If I could stick my pen in my heart
And spill it all over the stage
Would it satisfy ya, would it slide on by ya
Would you think the boy is strange? Ain’t he strange?
If I could win ya, if I could sing ya
A love song so divine
Would it be enough for your cheating heart
If I broke down and cried? If I cried?
I said I know it’s only rock ‘n roll but I like it
I know it’s only rock ‘n roll but I like it, like it, yes, I do
Oh, well, I like it, I like it, I like it
I said can’t you see that this old boy has been a lonely?
If I could stick a knife in my heart
Suicide right on stage
Would it be enough for your teenage lust
Would it help to ease the pain? Ease your brain?
If I could dig down deep in my heart
Feelings would flood on the page
Would it satisfy ya, would it slide on by ya
Would ya think the boy’s insane? He’s insane
I said I know it’s only rock ‘n roll but I like it
I said I know it’s only rock’n roll but I like it, like it, yes, I do
Oh, well, I like it, I like it, I like it
I said can’t you see that this old boy has been a lonely?
And do ya think that you’re the only girl around?
I bet you think that you’re the only woman in town
I said I know it’s only rock ‘n roll but I like it
I said I know it’s only rock ‘n roll but I like it
I said I know it’s only rock ‘n roll but I like it, like it, yes, I do
Oh, well, I like it, I like it. I like it…
I remember seeing this in record stores back in 1974.
I had just graduated high school and was attending my first year of art school.
This was the kind of illustration I wanted to do.
By today’s standards, pretty lame.
Back then, it didn’t get any better.
It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll would mark The Stones’ first effort in the producer’s chair since Their Satanic Majesties Request, and the first for Jagger and Richards under their pseudonym “The Glimmer Twins”. On the choice to produce, Richards said at the time, “I think we’d come to a point with Jimmy (Miller) where the contribution level had dropped because it’d got to be a habit, a way of life, for Jimmy to do one Stones album a year. He’d got over the initial sort of excitement which you can feel on Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed. Also, Mick and I felt that we wanted to try and do it ourselves because we really felt we knew much more about techniques and recording and had our own ideas of how we wanted things to go. Goats Head Soup hadn’t turned out as we wanted to – not blaming Jimmy or anything like that… But it was obvious that it was time for a change in that particular part of the process of making records.” Starting with this release, all future Rolling Stones albums would either be produced by them or in collaboration with an outside producer.
Most of the album’s backing tracks were recorded first at Musicland, with Jagger’s vocals recorded after, with Richards saying, “Jagger often comes up with his best stuff alone in the studio with just an engineer.”.
Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Only_Rock_%27n%27_Roll
RARE IN STORE POSTER, CASHBOX AD AND SHEET MUSIC USING THE SAME ARTWORK.
This display would for the most part make no sense unless you had seen the video.
Or more likely they designed the displays etc. and built the idea behind the video afterwards.
Check it out.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xg8pz_rolling-stones-its-only-rock-roll_music
