The band’s long-term engineer Chris Kimsey came up with the idea of finding shelved songs from previous Stones’ albums, which could be reworked. To make matters worse, Richards was trying to come off heroin, while Wood had become an addict. Neither of them was in the mood to be in a recording studio together. 'I realised that Mick had got all of the strings in his hands, and he didn’t want to let go of a single one,” wrote Richards of those days. The pair struck up a conversation.īut by 1981, things had soured between the pair. The pair had known each other for 20 years by then – they had first met in 1961 at Dartford railway station when Richards, holding his guitar case, saw Jagger with a couple of Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters albums under his arm. “It was the beginning of the 1980s when Mick started to become unbearable,” wrote Richards in his memoir Life. They were like a bitter married couple who stay on for the kids, according to Rich Cohen in The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones. Jagger and Richards hadn’t spoken in years. In 1981 the Stones had a world tour planned – but no new album to promote. It was the band’s 16th studio album, and it had a hasty and unseemly birth. To mark its 40th anniversary, Tattoo You has just been reissued with nine previously unreleased tracks (among them, cover versions of Dobie Gray’s 1973 hit ‘Drift Away’ and Jimmy Reed’s 1963 blues classic ‘Shame, Shame, Shame’, plus a reggae-arranged version of ‘Start Me Up’.) “I just can’t seem to find my way,” Jagger sang on the masterful ballad, ‘Worried About You’.

The rolling stones tattoo you songs