Name | Let It Bleed |
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Type | studio |
Artist | The Rolling Stones |
Cover | letitbleedRS.jpg |
Released | 5 December 1969 |
Recorded | November 1968, February–November 1969, Olympic Studios, London, England |
Genre | Blues-rock, rock and roll, hard rock |
Length | 42:13 |
Language | English |
Label | Decca |
Producer | Jimmy Miller |
Last album | Beggars Banquet(1968) |
This album | Let It Bleed(1969) |
Next album | Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert(1970) |
Let It Bleed is the eighth British and tenth American album by English rock band The Rolling Stones, released in December 1969 by Decca Records in the United Kingdom and London Records in the United States. Released shortly after the band's 1969 American Tour, it is the follow-up to 1968's Beggars Banquet and the last album by the band to feature Brian Jones as well as the first to feature Mick Taylor.
Released in December, Let It Bleed reached #1 in the UK (temporarily knocking The Beatles' Abbey Road out of the top slot) and #3 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart in the US, where it eventually went 2x platinum.
The album was released in US as an LP record, reel to reel tape and 8-track cartridge in 1969, and as a remastered CD in 1986. In August 2002, it was reissued in a remastered CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records, and once more in 2010 by Universal Music Enterprises in a Japanese only SHM-SACD version.
Let It Bleed is the second of the Stones' run of four studio LPs that are generally regarded as among their greatest achievements artistically, equalled only by the best of their great 45s from that decade. The other three albums are Beggars Banquet (1968), Sticky Fingers (1971) and Exile on Main Street (1972).
In 1998 Q magazine readers voted Let It Bleed the 69th greatest album of all time, while in 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 28 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2001, the TV network VH1 placed Let It Bleed at number 24 on their best album survey. In 1997 it was voted 27th greatest album by The Guardian. In 2003, it was listed as number 32 on the List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
The cover displays a surreal sculpture designed by Robert Brownjohn. The image consists of the Let It Bleed record being played by the tone-arm of an antique phonograph, and a record-changer spindle supporting several items stacked on a plate in place of a stack of records: a tape canister labelled Stones - Let It Bleed, a clock face, a pizza, a tyre and a cake with elaborate icing topped by figurines representing the band. The cake parts of the construction were prepared by then-unknown cookery writer Delia Smith. The reverse of the LP sleeve shows the same "record-stack" melange in a state of disarray. The artwork was inspired by the working title of the album, which was Automatic Changer.
The album cover for Let It Bleed was among the ten chosen by the Royal Mail for a set of "Classic Album Cover" postage stamps issued in January 2010.
All songs written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.
†Early US editions of the album credit the song using Johnson's pseudonym Woody Payne.
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;Singles {|class="wikitable" ! Year ! Single ! Chart ! Position |- | 1973 | "You Can't Always Get What You Want" | The Billboard Hot 100 |align="center"| 42 |- |}
!Country | !Provider | !Music recording sales certification |
United States | 2× Platinum | |
United Kingdom | Platinum | |
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