Let It Bleed
The Rolling Stones
- First released
- 28 November 1969
- Tracks on this edition
- 9
- Running time
- 42:22
The cover
Robert Brownjohn built Let It Bleed’s stack of circular objects around a record-changer spindle. A plate, film canister, clock face, pizza and bicycle tyre lead up to Delia Smith’s cake and miniature Stones.
Brownjohn’s archive says the design began with the working title Automatic Changer and survived the title change. On the back, the stack is wrecked, the record is broken and only the miniature Keith Richards remains standing.
Cover sculpture/design: Robert Brownjohn; Cake: Delia Smith
Image via Cover Art Archive / MusicBrainz source release
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What critics said
Michael Gallucci’s Ultimate Classic Rock retrospective hears dread running through Let It Bleed, from “Gimme Shelter” to the choir and instrumental swell of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”. He places “Monkey Man” alongside those songs among the album’s strongest moments and regards the record as the work of a band at its peak.
Tracklist
XW edition · 28 November 1969
Select a song for details
- 1Gimme Shelter4:31
- 2Love in Vain4:19
- 3Country Honk3:08
- 4Live With Me3:33
- 5Let It Bleed5:28
- 6Midnight Rambler6:53
- 7You Got the Silver2:51
- 8Monkey Man4:12
- 9You Can’t Always Get What You Want7:28
Sources & coverage
About these numbers
Concert figures describe 2,181 distinct archive record IDs from 1962-07-12 to 2024-07-21. Separate same-day record IDs remain separate; they have not all been reviewed as unique performed concerts.
1,506 records have stored song entries; 675 do not. Complete-setlist coverage is not established. Missing entries do not establish that a song was not played.
Song observations count distinct record IDs with a matching title after playback entries are excluded. These are documented appearances, not verified full-song performances. Tour groupings can include warm-up dates.
- MusicBrainz — album identities, editions and track programmes
The catalogue import contains core metadata only. Cover artwork and critical responses have separate sources in the sections above. Annotations, genre associations and database ratings remain excluded.
MusicBrainz data licence - setlist.fm — concert history and setlists
Concert dates, venues and setlists from the editor-supplied archive. Every concert page credits setlist.fm and links to its original record. Song observations are calculated by Glimmer Wire from those entries, with playback excluded.
Snapshot: 2026-10-03T21:42:51Z. Original database supplied and factually approved by the editor; normalized and calculated by Glimmer Wire. Counts can change when records or identities are corrected.
Calculation record
Concert records: distinct concert.setlist_id. Country groups: concert.country_code. Stored entries: records with non-playback setlist_song rows. Song appearances: distinct concert_song.setlist_id matched to setlist_song by record ID, position and exact raw title, excluding tape = 1. This does not use a complete-setlist percentage denominator.
Snapshot SHA-256: 7e86a3e2d0670574fd1e8bf42cd9e4dc99d3325db8db1b471707805387b00e5a
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