WCSX Classic Cuts : Beast of Burden

WCSX Classic Cuts

The Rolling Stones: "Beast of Burden"

The Hook: Not one of the easy ones.

Album: Some Girls

Year: 1978

Writers: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards

Stats: Peaked at number-eight on the Billboard Hot 100

Background: Keith Richards came up with the music for "Beast of Burden," but says it took him a while to get it just right.

Keith Richards on writing the music for “Beast of Burden.” OC:…doo da-doo-doo. :16

“I nurtured it for a while, you know, just sort of kept it around and it kept growing on me and then I found the second part and then I realized it was a song. And there’s months of that, probably, if not a year, of just [sings] ‘Doo-doo doo-da-doo doo da-doo-doo.’”