Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
- First released
- 23 April 1971
- Tracks on this edition
- 10
- Running time
- 46:25
The cover
The Sticky Fingers sleeve in MoMA’s collection has a real metal zipper. Craig Braun’s recollections, collected by IORR, describe assembling Andy Warhol’s concept with an extra cardboard panel and an underwear image behind the jeans.
Cover concept: Andy Warhol (IORR archive account); Package construction: Craig Braun (IORR archive account)
Image via Cover Art Archive / MusicBrainz source release
Artwork source and selected track edition are identified separately.
What critics said
Mark Richardson’s Pitchfork review of the 2015 expanded reissue makes a case for Sticky Fingers as the Stones’ peak. He praises the songwriting, Mick Jagger’s full voice and Mick Taylor’s melodic guitar, with “Sister Morphine” and “Moonlight Mile” carrying a weary beauty beyond the album’s American roots influences.
Tracklist
UK edition · 23 April 1971
Select a song for details
- A1Brown Sugar3:51
- A2Sway3:53
- A3Wild Horses5:44
- A4Can’t You Hear Me Knocking7:16
- A5You Gotta Move2:33
- B1Bitch3:38
- B2I Got the Blues3:55
- B3Sister Morphine5:35
- B4Dead Flowers4:05
- B5Moonlight Mile5:55
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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