Shattered (song)
“Shattered” | |||||
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Single by Rolling Stones from the album Some Girls |
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B-side | "Everything is Turning to Gold" (Jagger/Richards/Ron Wood) |
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Released | 1978 | ||||
Format | 7" | ||||
Recorded | October-December, 1977 | ||||
Genre | Rock | ||||
Length | 3 min 47 s | ||||
Label | Rolling Stones/Virgin | ||||
Writer(s) | Jagger/Richards | ||||
Producer | The Glimmer Twins | ||||
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"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.
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.
"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 Wood's lips and tore his shirt off.
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.