Sticky Fingers was the 9th British and 11th American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in April 1971. It is the band’s first album of the 1970s and its first release on the band’s newly formed label, Rolling Stones Records, after having been contracted since 1963 with Decca Records in the U.K. and London Records in the U.S.
Sticky Fingers’ album cover photo of a male model’s crotch clad in tight blue jeans was assumed by many to be an image of Mick Jagger. However, the people actually...
In Spain, the original cover was censored by the Franco regime and replaced with a “Can of fingers” cover, designed by John Pasche and Phil Jude. The song “Sister Morphine”...
Mick Taylor’s First Photo By: Monitor Picture Library/Photoshot/Getty Images
Sticky Fingers is Mick Taylor’s first full-length appearance on a Rolling Stones album, the first Rolling Stones album not to feature any contributions from guitarist and founder Brian Jones and...
Non-German Number 1 Photo By: Chris Walter/WireImage/Getty Images
Sticky Fingers hit Number 1 on the British charts in May 1971, remaining there for four weeks. In the U.S., the album hit Number 1 within days of release and...
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking Photo By: GAB Archive/Redferns/Getty Images
In a 1979 interview Mick Taylor said, “The jam at the end just happened by accident. Towards the end of the song I just felt like carrying on playing. Everybody...