WCSX Classic Cuts : Beast of Burden
<strong>11/30/1981
The Rolling Stones</strong>
Iggy Pop and Santana opened the show.
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.’”
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