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Wild Horses by The Rolling Stones

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The Rolling Stones Is An English Rock Band Formed In London In 1962. Active For Six Decades They Are One Of The Most Popular And Enduring Bands Of The Rock Era. In The Early 1960s The Rolling Stones Pioneered The Gritty Rhythmically Driven Sound That Came To Define Hard Rock. Their First Stable Line-Up Consisted Of Vocalist Mick Jagger Multi-Instrumentalist Brian Jones Guitarist Keith Richards Bassist Bill Wyman And Drummer Charlie Watts. During Their Formative Years Jones Was The Primary Leader He Assembled The Band Named It Got Them Gigs And Drove Their Sound And Image. After Andrew Loog Oldham Became The Group's Manager In 1963 He Encouraged Them To Write Their Own Songs. Jagger And Richards Became The Primary Creative Force Behind The Band Alienating Jones Who Had Developed A Drug Addiction That Interfered With His Ability To Contribute Meaningfully. Rooted In Blues And Early Rock And Roll The Rolling Stones Started Out Playing Covers And Were At The Forefront Of The British Invasion In 1964 Becoming Identified With The Youthful And Rebellious Counterculture Of The 1960s. They Then Found Greater Success With Their Own Material As " I Can't Get No Satisfaction" 1965 "Get Off Of My Cloud" 1965 And "Paint It Black" 1966 Became International Number-One Hits. Aftermath 1966 – Their First Entirely Original Album – Is Considered By The Daily Telegraph To Be The Most Important Of Their Formative Records. In 1967 They Had The Double-Sided Hit "Ruby Tuesday"/"Let's Spend The Night Together" And Experimented With Psychedelic Rock On Their Satanic Majesties Request. They Returned To Their Rhythm And Blues Roots With Hit Songs Such As "Jumpin' Jack Flash" 1968 And "Honky Tonk Women" 1969 And Albums Such As Beggars Banquet 1968 Featuring "Sympathy For The Devil" And Let It Bleed 1969 Featuring "You Can't Always Get What You Want" And "Gimme Shelter". Let It Bleed Was The First Of Five Consecutive Number-One Albums In The UK. Jones Left The Band Shortly Before His Death In 1969 Having Been Replaced By Guitarist Mick Taylor. That Year They Were First Introduced On Stage As "The Greatest Rock And Roll Band In The World". Sticky Fingers 1971 Which Yielded "Brown Sugar" And Included The First Usage Of Their Tongue And Lips Logo Was Their First Of Eight Consecutive Number-One Studio Albums In The US. Exile On Main St. 1972 Featuring "Tumbling Dice" And Goats Head Soup 1973 Yielding The Hit Ballad "Angie" Were Also Best Sellers. Taylor Was Replaced By Ron Wood In 1974. The Band Continued To Release Successful Albums Including Their Two Largest Sellers Some Girls 1978 Featuring "Miss You" And Tattoo You 1981 Featuring "Start Me Up". Steel Wheels 1989 Was Widely Considered A Comeback Album And Was Followed By Voodoo Lounge 1994 A Worldwide Number-One Album. Both Releases Were Promoted By Large Stadium And Arena Tours As The Stones Continued To Be A Huge Concert Attraction By 2007 They Had Recorded The All-Time Highest-Grossing Concert Tour Three Times And As Recently As 2021 They Were The Highest-Earning Live Act Of The Year. From Wyman's Departure In 1993 To Watts' Death In 2021 The Band Continued As A Four-Piece Core With Darryl Jones Playing Bass On Tour And On Most Studio Recordings While Steve Jordan Became Their Touring Drummer Following Watts' Death. Their 2016 Album Blue & Lonesome Became Their Twelfth UK Number-One Album. The Rolling Stones' Estimated Record Sales Of 200 Million Make Them One Of The Best-Selling Music Artists Of All Time. The Band Has Won Three Grammy Awards And A Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. They Were Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame In 1989 And The UK Music Hall Of Fame In 2004. Billboard Magazine And Rolling Stone Have Ranked The Band As One Of The Greatest Of All Time. Full Wikipedia Article Https //en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones Studio Albums
The Rolling Stones / England's Newest Hit Makers 1964 12 X 5 1964 The Rolling Stones No. 2 / The Rolling Stones Now! 1965 Out Of Our Heads 1965 December's Children And Everybody's 1965 Aftermath 1966 Between The Buttons 1967 Their Satanic Majesties Request 1967 Beggars Banquet 1968 Let It Bleed 1969 Sticky Fingers 1971 Exile On Main St. 1972 Goats Head Soup 1973 It's Only Rock 'n Roll 1974 Black And Blue 1976 Some Girls 1978 Emotional Rescue 1980 Tattoo You 1981 Undercover 1983 Dirty Work 1986 Steel Wheels 1989 Voodoo Lounge 1994 Bridges To Babylon 1997 A Bigger Bang 2005 Blue & Lonesome 2016 Hackney Diamonds 2023

Frogtoon Music - Song Info: Wild Horses

"Wild Horses" Is A Song By The Rolling Stones From Their 1971 Album Sticky Fingers Rolling Stone Ranked It At #334 In Its "500 Greatest Songs Of All Time" List In 2004. Originally Recorded Over A Three Day Period At Muscle Shoals Sound Studio In Alabama During December 2-4 1969 The Song Was Not Released Until Over A Year Later Due To Legal Wranglings With The Band's Former Label.
Prior To Its Release On "Sticky Fingers" Gram Parsons Convinced Jagger And Richards To Allow Him To Record "Wild Horses" With His Band The Flying Burrito Brothers. While The Rolling Stones Had Already Laid The Track To Tape The Burrito Brothers' Version Was Actually The First To Be Released Appearing On Their Second Album Burrito Deluxe In April 1970- One Year Before "Sticky Fingers." Released As The Second U.S.-Only Single In June 1971 "Wild Horses" Reached #28 On The Singles Chart. Although Popular At The Stones' Live Shows "Wild Horses" Has Only Been Released In A Reworked Version On The 1995 Acoustic/live Album Stripped. It Has Proven To Be A Popular Cover Song For Other Artists Eventually Leading The Rolling Stones To Re-Release It As A Single In 1996. It Has Been Covered By Leon Russell The Cranberries Elvis Costello Neil Young Old And In The Way The Sundays Guns N' Roses Bush Labelle The Lovemongers With Chris Cornell Jewel Dave Matthews Garbage Charlotte Martin Chantal Kreviazuk Alicia Keys Ft. Adam Levine Tre Lux Iron & Wine Stone Sour Honeytribe Sheryl Crow Deacon Blue Summerhill Elisa And Natasha Bedingfield. Melanie Shafika & Otis Clay. The Sundays' Version Was Used In A Long-Running Budweiser Beer Commercial In The Early 1990s Featuring Slow-Motion Footage Of Galloping Clydesdale Horses. The Version Was Also Featured In The 1996 Thriller Fear And A Buffy The Vampire Slayer Episode The Prom.

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