Produced by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards under their Glimmer Twins guise, It's Only Rock 'N' Roll was another number one album in the US in 1974, and contains two hit singles, the title track and a great reworking of an old Motown favourite, The Temptations' Ain't Too Proud To Beg. Guy Peellaert's fin de siècle sleeve beautifully captures the mood of the times. Mick Taylor ended his tenure with some wonderful guitar work on Time Waits For No One while his eventual replacement Ronnie Wood hosted the sessions for It's Only Rock'n'Roll (But I Like It), a concert favourite to this day.
- 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
- Luxury
- Dance Little Sister
- If You Really Want To Be My Friend
- Short And Curlies
- Fingerprint File
Rock & roll can't be planned or prepared. You can have a few basic structures though. I wrote maybe three of the songs in the studio just warming up before the rest of the guys arrived and Mick had a couple that he had ready... and that's the way it goes.
