“Too Much Blood” by The Rolling Stones

"Too Much Blood" landed on Undercover, the Rolling Stones' 17th studio album, in 1983, and in December 1984 it became its third single, issued only in America. The credit reads Jagger and Richards, but it's mostly Mick's creation, and it came together on the fly: one night, before everybody else turned up, he was in the room with just Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman and a roadie, Jim Barber, on guitar, and he started working a riff he had with a middle section. He had no words for it, so he simply began rapping over it, and those are the words on the record.

Barber remembered Jagger asking him to do an "Andy Summers" on the track. The Glimmer Twins produced it with Chris Kimsey, who also engineered and mixed.

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