This Day In Music

The first album released by the new Rolling Stones Records label, Sticky Fingers made its mark on several historic fronts. The new label introduced the new logo for the Stones, the licking-tongue and lips which would be their infamous trademark image for the next fifty years. As well, another infamous image is the album cover itself. The image of a male crotch and prominent penis certainly showed that the Stones were declaring their independence from their previous album cover controversies. However, as usual, the main impact from the Stones was the music. The first single from the album, Brown Sugar, was released on April 13 1971 and made its impact immediately. This song is the Stones. Bluesy, trademark guitar riffs from Keith Richards, lyrics alluding to illicit sex, girls, and giving off imagery that is dirty, seedy and dark - this song had it all.

This Day In Music

March 15, 1968 saw The Rolling Stones begin the recording sessions that would result in their seventh studio album, Beggars Banquet. This would start the Stones on a six year run of creativity that rivals any other period of music production of the rock era. The period of 1968-1974 would see the Stones turn out classics such as Let It Bleed, Exile on Main Street, and Sticky Fingers. But it all started with Beggars Banquet. Starting their turn into country inspired rock, away from the psychedelic influences of their earlier records, this album is known for the burning, legendary lead track Sympathy For The Devil. But it is the less famous classics such as Salt Of The Earth and Factory Girl that shows how brave and confident the Stones were at this time in their writing. Reinforced by Street Fighting Man, to make doubters realize they still had the rock power they were known for, this album was a signal of what was soon to come.