Professor Of Rock has released the video below, along with the following introduction…
“Coming up, a candidate for the most famous #2 hit of all-time and the song that was almost lost in the vaults: ‘Start Me Up’… It was written by The Rolling Stones in the 70s. In fact, the Stones did about 70 takes of ‘Start Me Up’ and most of them were a very sad attempt at creating a reggae song. They crashed and burned, but on one of the takes, they did a straight-ahead rock version. Well, in the 80s, The Rolling Stones really needed a hit and songs for their new album. Luckily, their engineer remembered the one take they did that was a diamond in the rough and knew it could be a hit. But going back to the vaults, it was like searching for a needle in a haystack. It’s the story of a song that sat on the shelf for years, and then the Stones had to be convinced to play it straight… Find out what happened next on Professor Of Rock.”
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“Coming up, a candidate for the most famous #2 hit of all-time and the song that was almost lost in the vaults: ‘Start Me Up’… It was written by The Rolling Stones in the 70s. In fact, the Stones did about 70 takes of ‘Start Me Up’ and most of them were a very sad attempt at creating a reggae song. They crashed and burned, but on one of the takes, they did a straight-ahead rock version. Well, in the 80s, The Rolling Stones really needed a hit and songs for their new album. Luckily, their engineer remembered the one take they did that was a diamond in the rough and knew it could be a hit. But going back to the vaults, it was like searching for a needle in a haystack. It’s the story of a song that sat on the shelf for years, and then the Stones had to be convinced to play it straight… Find out what happened next on Professor Of Rock.”
The post THE ROLLING STONES’ 1975 Attempt At A Reggae Song Landed Them A 1981 Rock Smash; PROFESSOR OF ROCK Reports (Video) appeared first on BraveWords - Where Music Lives.
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