that formed in Washington D.C. during 1985. ... Matchbox Twenty (originally spelled Matchbox 20 on Yourself Or Someone Like You, typeset as matchbox twenty on most official merchandise and albums) is a rock band formed in Orlando, Florida. ... Exile on Mainstream is the fourth album by Matchbox Twenty and is a greatest hits album containing eleven previous hits and six new tracks that emerged from a twelve-song recording session in L.A., produced by Steve Lillywhite. ...

Track listing

All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted. Jagger/Richards is a songwriting team that consists of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. ...

Side 1

1. "Rocks Off" – 4:32
   • Recorded in LA, early 1972
2. "Rip This Joint" – 2:23
   • Features Bill Plummer on upright bass
3. "Shake Your Hips" (Slim Harpo) – 2:59
   • Recordings started in Spring 1970 at Stargroves
4. "Casino Boogie" – 3:33
   • Features Richards on bass
5. "Tumbling Dice" – 3:45
   • Features Jagger on guitar and Mick Taylor on bass. Recordings started at Stargroves, Spring 1970, under the working title "Goodtime Women Blues"

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1. "Sweet Virginia" – 4:25
   • Recorded in mid-1970 at Stargroves
2. "Torn and Frayed" – 4:17
   • Features Mick Taylor on bass and Al Perkins on pedal steel guitar. Recorded in L.A., early 1972
3. "Sweet Black Angel" – 2:54
   • Features Jimmy Miller on percussion. Recordings started early 1970 at Stargroves
4. "Loving Cup" – 4:23
   • Recorded in LA, early 1972

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1. "Happy" – 3:04
   • Features Richards on lead vocal and bass and producer Jimmy Miller on drums
2. "Turd on the Run" – 2:37
   • Features Bill Plummer on upright bass
3. "Ventilator Blues" (Jagger, Richards, Mick Taylor) – 3:24
   • Features Nicky Hopkins on piano.
4. "I Just Want to See His Face" – 2:52
   • Features Bill Plummer on upright bass and Richards on piano
5. "Let It Loose" – 5:17
   • Features Dr. John among others on backing vocals. Recordings started at Stargroves, early 1970.

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1. "All Down the Line" – 3:49
   • Features Bill Plummer on upright bass and Bill Wyman on electric bass. Recorded at Stargroves, spring 1970, and Sunset Sound, early 1972
2. "Stop Breaking Down" (Robert Johnson) – 4:34
   • Features Jagger on rhythm guitar, Recorded at Stargroves, spring 1970
3. "Shine a Light" – 4:14
   • Features Miller on drums and Billy Preston on organ. An early version was recorded in Spring 1970, and released in 1970, by Leon Russell as "Get a Line on You," together with Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Mick Taylor and Ringo Starr.
4. "Soul Survivor" – 3:49
   • Features Richards on bass. Recorded in LA, early 1972

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Personnel

• Mick Jagger – Vocals, Harmonica, Guitar
• Keith Richards – Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Piano
• Mick Taylor – Electric Guitar, Slide Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass
• Charlie Watts – Drums
• Bill Wyman – Bass, Upright Bass

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Additional personnel

• Ian Stewart – Piano
• Mac Rebennack (Dr. John) – Backing Vocals, Piano
• Billy Preston – Piano, Organ
• Bill Plummer – Upright Bass
• Nicky Hopkins – Piano
• Clydie King – Backing Vocals
• Jim Price – Trumpet, Trombone, Organ
• Bobby Keys – Saxophone, Percussion
• Amyl Nitrate – Marimba
• Al Perkins – Pedal Steel Guitar
• Jerry Kirkland – Backing Vocals
• Tammi Lynn – Backing Vocals
• Kathi McDonald – Backing Vocals
• Jimmy Miller – Drums, Percussion, Maracas
• Vanetta Field – Backing Vocals
• Shirley Goodman – Backing Vocals
• Joe Green – Backing Vocals

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Recording personnel

• Glyn Johns – engineer
• Andy Johns – engineer
• Joe Zaganno – engineer
• Jeremy Gee – engineer

• Robert Frank – photography
• Norman Seeff – design
• John Van Hamersveld – design

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Charts

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Certifications

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External links

• Exile on Main St. on RollingStones.com
• Rolling Stone magazine's original 1972 review

References

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2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} Exile on Main St.. timeisonourside.com. Retrieved on 2006-07-06.
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} Greenfield, Robert. Making Their Masterpiece: Exile on Main St.. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2006-07-06.
4. ^ ^{a b c} Loewenstein, Dora; Philip Dodd (2003). According to the Rolling Stones. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. ISBN 0-8118-4060-3. 
5. ^ "Q Readers All Time Top 100 Albums". Q. February, 1998 (accessed 8 July 2007).
6. ^ Greatest British Albums "100 Greatest British Albums". Q. June, 2000 (accessed 8 July 2007).
7. ^ "TOP 100 ALBUMS OF THE LAST 20 YEARS ". Rolling Stone. September, 1987 (accessed 8 July 2007).
8. ^ "Top 100 Albums of the 1970s". Pitchfork. 23 June 2004 (accessed 8 July 2007).
9. ^ "Greatest Albums of Rock and Roll". VH1. 23 June 2001 (accessed 8 July 2007).