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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 | |||
Mick Jagger singles chronology | ||||
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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]
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link). Retrieved 2011-01-24. "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."