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Format | 7-inch single | |||
Recorded | 12 May 1965 | |||
Studio | RCA, Hollywood, California | |||
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Length | 3:45 | |||
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Songwriter(s) | Jagger/Richards | |||
Producer(s) | Andrew Loog Oldham | |||
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Single by Devo | ||||
from the album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! | ||||
B-side | "Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin')" | |||
Released | September 1977 | |||
Format | 7-inch single | |||
Recorded | July 1977 | |||
Genre | New wave | |||
Length | 3:00 | |||
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Songwriter(s) | Jagger/Richards | |||
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"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" on YouTube |
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released in 1965. It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and produced by Andrew Loog Oldham. Richards' three-note guitar riff—intended to be replaced by horns—opens and drives the song. The lyrics refer to sexual frustration and commercialism.
The song was first released as a single in the United States in June 1965 and was also featured on the American version of the Rolling Stones' fourth studio album, Out of Our Heads, released that July. "Satisfaction" was a hit, giving the Stones their first number one in the US. In the UK, the song initially was played only on pirate radio stations, because its lyrics were considered too sexually suggestive. It later became the Rolling Stones' fourth number one in the United Kingdom.
In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine placed "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" in the second spot on its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The song was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2006.
Richards wrote Satisfaction in his sleep and recorded a rough version of the riff on a Philips cassette player. He had no idea he had written it. He said when he listened to the recording in the morning, there was about two minutes of acoustic guitar before you could hear him drop the pick and "then me snoring for the next forty minutes". Sources vary as to where this story happened. While they make reference to a hotel room at the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida, a house in Chelsea and the London Hilton, Keith Richards wrote in his most recent autobiography that he was in his flat in Carlton Hill, St. John’s Wood. He specifies that Mick Jagger wrote the lyrics by the pool in Clearwater, four days before they went into the studio, hence the confusion.