Musicians: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman. Other musicians who played on the album were Ry Cooder, Jim Dickinson, Rocky Dijon, Nicky Hopkins, Bobby Keys, Jimmy Miller, Jack Nitzsche, Billy Preston, Jim Price and Ian Stewart
Released: 9 April 1971 (Atco/Atlantic Records – US release), 23 April 1971 (EMI – UK release)
Best chart performance: No. 1 in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and West Germany Sales: Over 3,400,000
Fascinating fact: The cover in Spain showed fingers in a can of treacle. It was designed by John Pasche – who produced the ‘lips and tongue’ logo concept – and Phil Jude, who would later photograph the goat’s head for the inner sleeve of the Stones’ Goat’s Head Soup.…