“Bitch” by The Rolling Stones

"Bitch" slunk out in 1971 as the flip side of "Brown Sugar", a week ahead of Sticky Fingers, and the Rolling Stones cut it the previous October at Olympic Studios in London and at Stargroves with their own mobile studio. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote it and share the vocals, and it's a hard-bitten thing: Richards and Mick Taylor locking guitars into a greasy, strutting riff, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman pushing it along, and Bobby Keys' sax and Jim Price's trumpet blasting a horn line that turns the whole thing into a brass-knuckled party.

Jimmy Miller produced and banged on the percussion, Andy Johns engineered. It was never a single on its own, but album-rock radio has leaned on it hard ever since.

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