WCSX Classic Cuts : Wild Horse
WCSX Classic Cuts
The Rolling Stones: “Wild Horses”
The Hook: Take these horses and write me some verses, Mick.
Album: Sticky Fingers
Year: 1971
Writers: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Stats: Peaked at number-28 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The Background: As with “Satisfaction” before it, Keith started the song, then handed it off to Mick, as he explains:
Keith Richards on writing The Rolling Stones’ “Wild Horses.” OC:…next song. :16
“Very elegant structure on it and it was also a good bit of team work with Mick and me, because I had the song and I had ‘Wild Horses’ etcetera. And it was another one of those, really, ‘Okay, where are you going to take these horses Mick? You write the verses and I’ll carry on, mate, and write the next song.”
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