10 tracks
Side one "If You Can't Rock Me" "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" "Till the Next Goodbye" "Time Waits for No One" Side two "Luxury" "Dance Little Sister" "If You Really Want to Be My Friend" "Short and Curlies" "Fingerprint File"

10 tracks
Side one "If You Can't Rock Me" "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" "Till the Next Goodbye" "Time Waits for No One" Side two "Luxury" "Dance Little Sister" "If You Really Want to Be My Friend" "Short and Curlies" "Fingerprint File"

"It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)"

Single by Artists for Children's Promise
Released	9 December 9 1999
Format	CD single
Recorded	1999
Genre	Rock
Length	5:03
Label	EMI
Writer(s)	Jagger/Richards
Producer(s)	Arthur Baker

"It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" is the lead single from English rock band the Rolling Stones' 1974 album It's Only Rock 'n Roll. Writing is credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the single reached the top ten in the British charts and top 20 in America.

Recorded in late 1973 and completed in the spring of 1974, "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" is credited to the Rolling Stones songwriting team Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, although future Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood collaborated with Jagger on it. The song was originally recorded one night in a studio at Wood's house, "The Wick" in Richmond, London.David Bowie was backing singer to Jagger's lead, and Willie Weeks played bass with Kenney Jones on drums. The song on the album is similar to that original recording, with the Stones keeping the original rhythm track.

The meaning of the lyrics was summed up by Jagger in the liner notes to the 1993 compilation Jump Back; "The idea of the song has to do with our public persona at the time. I was getting a bit tired of people having a go, all that, 'oh, it's not as good as their last one' business. The single sleeve had a picture of me with a pen digging into me as if it were a sword. It was a lighthearted, anti-journalistic sort of thing."

Jagger also has said that as soon as he wrote it, he knew it was going to be a single. He said it was his answer to everyone who took seriously what he or the band did. According to Richards there was opposition to it being a single but they persisted, saying it had to be the next single. He said that to him "that song is a classic. The title alone is a classic and that's the whole thing about it."

The song was promoted by a music video directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, showing the band dressed in sailor suits and playing in a tent which eventually fills with bubbles. This video was one of Mick Taylor's last appearances as a member of the band, having been effectively replaced when Ronnie Wood, who does not appear in the video, played acoustic guitar on the recording, alongside Keith Richards on electric guitar.

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