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It's Only Rock 'N' RollIt's Only Rock 'n' Roll is an album by The Rolling Stones, first released on 18 October, 1974. It was the last album the band recorded with guitarist Mick Taylor, and the first with guitarist Ron Wood (albeit uncredited, as he was still 'officially' with The Faces). It was also the first album whose production was credited to the Glimmer Twins (ie, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards), although the Stones' 1967 LP Their Satanic Majesties Request had been produced by the band. From this point on all further Stones albums would be co-produced at least by the Glimmer Twins. This was also the only one of the band's 1970s albums they did not back with a major tour. The album was recorded in November 1973 and January 1974 at Musicland Studios, Munich, in what was then West Germany; the engineers were Andy Johns and Keith Harwood. Extensive 'mixing' sessions, where much overdubbing was done, took place in April and May at Jagger's house Stargroves and at Island Studios in London, England. The title track, although officially credited to the Jagger-Richards songwriting team, was done by Mick Jagger and Ron Wood at Wood's house in London and at one point was intended for Wood's first solo album; Jagger and Richards (later overdubbed on rhythm guitar) are the only Stones present on the song. As with most Stones albums, some songs were culled from previous sessions. Time Waits For No One had been written as far back as 1969, where it had been put forward as a contender for Let It Bleed. During the sessions the song Black Limousine was demoed; although rejected, it would reappear in different form on the band's 1981 album Tattoo You. The Rolling Stones at this time were Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman. Other musicians appearing on the album were Faces members Ron Wood on guitar and Kenny Jones on drums; bass guitarist Willie Weeks; keyboardist Billy Preston; percussionist Ray Cooper; pianist Nicky Hopkins; the soul group Blue Magic on backing vocals (on If You Really Want To Be My Friend); and Stones road manager and pianist Ian 'Stu' Stewart. David Bowie is buried in the mix on backing vocals on the title track. The album cover was painted by artist Guy Peellaert, who had just published the collection Rock Dreams. This had so impressed Jagger that he commissioned the artist to do the cover of the band's next album (despite Peellaert's depiction of the Stones in the book as Nazis and transexuals). Jagger then told his friend Bowie about the cover; Bowie promptly asked Peellaert to do his next album cover as well. The Stones working as slowly as they did, Bowie's next album - Diamond Dogs - was in the shops well before them. It's Only Rock 'n' Roll did not sell as well as the Stones' previous few albums, possibly due to the title track's relative poor performance on the single charts. It was estimated to have sold about 2 million copies worldwide through 2000. Critical reaction, then and now, was mixed. Some dismiss it as part of the band's mid '70s 'malaise' between Exile On Main Street and Some Girls. Others point to the complex arrangements of Time Waits For No One and Fingerprint File, and the album's preoccupation with lyrical themes such as death, ageing, paranoia, vulnerability and the fickleness of fame, as a new kind of maturity for the band and in particular Jagger. Track listing All officially credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards except where noted. - If You Can't Rock Me (3.46)
- Ain't Too Proud To Beg (3.30) (Whitfield, Holland; first recorded by The Temptations)
- It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It) (5.07)
- Till The Next Goodbye (4.37)
- Time Waits For No One (6.37)
- Luxury (5.00)
- Dance Little Sister (4.11)
- If You Really Want To Be My Friend (6.16)
- Short And Curlies (2.43)
- Fingerprint File (6.33)
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