Name | Live with Me |
---|---|
Artist | The Rolling Stones |
Album | Let It Bleed |
Released | 5 December 1969 |
Track no | 4 |
Recorded | 24 May 1969 |
Genre | Rock |
Length | 3:33 |
Writer | Jagger/Richards |
Label | Decca Records/ABKCO |
Producer | Jimmy Miller |
Prev | "Country Honk" |
Prev no | 3 |
Next | "Let It Bleed" |
Next no | 5 |
"Live with Me" is a song by the Rolling Stones from their classic album Let It Bleed, released in November 1969. The song is unique in a number of respects: (a) It was one of the first recorded contributions by guitarist Mick Taylor, who joined the band in June, 1969 (the others being "Country Honk" from the same album and the single, "Honky Tonk Women"). (b) It was the first song on which guitarist Keith Richards is credited as playing bass. Richards' muscular approach to the instrument is a marked departure from that of Stones bassist Bill Wyman. (To get a sense of how Richards' playing differs from that of Wyman, listen to his contribution to "Yer Blues" as performed by The Dirty Mac on the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus and to "Casino Boogie" on Exile on Main Street.) (c) It marks the first time the Rolling Stones would record with tenor saxophonist Bobby Keys, who would contribute notable solos to other Stones songs, including their 1971 hit, "Brown Sugar". (d) It marks the only time Leon Russell would play with the Stones; Russell and Nicky Hopkins both contributed piano to the piece.
Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Live with Me" was recorded on 24 May 1969. Since Taylor joined the band some weeks later, his guitar part was presumably dubbed over the basic track.
It is said that the song's rather lewd lyrics were the reason why the London Bach Choir asked not to be credited for their contribution to "You Can't Always Get What You Want". Jagger asks for "a woman's touch" to improve the conditions in his squalid apartment. The poet X.J. Kennedy has suggested that the lyrics are part of a tradition of responses -- beginning with John Donne and Sir Walter Raleigh and continuing through C. Day Lewis -- to Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love". Marlowe's poem begins "Come live with me and be my love". Read as a variation on Marlowe's theme, Jagger's lyrics ("They queue up for the bathroom / round about 7:35 / Don't you think we need a woman's touch / to make it come alive?") come off as quite witty indeed -- especially in the context of Richards and Taylor's raunchy, Chuck Berry-infused playing.
Although it was never released as a single, it is a popular live staple, appearing on the live albums Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! and No Security. The song was performed live with Christina Aguilera for the shooting of the documentary Shine a Light. A cover version was recorded by Girlschool.Rhett Forrester covered the song on his 1984 album Gone With the Wind.
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