Composers: Mick
Jagger
& Keith Richards
Recording
date: December 1982-August
1983
Recording
locations: Pathé
Marconi Studios, Paris, France; Compass
Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas; & The Hit Factory,
New York City
Producers: The
Glimmer
Twins & Chris
Kimsey
Chief engineer:
Chris
Kimsey
Never performed
onstage
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Simmons (electronic) drums: Sly Dunbar
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitars: Jim Barber, Keith Richards &
Ron Wood
Vocals: Mick
Jagger
Keyboards: Chuck
Leavell
Horns: CHOPS
(The Sugarhill Horn Section)
Percussion (bongos, congas, etc.): Sly Dunbar
and/or Martin
Ditcham and/or
Brahms
Coundoul and/or Moustapha Cisse
TrackTalk
I had made out a very honest burden of mind before everyone had arrived one night. It was just Charlie and Bill. And one of our roadies called Jim Barber, he was playing guitar on it too. And I just started playing this riff I had, with this middle part, I didn't have any words to it and then I just suddenly started RAPPING out these words which are the ones you hear. And (laughs) - well there was this scandalous, murderous story in France - it was a TRUE story - about this Japanese guy who murdered this girl and it sort of captured the imagination of the French public, and the Japanese. The Russians wanted to make a MOVIE out of it. So that was the first bit and then I started becoming more light-hearted about it, movies and all. But it's very, it's very... it came out as a sort of anti-gratuitous cinema of violence. And it's a kind of anti-violent thing. But it's also a good dance track.
I'm not a
great
rap(per)... It's just made
up on the spot as well. It's completely extemporized, as well,
most of
it. A couple words I cleaned up; I don't mean clean up, just
made
better
sounds. That was just rap off the top of my head. I didn't write
it
down,
even.