The Rolling Stones

Released: May 12, 1972

Songwriter: Mick Taylor Keith Richards Mick Jagger

Producer: Jimmy Miller

When your spine is cracking and your hands, they shake
Heart is bursting and you butt's going to break
Your woman's cussing, you can hear her scream
Feel like murder in the first degree

Ain't nobody slowing down no way
Everybody’s stepping on their accelerator
Don't matter where you are
Everybody’s going to need a ventilator

When you're trapped and circled with no second chances
Your code of living is your gun in hand
We can't be browed by beating, we can't be cowed by words
Messed by cheating, isn’t going to ever learn

Everybody walking around
Everybody trying to step on their Creator
Don't matter where you are, everybody, everybody going to
Need some kind of ventilator, some kind of ventilator

What you going to do about it, what you going to do?
What you going to do about it, what you going to do?
Going to fight it, going to fight it?

Formed in London in 1962, The Rolling Stones led the “British Invasion” along with The Beatles and were so successful their influence can be seen in arguably every rock ‘n’ roll band that followed.

Three of the current members have been there since the band’s singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards, who write the majority of the band’s catalogue and also produced some albums as The Glimmer Twins; and drummer Charlie Watts. The fourth official member is guitarist Ronnie Wood, who has been there since 1975 (the keyboardist and bassist who play in studio and live are usually not listed). The Stones have released more than 20 studio albums, and even as age caught up on them, continued to be a huge attraction on the live circuit, with big stadium tours continuing through the 1990s, 2000s and into the 2010s.

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