Don't Be a Stranger
Composers:
Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date:
June-October 1979 &
August-September 2011
Recording locations: Pathé
Marconi Studios, Paris, France; La Fourchette, Pocé sur
Cisse, France;
Electric Lady Studio, NY and/or Berkeley Street Studios,
Santa Monica,
USA
Producers: The
Glimmer Twins, Chris
Kimsey & Don
Was
Chief engineers:
Chris
Kimsey, Krish Sharma
& Matt Clifford
Mixer: Bob
Clearmountain
Never performed onstage
(Note:
actually an EMOTIONAL RESCUE sessions outtake)
Line-up:
Drums:
Charlie
Watts
Bass: Don Was
Acoustic
guitars: Ron
Wood & Keith Richards
Electric
guitar: Keith Richards
Vocals: Mick
Jagger
Count-in: Ron Wood
Harmonica: Sugar
Blue
Marimbas:
Bill Wyman
Percussion (incl. tambourine & congas): Mick
Jagger, Keith Richards & Matt Clifford
One, two, three,
four
One, two...
Well I haven't seen your face for years
I thought you had just disappeared
Don't you worry
What are friends for?
You can call me up most anytime
I never go to bed ‘til 5
Don't be a stranger
Just knock on my door
I heard you're in the south of Spain
Never coming back again
Don't be a stranger
A stranger no more
Don't be a stranger
Just knock on my door
Well the key is hanging on the chain
Are you still drinking the same champagne
While I've been waiting
On the 15th floor?
Have a glass while I light the fire
You've still got those hungry eyes
Don't be a stranger
Just knock on my door
You can tell me about your escapades
The story of your lost decade
Don't be a stranger
A stranger no more
Don't be a stranger
Just knock on my door
Hey baby
Do you still drive the young men wild?
You were all so very versatile
I need your loving
Like never before
Well you walk with the same old slouch
I still got the same old couch
You see that painting
That you always adored
And I love you sitting in my chair
Come closer, let me smell your hair
Don't be a stranger
A stranger no more
Don't be a stranger
Just knock on my door
Don't be a stranger
Don't be a stranger
Don't be a stranger
Don't be a stranger
Don't be a stranger
Don't be a stranger
TrackTalk
Some of (the outtakes) were almost
done, like So Young, and then
others were really not done at all, like When
You're Gone and Don't
Be a Stranger didn't have anything.
-
Mick Jagger, 2011
This has a Latin tinge. Originally, there was no melody or lyrics.
So it had to be built up from scratch. At first, I was like, I can't do anything with this,
but then you chip away at it and something comes.
-
Mick Jagger, 2011
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