Let It Bleed | ||||
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Studio album by The Rolling Stones | ||||
Released | 5 December 1969 | |||
Recorded | November 1968, February–July, October-November 1969 | |||
Studio | Olympic Studios, London; Elektra Studios, Los Angeles | |||
Genre | Hard rock, blues, country blues | |||
Length | 42:21 | |||
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Decca (UK) London (US) |
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Producer | Jimmy Miller | |||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
Entertainment Weekly | A |
The Great Rock Discography | 9/10 |
Music Story | |
MusicHound Rock | 5/5 |
NME | 9/10 |
Rolling Stone | |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide |
Let It Bleed is the eighth British and tenth American album by English rock band the Rolling Stones, released in December 1969 by Decca Records in the United Kingdom and London Records in the United States. Released shortly after the band's 1969 American Tour, it is the follow-up to 1968's Beggars Banquet and the last album by the band to feature Brian Jones as well as the first to feature Mick Taylor.
Although the Stones had begun the recording of "You Can't Always Get What You Want" in November 1968, before Beggars Banquet had been released, recording for Let It Bleed began in earnest in February 1969 and continued sporadically until early November. Brian Jones performs on only two tracks: playing the autoharp on "You Got the Silver", and percussion on "Midnight Rambler". His replacement, Mick Taylor, plays guitar on two tracks, "Country Honk" and "Live with Me", as well as on "Honky Tonk Women" which was recorded during the Let It Bleed sessions. Keith Richards, who had already shared vocal duties with Mick Jagger on "Connection" and sung separate lead vocals on parts of "Something Happened to Me Yesterday" and "Salt of the Earth", sang his first solo lead vocal on a Rolling Stones recording with "You Got the Silver".The London Bach Choir sang on "You Can't Always Get What You Want" but publicly disassociated itself from the album, citing what author Stephen Davis terms its "relentless drug ambience".