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Fact #88231

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Short story:

The Rolling Stones are working on the song Wild Horses in Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Florence, Alabama, USA.

Full article:

Keith Richards (guitarist, Rolling Stones) : I had the riff and the chorus line, Mick got stuck into the verses. Just like Satisfaction. Wild Horses was about the usual thing of not wanting to be on the road, being a million miles from where you want to be.

Mick Jagger (vocalist, Rolling Stones) : Everyone always says it was written about Marianne But I Don't think it was; that was all well over by then. But I was definitely very inside this piece emotionally. This is very personal, evocative, and sad. It all sounds rather doomy now, but it was quite a heavy time.

Mick Taylor (guitarist, Rolling Stones) : I played one of Keith's Gibson acoustic guitars in what they call a Nashville tuning. The guitar is tuned exactly the same way as regular tuning, but you use all first and second strings and you tune them in octaves. It's kind of like playing a 12-string guitar without the other six strings. That's the best way to describe it. I think I played a 12-string too. Keith played the electric solo on Wild Horses.

Jerry Wexler (record producer, Atlantic Records] : I saw Mick and Keith in the studio at Muscle Shoals when they made Wild Horses and I was really impressed by them as record producers, not just as brilliant rock performers.

They knew just what they wanted to do and how to do it, and they went about it decisively and economically, not wasting time, and that's another factor. Time-wasting is an enormous component in rock and roll and that comes from a lack of certitude, of not knowing what to do. Let's try this or let's try that. Not so with Mick and Keith: however the mix came out, that was their doing.