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| "Memo from Turner" | ||||
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| Single by Mick Jagger | ||||
| from the album Performance | ||||
| B-side | "Natural Magic" | |||
| Released | 23 October 1970 | |||
| Recorded | September 1968, Olympic Studios, London | |||
| Genre | Blues rock[1] | |||
| Length | 4:09 | |||
| Label | Decca Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Mick Jagger, Keith Richards | |||
| Producer(s) | Jack Nitzsche | |||
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| "Memo from Turner" | |
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| Song by The Rolling Stones | |
| from the album Metamorphosis | |
| Released | 6 June 1975 |
| Recorded | August 1968, Olympic Studios, London |
| Length | 2:45 |
| Songwriter(s) | Jagger/Richards |
| Producer(s) | Jimmy Miller |
"Memo from Turner" is a solo single by Mick Jagger, featuring slide guitar by Ry Cooder, from the soundtrack of Performance, in which Jagger played the role of Turner, a reclusive rock star. It was re-released in October 2007 on a 17-song retrospective compilation album The Very Best of Mick Jagger, making a re-appearance as a Jagger solo effort. After its original release in 1970, it was included on Rolling Stones compilations, such as Singles Collection: The London Years as a track credited to the Jagger/Richards songwriting partnership. "Memo from Turner" was ranked No. 92 in the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs list of Rolling Stone.[2]
Music critic Robert Christgau has said, "Jagger's version of Jagger–Richard's scabrous, persona-twisted "Memo From Turner" is his envoi to the 60s."[3]
- ^ "Memo from Turner by the Rolling Stones – Track Info | AllMusic". AllMusic.
- ^ "Rolling Stone – The Greatest Guitar Songs". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 30 May 2008. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link). Retrieved 24 January 2011. "Guitar virtuoso Ry Cooder, who played on the Stones' Let It Bleed, accused Keith Richards of stealing his open-G tuning technique on singles like 'Honky Tonk Women'. Cooder's jittery slide guitar defines Jagger's first solo recording, which was written for his film role as a decadent rock star in 1970's Performance." - ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: P". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved 10 March 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.