Rocks Off

"Rocks Off"
Japanese single picture sleeve
Song by the Rolling Stones
from the album Exile on Main St.
Released12 May 1972 (1972-05-12)
RecordedJuly 1971 – March 1972
Genre
Length4:32
LabelRolling Stones Records
Songwriter(s)Jagger/Richards
Producer(s)Jimmy Miller

"Rocks Off" is the opening song on the Rolling Stones' 1972 double album Exile on Main St. Recorded between July 1971 and March 1972, "Rocks Off" is one of the songs on the album that was partially recorded at Villa Nellcôte, a house Keith Richards rented in the south of France during the summer and autumn of 1971. Overdubs and final mixing for the song were later done at Sunset Sound studios in Los Angeles, California between December 1971 and March 1972.

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