Forty Licks - Personnel

Personnel

The Rolling Stones

• Mick Jagger – lead vocals, harmonica, percussion, guitar, electric piano
• Brian Jones – lead, slide and rhythm guitars, tambura, marimba, harmonica, backing vocals, recorder, piano, sitar
• Keith Richards – lead, slide, rhythm and acoustic guitars, backing vocals, bass guitar, bowed double bass, lead vocals on "Happy" and "Losing My Touch"
• Mick Taylor – lead, slide and rhythm guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals
• Charlie Watts – drums, percussion, backing vocals
• Ronnie Wood – guitars, backing vocals, bass drum, bass guitar
• Bill Wyman – bass guitar, maracas, backing vocals, bowed double bass

Additional musicians

• Madelaine Bell – backing vocals
• Sugar Blue – harmonica
• Blondie Chaplin – backing vocals, shaker
• Merry Clayton – vocals on "Gimme Shelter"
• Mel Collins – saxophone
• Sarah Dash – backing vocals
• Jim Dickinson – piano
• Rocky Dijon – percussion, congas
• Sly Dunbar – percussion
• Marianne Faithfull – backing vocals
• Lisa Fischer – backing vocals
• Bernard Fowler – backing vocals
• Nicky Harrison – string arrangement on "Angie"
• Nicky Hopkins – piano, backing vocals
• Kick Horns – brass
• Luis Jardim – percussion
• Darryl Jones – bass guitar
• John Paul Jones – string arrangement on "She's a Rainbow"
• Bobby Keys – saxophone, percussion
• Clydie King – backing vocals
• Al Kooper – piano, French horn, organ
• Chuck Leavell – piano, organ, keyboards
• The London Bach Choir – choir
• Dave Mason – shenai
• Ian McLagan – electric piano
• Jimmy Miller – percussion, drums, cowbell
• Jamie Muhoberac – bass guitar, keyboards
• Ivan Neville – backing vocals
• Nanette Workman – backing vocals
• Jack Nitzsche – piano, choral arrangements
• Denis O'Regan – photography
• Anita Pallenberg – backing vocals
• Jim Price – trumpet, trombone
• Ian Stewart – piano
• Doris Troy – backing vocals
• Vanetta – backing vocals
• Waddy Wachtel – electric and acoustic guitar
• Don Was – keyboards