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Shattered.
"Shattered" is a song by The Rolling
Stones from their 1978 album Some Girls. The song is seen as a
reflection of American lifestyles and life in 1970s-era New York City, but
also influences from the English punk movement can be heard. It also
foreshadowed the upcoming Rap movement as Jagger's performance is
as much narrative as it is melodic. Some consider the song to be
the group's "art music" masterpiece, stylistically consistent with
the early Punk Rock music scene but without being excessively
vulgar or negative.
Recorded from October to December 1977, "Shattered" features
lyrics by Mick
Jagger on a guitar riff by Keith Richards. Jagger commented in a
Rolling
Stone interview that he wrote the lyrics in the back of a
New York cab. Most of Richards guitar work simply features a basic
rhythmic pattern strumming out the alternating tonic and dominant
chords with each bar, utilizing a relatively modest phaser sound
effect for some added depth.
"Shattered" was released as a single in the US and in 1979
climbed to #31 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Stones
memorably performed the song live for an episode of Saturday
Night Live during which Jagger apparently licked Ronnie Wood's lips and
tore his shirt off.
The track was featured on WKRP in Cincinnati on the episode
"Pilot: Part Two"
A live version was captured during their 1981 tour of America
and released on the 1982 live album "Still
Life". A second version, captured during the band's A Bigger Bang
Tour, appears on Shine a
Light. It would act as the opening song for the 1981
compilation Sucking in the Seventies
and in 2002 the Stones included it on their career retrospective,
Forty
Licks.
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