Composers: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: November 1993-April 1994
Recording locations: Windmill Lane
Recording, Dublin, Ireland & A&M Recording Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Producers: Don
Was & The Glimmer
Twins
Chief engineer: Don
Smith
Performed onstage: 1994-95,
1998, 2006-07
Line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Darryl
Jones
Acoustic guitars:
Keith Richards & Ron Wood
Electric guitars:
Keith Richards & Ron Wood
Lead vocals:
Mick
Jagger
Background vocals:
Mick
Jagger, Keith Richards, Bernard Fowler
& Ivan
Neville
Wurlitzer piano:
Chuck
Leavell
Harmonica: Mick
Jagger
Maracas: Mick
Jagger
TrackTalk
Hybrids, ones (that Mick and I wrote) together (include): Love Is Strong, Got Me Rocking, and Sparks Will Fly.
When you get a good playback, nobody says
anything; you just nod at each other... Love Is Strong (was
like
that). That's the band; sounds like 'em every time. We didn't have to
fiddle
with it at all.
We ran through it a bunch of times and I was
playing harmonica, and I started singing through the harmonica mike, so
you get this strange sort of sound. And then I started singing down an
octave, so you get this kind of breathy, sexy tone. When we were in
rehearsal,
I'd come in quite early in the afternoon and put on a bunch of CDs and
play harmonica along with them for my homework, 'cause like any
instrument,
you can't just pick it up and play it. It was good to put harmonica on
a track like this. You always think of playing it on a 12-bar blues,
and
it's kind of fun to put it on one which isn't. It's good to work with
another
sequence.
I started that one. To me, it's intimately
related to Wicked As It Seems,
which
I did last year. All of our songs are like... this one's the cousin of
that one. They're all offshoots of themes and motifs.