Doo
Doo Doo Doo Doo
(Heartbreaker)
Composers: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: November
1972-January 1973 & May-June 1973
Recording locations: Dynamic
Sound Studios, Kingston, Jamaica; Village Recorders,
Los Angeles,
USA; & Island
Recording Studios, London, England
Producer: Jimmy
Miller
Chief engineers:
Andy
Johns & Baker Bigsby
Performed onstage: 1973,
1975, 1994-95, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2015, 2017, 2019,
2021
Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Keith
Richards
Electric guitars: Mick
Taylor (incl. solos) & Keith Richards
Lead vocal: Mick
Jagger
Background vocals: Mick
Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor &
Billy
Preston
Piano: Billy
Preston
Clavinet:
Billy
Preston
Synthesizer: Billy
Preston
Saxophones:
Bobby
Keys & Jim
Horn
Trumpet: Chuck
Finley
Congas: Rebop
Percussion:
Pascal
The police
in New York City
They
chased a boy right through the park
And in a
case of mistaken identity
They put a
bullet through his heart
Heartbreakers,
with your .44
I want to
tear your world apart
You
heartbreaker with your .44
I want to
tear your world apart
A
10 year old girl on the street corner
Sticking
needles in her arm
She died
in the dirt of an alleyway
Her mother
said she had no chance, no chance
Heartbreaker,
heartbreaker
She stuck
the pins right in her heart
Heartbreaker,
pain maker
Stole the
love right out of your heart
Oh
yeah (doo - doo doo doo doo doo doo) - oh yeah
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo)
I
want to tear your world apart (Doo doo doo
doo doo doo)
Oh
yeah (doo - doo doo doo doo doo doo) - oh yeah
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo)
I
want to tear your world apart (Doo doo doo
doo doo doo)
Heartbreaker,
heartbreaker
You stole
the love right out of my heart
Heartbreaker,
heartbreaker
I want to
tear that world, I want to tear that world
Ah
yeah, ah yeah
I want to
tear that world apart
Heartbreaker,
heartbreaker
You stole
the love right, you stole the love right...
(Doo
- doo doo doo doo doo doo) Ah yeah
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo)
You
shot the kid, he had no chance (Doo doo doo
doo doo doo)
Ah
yeah (doo - doo doo doo doo doo doo) - ah yeah
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo)
You
stuck the pins right in her heart (Doo doo doo
doo doo doo)
Ah
yeah (doo - doo doo doo doo doo doo) - you heartbreaker
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo)
I
want to tear that world apart (Doo doo doo
doo doo doo)
(Doo - doo doo
doo doo doo doo)
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo)
(Doo doo doo
doo doo doo)
(Doo - doo doo
doo doo doo doo)
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo)
(Doo doo doo
doo doo doo)
(Doo - doo doo
doo doo doo doo)
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo)
TrackTalk
I
don’t really remember (writing) it that
clearly. I remember writing the lyrics, and I think Keith and I
contributed to the music thing of it, the chord structure and
stuff.
- Mick Jagger,
2020
Yeah,
lovely riff, man. I was very happy to
kick that one out. I think I had the riff in my head and it came
together in the studio with Billy Preston and Charlie. A lot of
tracks
really weren’t thought about or worked out much before we
actually get
in there.
- Keith Richards,
2020
Heartbreaker
has Billy Preston on keyboards,
Mick Taylor on wah-wah, and me on bass.
- Keith Richards,
1973
That
was about heavy-handed policing, and someone said to me the
other
day, That’s funny. That
reflects on now. I said, Well, when has
policing not been heavy-handed? I mean, that was very
much part of the
moment.
- Mick Jagger,
2020
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