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Single:
Wild Horses entered the Australian singles chart* on 30 August 1971 and peaked at #96.
Album:
The song is on Sticky Fingers which entered the Australian albums chart* on 5 July 1971 and was #1 for two weeks.
Songwriters:
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
Producer:
Jimmy Miller
Record label of Australian release:
Rolling Stones
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
BONUS TRACK BELOW: Wild Horses by Gram Parsons and The Flying Burrito Brothers
Wikipedia:
In the liner notes to the 1993 Rolling Stones compilation album Jump Back, Jagger states, “I remember we sat around originally doing this with Gram Parsons, and I think his version came out slightly before ours. Everyone always says this was written about Marianne, but I don’t think it was; that was all well over by then. But I was definitely very inside this piece emotionally.” Richards says, “If there is a classic way of Mick and me working together this is it. I had the riff and chorus line, Mick got stuck into the verses. Just like Satisfaction, Wild Horses was about the usual thing of not wanting to be on the road, being a million miles from where you want to be.”
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Horses_(Rolling_Stones_song)
Songfacts:
This was first released by Gram Parsons’ Flying Burrito Brothers in 1970. The Stones’ version was written in 1969, but had to wait for Sticky Fingers in 1971.
Parsons was good friends with Keith Richards, and the musicians often cited each other as an influence. Said Parsons: “I picked up some rock and roll from Keith Richards, and Mick Jagger knows an awful lot about country music. I learned a lot about singing from Mick.”
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/the-rolling-stones/wild-horses
Lyrics:
Childhood living is easy to do
The things you wanted I bought them for you
Graceless lady you know who I am
You know I can’t let you slide through my hands
Wild horses couldn’t drag me away
Wild, wild horses, couldn’t drag me away
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BONUS SONG: Wild Horses by The Flying Burrito Brothers
Gram Parsons – vocals, guitar, piano
Chris Hillman – vocals, bass, mandolin
Sneaky Pete Kleinow – pedal steel guitar
Bernie Leadon – guitar
Michael Clarke – drums
Leon Russell – piano
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