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"Don't Stop" is a single by rock and roll band
the
Rolling Stones featured on their 2002 double-compilation album Forty Licks.
Credited to singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards,
"Don't Stop" was largely the work of Jagger. Writing began during
Jagger's preparations for his 2001 album Goddess in the Doorway. At
the time of release, he commented, "For me, doing a solo album or a
Stones album is all the same, with one proviso: that when I'm
writing for the Rolling Stones I don't mind if the song sounds like
the ones the Stones do, whereas if I'm writing, but not recording,
with the Rolling Stones, I don't want the song to contain too many
of the clichés that one associates with the Rolling Stones, so I
try quite hard to avoid them. Before the release of Forty
Licks, I wrote 'Don't Stop' in the same period that I was
writing the songs for my solo album, and I just put it to one side
and said to myself, 'This sounds very much like the Rolling Stones
to me. It might be very useful in the coming months, but I'll leave
it for now and I won't record it because I think it's going to be
better for the Stones.'" [1]
A straightforward rocker featuring a trademark opening riff from
Richards, "Don't Stop" tells of a rough love affair between the
singer and his lover;
|
“ |
The way you bit my
lip and you drew first blood, It warmed my cold, cold heart; And
you wrote your name right on my back, Boy, your nails were
sharp |
” |
|
“ |
Well I'm losing you,
I know your heart is miles away; There's a whisper there where once
there was a storm; And all that's left is that image that I've
filed away, And some memories have tattered as they've
torn |
” |
Recording began on "Don't Stop" in the early summer of 2002 at
Guillaume Tell Studios, in Suresnes, France.
On the recording, Richards said at the time, "['Don't Stop' is]
basically all Mick. He had the song when we got to Paris to record.
It was a matter of me finding the guitar licks to go behind the
song, rather than it just chugging along. We don't see a lot of
each other - I live in America, he lives in England. So when we get
together, we see what ideas each has got: 'I'm stuck on the
bridge.' 'Well, I have this bit that might work.' A lot of what
Mick and I do is fixing and touching up, writing the song in bits,
assembling it on the spot. In 'Don't Stop', my job was the fairy
dust."[1]
With Jagger on lead vocals, both Richards and Ron Wood accompany on
guitars. "Don't Stop" is one of the many later Stones songs to
feature Jagger on rhythm guitar. Wood provides the two
solos near the middle and at the end. Charlie Watts performs drums while Darryl Jones performs
bass. Chuck
Leavell performs keyboards.
Released December 16, 2002, "Don't Stop" reached number 36 on UK
Top 75 Singles and number 21 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks.
The song was performed heavily during the 2002-2003 Licks Tour in support of
Forty Licks.
References
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b
""Don't Stop"".
timeisonourside.org. http://timeisonourside.com/SODontStop.html. Retrieved
2007-07-01.
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