Wild Horses

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Written by: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
Produced by: Jimmy Miller
Released: April '71 on Rolling Stones
Charts: 8 weeks
Top spot: No. 28

Richards wrote this acoustic ballad about leaving his wife Anita and young son Marlon as the Stones prepared for their first American tour in three years. Stones sidekick Ian Stewart refused to play the minor chords required, so Memphis musical maverick Jim Dickinson filled in on upright piano at the Muscle Shoals, Alabama, recording session for Sticky Fingers.

Appears on: Sticky Fingers (Virgin)

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