“Hand Of Fate” by The Rolling Stones

"Hand of Fate" holds down the second slot on Black and Blue, the Rolling Stones' thirteenth studio album, released in 1976. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote it, the Glimmer Twins get the production credit, and the track itself was cut at some point between March and December 1975.

The personnel tell the story of a band caught mid-changeover. Wayne Perkins plays the electric guitar and takes the solo, Billy Preston is on piano, Ollie E. Brown adds percussion, and Ron Wood, who came into the Stones while the album was still being made, chips in backing vocals. Critics have come to count it among the album's high points, with Perkins' soloing singled out for praise.

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