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About This Track
‘Start Me Up’ is a song by The Rolling Stones featured on the 1981. album “Tattoo You” and is often used to open the Stones’ concerts.
The song opens with what has since become a trademark riff for Keith Richards. It is this, coupled with Charlie Watts’ steady backbeat and Bill Wyman’s echoing bass, that comprises most of the song. Lead guitarist Ronnie Wood can clearly be heard playing a layered variation of Richards’ main riff. Often live versions of the song are lengthened by giving Wood a solo near the middle of the song, pieces of which can be heard throughout the original recording.
‘Start Me Up’ peaked at No. 7 on the UK Singles Charts in August 1981., where it remains a significant single as the Stones have not been back into the UK Top 10 since. In Australia, the song reached No. 1 in November 1981. In the United States, ‘Start Me Up’ spent three weeks at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It also spent 13 weeks atop the Billboard Top Tracks chart.
The song opens with what has since become a trademark riff for Keith Richards. It is this, coupled with Charlie Watts’ steady backbeat and Bill Wyman’s echoing bass, that comprises most of the song. Lead guitarist Ronnie Wood can clearly be heard playing a layered variation of Richards’ main riff. Often live versions of the song are lengthened by giving Wood a solo near the middle of the song, pieces of which can be heard throughout the original recording.
‘Start Me Up’ peaked at No. 7 on the UK Singles Charts in August 1981., where it remains a significant single as the Stones have not been back into the UK Top 10 since. In Australia, the song reached No. 1 in November 1981. In the United States, ‘Start Me Up’ spent three weeks at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It also spent 13 weeks atop the Billboard Top Tracks chart.
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bacilisa wrote:
восхищаюсь старичками
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pravdt wrote:
There's something cool about this song.
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shneyder wrote:
Gaz !! Gaz !!!
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crocy2 wrote:
yeah, start me up...
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escarabat94 wrote:
(:-)
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sgtpepperlove13 wrote:
<3
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rikrijean wrote:
yessssss, the great stones......one of the greatest......
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mozg111 wrote:
He best!
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MIKEH3875 wrote:
RnR
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TheDarkSide73 wrote:
you make a dead man cum..
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oldiesfanjohn wrote:
remembering seeing them opening w/this on the ``steel wheels`` tour in `89
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rikrijean wrote:
...G R E A T !!!!!! .....
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HorstKrannich wrote:
+++ ist doch der Hammer +++
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Woefud wrote:
on me fucking bike sieg heil...
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KarlaNeves wrote:
*-*
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PattySauce wrote:
Love the Stones!
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peter5810 wrote:
agree live version better drums and vocal sharper harmonies weaker thogh
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MIKEH3875 wrote:
great tune
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cadaver11 wrote:
This song is sexy.
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nc8888 wrote:
I love beatles, the greatest band of all time!
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