The lyrics include a number of drug and sexual references, including an invitation for "coke and sympathy," a reference to a "junkie nurse" and Jagger's suggestions that we all need someone to "bleed on," "cream on" and "cum on" them.

Robert Brownjohn Jagger asked artist M. C. Escher to design a cover for the album, but he declined. Robert Brownjohn then designed the cover, which displays a surreal sculpture.

Recorded sessions took place over 12 months, between November 1968, until November the following year at Olympic Studios, London, England.

December 5, 1969 Let It Bleed was released on December 5, 1969, and the Rolling Stones didn't even get to bask in the glory of its initial success. On December 6, the group hosted a free concert at Altamont Speedway.

A rolling stone gathers no moss is a proverb, first credited to Publilius Syrus, who in his Sententiae states, "People who are always moving, with no roots in one place or another, avoid responsibilities and cares." The phrase spawned a shorter mossless offshoot image, that of the rolling stone, and modern moral ...

A song that seems to hail the dropout life for those who can take it segues into compassion for those who have dropped out of bourgeois surroundings. 'Rolling Stone' is about the loss of innocence and the harshness of experience. Myths, props, and old beliefs fall away to reveal a very taxing reality.

The Beatles started recording "Let It Be" as a series of jam sessions in early 1969 at Twickenham Film Studios in London, coming off a fruitful creative period of more experimental fare like "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967) and the critically acclaimed "The White Album" (1968).

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. Active across seven decades, they are one of the most popular and enduring bands of the rock era. In the early 1960s, the band pioneered the gritty, rhythmically driven sound that came to define hard rock.

There is a story out there that says that Keith was nodding off and some blood from the needle was trickling down his arm. Someone said, “Keith, your arm is bleeding…” and he replied, “let it bleed. “ It does seem a little to coincidental to not have been planned.

The Beatles started recording "Let It Be" as a series of jam sessions in early 1969 at Twickenham Film Studios in London, coming off a fruitful creative period of more experimental fare like "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967) and the critically acclaimed "The White Album" (1968).

Let It Be topped album charts in both the US and the UK, and the "Let It Be" single and "The Long and Winding Road" also reached number one in the US. Despite its commercial success, according to Beatles Diary author Keith Badman, "reviews [were] not good".

The song has long been rumored to be about the late model and former debutante Edie Sedgwick who was mainstay of Andy Warhol's legendary Factory. In August 1965 “Like A Rolling Stone” peaked at Number Two in the charts - his highest ranking single to date.

The magazine's long-running slogan, "All the news that fits", was provided by early contributor, manager and sometime editor Susan Lydon.

The song has long been rumored to be about the late model and former debutante Edie Sedgwick who was mainstay of Andy Warhol's legendary Factory. In August 1965 “Like A Rolling Stone” peaked at Number Two in the charts - his highest ranking single to date.

Chicago blues The Rolling Stones are a British rock group, formed in 1962, that drew on Chicago blues stylings to create a unique vision of the dark side of post-1960s counterculture.

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