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Fact #88208

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Short story:

The Rolling Stones arrive in Muscle Shoals Studios, Florence, Alabama, USA, to begin two days of recording, during which they work on the songs Brown Sugar, Wild Horses and You Gotta Move.

Full article:

Keith Richard (guitarist, Rolling Stones) : We were down in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to cut a few tracks last week and you couldn't even get a can of beer. It's a dry county. And people there are going through the same thing for a can of beer that people everywhere else are going through for pot or grass or acid or whatever. And they're driving about hiding six-packs of beer under their seats. Getting caught with a bottle of whiskey is like being caught with a needle in your arm. (Interview with Ray Connolly, December 1969)

Ian Stewart (Stones crew) : Keith was a bit prophetic about it, 'cause when the site (of their proposed free concert) was being moved from one place to another, Keith said, For Christ's sake forget it. But the band had gone so far with it they more or less had to do it. We were down in Muscle Shoals doing Brown Sugar when these things were going on. We kept getting phone calls. It was a disaster right from the fuckin' start... Altamont has to be one of the few things the Stones did where they had no say. The Angels were in charge that day and there was no way gettin' round that. But the band didn't blame themselves. Although a lot of people would blame them, you really couldn't. That would be unfair because they made a genuine attempt to have a free concert. In many ways it represented the spirit of Haight Ashbury and all that, but it didn't work. It should have worked. The day after Altamont they couldn't get out of America quick enough.