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Let It Bleed is an album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1969. The follow up to 1968's Beggars Banquet, it appeared shortly after the band's 1969 American Tour, their first in the U.S. in three years. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Let it Bleed is a 1996 novel by Ian Rankin. ... Image File history File links LetItBleed. ... A studio album is a collection of previously unreleased, studio-recorded tracks by a recording artist. ... Rolling Stones redirects here. ... is the 339th day of the year (340th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ... In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... It has been suggested that Decca Music Group be merged into this article or section. ... ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. ... London Records is a record label headquartered in the United Kingdom, originally marketing records in the United States, Canada and Latin America from 1947 through the 1980s. ... ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... 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, Traffic, Blind Faith, and The Rolling Stones (all albums from Beggars Banquet to Goats Head Soup), New York Citys shock/punk rockers The Plasmatics and Motörhead. ... 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. ... Rolling Stones redirects here. ... Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. ... Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert is a live album by The Rolling Stones released in 1970. ... Rolling Stones redirects here. ... Alternate cover Initially rejected cover of Beggars Banquet Beggars Banquet is an LP released in 1968 by The Rolling Stones. ... The Rolling Stones 1969 American Tour (which seems to have had no official name) was a much publicised, written about, recorded, and filmed concert tour of the United States that took place during November 1969. ...

History

Although they had begun the recording of "You Can't Always Get What You Want" in November 1968, before Beggars Banquet had been released, recording for Let It Bleed began in earnest in February 1969 and would continue sporadically until November. Brian Jones performs on only two tracks, the autoharp on "You Got the Silver" and percussion on "Midnight Rambler". His replacement Mick Taylor also plays on two tracks, "Country Honk" and "Live With Me." Keith Richards, who had already shared vocal duties with Mick Jagger on a handful of songs ("Connection", "Something Happened to Me Yesterday" and "Salt of the Earth"), sang his first solo lead vocal on a Rolling Stones recording with "You Got the Silver." This article is about the song by the Rolling Stones. ... For other persons named Brian Jones, see Brian Jones (disambiguation). ... You Got The Silver is a song by English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones off of their 1969 album Let It Bleed. ... Midnight Rambler is a song by British rock and roll band the Rolling Stones that was released on their 1969 album Let It Bleed. ... 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. ... Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English guitarist, songwriter, singer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones in 1962. ... Sir Michael Phillip Mick Jagger (born July 26, 1943) is an English rock musician, actor, songwriter, record and film producer and businessman. ...

During 1968, Richards had been hanging out in London with Gram Parsons, who had left The Byrds on the eve of their departure for a tour in the Republic of South Africa. By all accounts, Parsons had significant impact on Richards' taste in country music, and perhaps as a result of his influence, the band recorded a true honky-tonk song, "Country Honk," a more uptempo and rock and roll version of which would appear as their next single, "Honky Tonk Women." The LP track featured fiddle player Byron Berline, who worked with Parsons frequently throughout the latter's career. Parsons frequently took credit for the arrangement of "Country Honk", although both Jagger and Richards have stated that it was actually the original arrangement of the song as written and conceived while vacationing in Brazil in late 1968. In any event, Parsons had recently introduced the group to his cache of traditional country records and was at least indirectly responsible for this sea change. The singer's own cover, released on the 1976 rarities compilation Sleepless Nights, features a slightly different set of lyrics and yet another arrangement that combines elements of both Stones versions. Gram Parsons (November 5, 1946 – September 19, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. ... The Byrds (formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1964) were an American rock band. ... Honky Tonk Women was a 1969 hit song by the Rolling Stones. ... Honky Tonk Women was a 1969 hit song by the Rolling Stones. ... Byron Berline is an American fiddle player. ...

Recorded under trying circumstance owing to the band having reached the final impasse with Jones, the album has been called a great summing up of the dark underbelly of the 1960s.^{[citation needed]} In addition to being one of their all-time classics, Bleed is the second of the Stones' run of four studio LPs that are generally regarded as among their greatest achievements artistically, equalled only by the best of their great 45s from that decade. The other three albums are Beggars Banquet (1968), Sticky Fingers (1971), and Exile on Main Street (1972). Steven Van Zandt said the albums represented the "Second Great Era" of the Rolling Stones. [1] Alternate cover Initially rejected cover of Beggars Banquet Beggars Banquet is an LP released in 1968 by The Rolling Stones. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Exile on Main Street is a 1972 (see 1972 in music) album by the rock and roll band The Rolling Stones. ... Steven Van Zandt (born November 22, 1950) is an American musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer, actor, and radio disc jockey, who frequently goes by the stage names Little Steven or Miami Steve. ...

Released in December, Let It Bleed reached #1 in the UK (temporarily knocking The Beatles' Abbey Road out of the top slot) and #3 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart in the US, where it eventually went double platinum. The album was also critically well-received. The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ... Back cover The back cover of the original 1969 UK LP. Note that Her Majesty is not listed, unlike later reissues and the compact disc version—originally making it a hidden track. ... Billboard can refer to: Billboard magazine Billboard (advertising) Billboard antenna In 3D computer graphics, to billboard is to rotate an object so that it faces the viewer. ...

In 1998 Q magazine readers voted Let It Bleed the 69th greatest album of all time, while in 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 28 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2001, the TV network VH1 placed Let It Bleed at number 24 on their best album survey. In 2003, it was listed as number 32 on the List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Q is a music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom, with a circulation of 140,282 and a readership of 731,000. ... 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... In 2003, Rolling Stone published an article describing what it considered to be the top 500 music albums of all time. ...

In August 2002, this album was reissued in a new remastered CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO 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... Super Audio CD (SACD) is a read-only optical audio disc format aimed at providing much higher fidelity digital audio reproduction than the compact disc. ... A compact disc in Digipak-style packaging; seen here: Boards of Canadas 1998 release Music Has the Right to Children Digipak is a patented style of compact disc or DVD packaging, and is a registered trademark of MeadWestvaco, Inc. ... ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. ...

Cover

The cover displays a surreal sculpture designed by Robert Brownjohn. The image consists of the Let It Bleed record being played by the antique tone-arm of a turntable, which is fitted with a tall record-changer-style spindle supporting, in place of a stack of records, a number of items stacked on a dinner plate (bottom-to-top): a magnetic tape/movie reel canister labelled Stones - Let It Bleed; a clock face; a pizza; a small tyre; a cake with kitsch icing, reminiscent of art-deco-style plaster rendering; and the band itself in the form of wedding-style topping figures. The cake parts of the album cover construction were prepared by then unknown cookery writer Delia Smith [2]. The artwork is inspired by the working title of the album, which was "Automatic Changer" (source: Bill Wyman, Rolling with the Stones). A cow standing on a pole. ... Robert Brownjohn (August 8, 1925 - August 1, 1970) was a graphic designer known for blending formal graphic design concepts with wit and sixties pop culture. ... ... Tonearm redirects here. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The word spindle might (or might not) have several meanings: A spindle (shrub), a poisonous shrub or small tree of the genus Euonymus. ... A set of plates before being glazed at a pottery shop. ... Compact audio cassette Magnetic tape is a non-volatile storage medium consisting of a magnetic coating on a thin plastic strip. ... For other uses, see Reel (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Clock (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Pizza (disambiguation). ... Kitsch is a term of German origin that has been used to categorize art that is considered an inferior copy of an existing style. ... Icing can mean: icing (food) icing (shipping) icing (ice hockey) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Art Deco spire of the Chrysler Building in New York, built 1928–1930 City Hall of Buffalo, New York, an Art Deco masterpiece Art Deco was a popular design movement from 1920 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as... Render may refer to: Rendering (computer graphics), generating the pixels of an image based on a high-level description of its components XRender, or Render, an X Window System rendering extension Industrial rendering, the processing of waste animal parts to separate the fat from the bone and protein Kitchen rendering... Delia Smith on the cover of one her popular books, Delia Smiths Cookery Course. ...

The reverse of the LP sleeve shows the same "record-stack" melange partially "consumed", with a slice of the uppermost cake layer removed; the tyre hacked and nailed, bandaged and patched; film stray from the tape/film canister; and the supporting plate chipped; a slice of pizza with a bite taken lies on the shattered vinyl; along with the detached tone-arm -- as if evidence of the aftermath of a wild party. A pile of nails. ... Bandages are also used in martial arts to prevent dislocated joints. ... Chemical structure of the vinyl functional group. ...

The track listing on the record sleeve does not follow the tracklisting on the record. According to Brownjohn, he altered the track listing purely for visual reasons.

Track listing

All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted. The order in which track titles appeared on the back of the LP sleeve did not reflect their actual order of play -- not unusual in its day. The correct orders were shown on the record's label. Jagger/Richards is a songwriting team that consists of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. ...

Side one

1. "Gimme Shelter" – 4:32
   • Features Merry Clayton on backing vocals
2. "Love in Vain" (Robert Johnson) – 4:22
   • Features Ry Cooder on mandolin
3. "Country Honk" – 3:10
   • Country version of "Honky Tonk Women", features Mick Taylor on guitar
4. "Live With Me" – 3:36
   • Features both Leon Russell and Nicky Hopkins on piano with Keith Richards on bass and Mick Taylor on guitar
5. "Let It Bleed" – 5:34
   • Features Ian Stewart on piano

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Side two

1. "Midnight Rambler" – 6:57
   • Features Brian Jones on percussion
2. "You Got the Silver" – 2:54
   • Keith Richards' first solo lead vocal on a Rolling Stones song, Brian Jones plays autoharp
3. "Monkey Man" – 4:15
   • Features Nicky Hopkins on piano
4. "You Can't Always Get What You Want" – 7:30
   • Features producer Jimmy Miller on drums and Al Kooper on French horn, piano and organ

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Personnel

• Mick Jagger – vocals, harmonica, backing vocals
• Keith Richards – acoustic guitar, backing vocals, electric guitar, slide guitar, vocals, bass
• Charlie Watts – drums
• Bill Wyman – bass, autoharp, vibes
• Brian Jones - autoharp, percussion (congas)
• Mick Taylor – electric guitar, slide guitar
• Madeline Bell – backing vocals
• Byron Berline – fiddle
• Merry Clayton – vocals, backing vocals
• Ry Cooder – mandolin
• Rocky Dijon – congas, maracas
• Nicky Hopkins – piano, organ
• Bobby Keys – tenor saxophone
• Al Kooper – piano, organ, French horn
• London Bach Choir – backing vocals
• Jimmy Miller – drums, percussion, tambourine
• Nanette Newman – backing vocals
• Leon Russell – piano
• Ian Stewart – piano
• Doris Troy – backing vocals
• Tom Pollard – backing vocals

Charts

Album

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Singles

Certifications

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Trivia

• The inside of the album sleeve features the message "This record should be played loud".
• Delia Smith baked the cake featured on the album's cover
• In the video game Guitar Hero 2 the album can be seen in the room that is the background of practice mode.