The recording was completed with overdub sessions at Los Angeles's Sunset Sound and included additional musicians such as pianist Nicky Hopkins, saxophonist Bobby Keys, drummer Jimmy Miller and horn player Jim Price. Working with a mobile recording studio, the loose and unorganised Nellcôte sessions went on for hours into the night, with personnel varying greatly from day to day. A collage of various images, the album's artwork, according to frontman Mick Jagger, reflects the Rolling Stones as 'runaway outlaws using the blues as its weapon against the world', showcasing 'feeling of joyful isolation, grinning in the face of a scary and unknown future'. Recording began in 1969 in England during sessions for Sticky Fingers and continued in mid-1971 at a rented villa in the South of France named Nellcôte while the band lived abroad as tax exiles. Released on by Rolling Stones Records, it was the band's first double album, tenth studio album in the United Kingdom, and twelfth American album. is a studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. ' Tumbling Dice' / ' Sweet Black Angel'Įxile on Main St.
