Tattoo You is a studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 24 August 1981 by Rolling Stones Records. The album is mostly composed of studio outtakes recorded during the 1970s, and contains one of the band's most well-known songs, "Start Me Up", which hit number two on the US Billboard singles charts.
The credited members of the Rolling Stones for the album were vocalist Mick Jagger, guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts while older tracks feature former Stones guitarist Mick Taylor ("Tops"), keyboardists Nicky Hopkins and Billy Preston, Black and Blue session guitarist Wayne Perkins ("Worried About You") and founding member Ian Stewart.
The album proved to be both a critical and commercial success upon release, reaching the top of the US Billboard 200. To date, it is the final Rolling Stones album to reach the top position of the US charts, concluding the band's string of eight consecutive number-one albums there, dating back to 1971's Sticky Fingers.
In 1989, it was ranked No. 34 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s. In 2003, the album was ranked number 211 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, then re-ranked number 213 in the 2012 revised list. Peter Corriston, who was responsible for the album cover's concept origination, art direction and design, won a Grammy Award in the category of Best Album Package.
Tracklist:
Side one
1. Start Me Up 0:00
2. Hang Fire 3:32
3. Slave 5:53
4. Little T & A 12:25
5. Black Limousine 15:48
6. Neighbours 19:21
Side two
7. Worried About You 22:52
8. Tops 28:10
9. Heaven 31:56
10. No Use in Crying 36:19
11. Waiting on a Friend 39:44
The Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger – lead vocals (all but 4), backing vocals (all but 5); electric guitar (9 & 10); percussion (track 9)
Keith Richards – electric guitar (all but 9), backing vocals (2–4, 6, 7 & 10); lead vocals and bass guitar (track 4)
Ronnie Wood – electric guitar (1-2, 4-6, 10), backing vocals (2, 4, 6 & 10)
Bill Wyman – bass guitar (all but 4); guitars, synthesizer and percussion (track 9)
Charlie Watts – drums
Mick Taylor – electric guitar (8, 11)
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