Moonlight Mile (song)

"Moonlight Mile"
Song by the Rolling Stones
from the album Sticky Fingers
Released23 April 1971 (1971-04-23)
RecordedOctober 1970
Genre
Length5:56
LabelRolling Stones/Virgin
Songwriter(s)Jagger/Richards
Producer(s)Jimmy Miller

"Moonlight Mile" is a song recorded by the Rolling Stones. Credited to Jagger-Richards, it was written by Mick Jagger[2] with assistance from Mick Taylor.[3][4][5] It appears as the closing track on their 1971 album Sticky Fingers. The song features multiple musicians playing alternate instruments due to the frequent absence of Richards during recording sessions of the period.

"Moonlight Mile" has been largely considered an under-appreciated work of the band, with music critics Bill Janovitz and Robert Christgau praising the track's composition.

  1. ^ "Top 100 Rolling Stones Songs". Ultimate Classic Rock. 12 July 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  2. ^ Time is on our side (19 March 2000). "Moonlight Mile". reviews of "Moonlight Mile"; quote from Life Magazine. Rolling Stones Mobile Unit, Mick Jagger's home, Newbury, England & Olympic Sound Studios, London. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
  3. ^ Fanelli, Damian (3 May 2012). "Interview: Former Rolling Stones Guitarist Mick Taylor Discusses Gear, Bluesbreakers, Iridium and The Stones". Guitar World. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  4. ^ "Moonlight Mile track talk". That's where Moonlight Mile came from. But Mick first sang it to me in a first-class railway compartment on the way from London to Bristol. Then he had the idea of embellishing it with strings. I contributed the riff that Paul Buckmaster's strings are based on - that ethereal, unresolved ending. (2011)
  5. ^ "Interview With Mick Taylor". Classic Bands. It's not rubbish to say that I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs...