"This guy's a giant of the saxophone," Jagger says in Bill Janovitz's Rocks Off: 50 Tracks That Tell the Story of the Rolling Stones. Drummer Charlie Watts, a huge jazz fan, wondered if Rollins would even agree to the gig. Jagger admitted to some nervousness about working with the accomplished Rollins, whom he'd met through a mutual friend at New York City's Bottom Line earlier in 1981. Watch the Video for Rolling Stones' 'Waiting on a Friend' "I can see people saying, 'Oh, we're all much older now, Mick's writing this much more compassionate stuff, must be about a real person.' But that's only in their perception of it." It doesn't matter if it's a man or a woman," Jagger argued years later. "It's really not about waiting on a woman friend it's just about a friend.
(Sharp-eyed rock fans will recognize the New York City brownstone from the cover of Led Zeppelin's 1975 album Physical Graffiti.) Mark's Place in Manhattan before Keith Richards joins him on the way to meet the others at a local pub. The accompanying video, helmed by The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, traces the same storyline: Jagger is shown hanging out on a stoop on St. Instead, he described the lyric as "very gentle and loving, about friendships in the band." Jagger cautioned against the idea that he was awaiting a new love interest. Much had changed in the interim, however, as Jagger constructed a new narrative from a very grown-up perspective: " Don't need a whore, don't need no booze / Don't need a virgin priest, but I need someone I can cry to / I need someone to protect." "We all liked it at the time, but it didn't have any lyrics, so there we were," Jagger said in the liner notes to the 1993 compilation album Jump Back.
The endlessly inventive Nicky Hopkins guests on piano, while the since-departed Mick Taylor serves as lead guitarist. The Rolling Stones cut the original backing track in 1972 in Kingston, Jamaica, during sessions for Goats Head Soup.
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