‘Cocksucker Blues’ - The Rolling Stones, 1972
The Rolling Stones were bound, at some stage, to make an appearance on thishereboogie . One could choose any number of songs to write about due to their long and successful career. Indeed Cocksucker Blues is not by any means their best song but the reason I post about it today is because of the background to the song. The song was written specifically to fulfill the band’s contractual obligation to Decca Records and intentionally uses profanity throughout the lyrics of the song that intend to annoy studio bosses and this they successfully done as they refused to release the single.
On another note Cocksucker Blues is also the name of an unreleased documentary that followed the band during their tour of America in 1972 which was their first tour in that country since their infamous visit there in 1962. If you want to find out more about the song or the film then check out the Wikipedia entry here. Also you can check out the song here
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October 15th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
A good tune, a great doc. It’s on youtube now, but there was a barring order on it for years (I think Jagger was behind it). Watch Keef shoot up! Watch Keef throw a TV out the window! Listen to roadies and groupies talk crap! We’re here all week folks…
October 20th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Is the entire documentary on youtube?
October 20th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Seems to be, The Dom. Go to http://www.youtube.com/user/schulle1967, it’s all there, broken into 9 or 10 parts.
October 30th, 2008 at 7:35 am
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