Keith richards vocals on rolling stones songs
•
5 Killer Stones Songs Sung by Keith Richards
We’ll admit that the title of this article is having a little fun at the expense of Keith Richards and his gravelly vocal stylings. But the truth is that Richards is an extremely effective vocalist who always cuts to the heart of the emotion in each song that he sings. The fact that he’s usually singing lead on songs that he also wrote for The Rolling Stones probably helps in that respect. There haven’t been a ton of Keef lead vocals over the years, but, like these five tracks, the songs he does sing on usually hit home in a major way.
1. ”Thru and Thru” (from the album Voodoo Lounge, )
Because of his reputation as rock’s favorite roué, it might be hard to imagine Richards as a balladeer. In actuality, he’s been a fantastic writer of the slow ones throughout his career; for example, he’s the one responsible for “Ruby Tuesday” (although he let Mick Jagger sing that one). And he sings the ballads darn well, too, including on this bea
•
I recently finished reading the Keith Richards biography, Life, which I largely enjoyed. It&#;s not a great book, huge gaps, not particularly well organized or written, and it suffers from a classic case of the unreliable narrator (this is Keith Richards, after all), but entertaining nonetheless. For me, born in , the youngest of seven, those great Rolling Stones albums are woven into my earliest memories. My brothers had the original, gate-fold 3D cover of Satanic Majesty&#;s Last Request, the actual zipper cover for Sticky Fingers, and so on. I shared a bedroom wall with my brother, Neal, twelve years my senior, and I can vividly recall his two favorites seeping into my sleep: Dylan and the Stones, endlessly. I grew up listening to Keith and all these years later still find new things to appreciate.
The best outcome from reading Life was that it inspired me to pull out the old disks, and in particular, search out the rare songs when Keith sang lead. There aren&#;t tha
•
Keith Richards performed lead vocals on The Rolling Stones’ “Happy” instead of Mick ds explained why Jagger had this ds discussed the conditions beneath which he was willing to sing lead vocals. The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards | Keystone/Getty Images
Keith Richards sang lead vocals on The Rolling Stones‘ “Happy.” Subsequently, he explained why he took on that role instead of Mick Jagger. He also revealed he sometimes sang lead on songs when he didn’t want to.
Mick Jagger felt he couldn’t sing The Rolling Stones’ ‘Happy’ better than Keith Richards even if he tried for days
In the book 50 Licks: Myths and Stories from Half a Century of The Rolling Stones, Richards explained why he sang lead vocals on “Happy.” “It was mainly because we had the track, we liked it, but we hadn’t worked on the lyrics or