"You Got the Silver" is a song by English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones from their 1969 album Let It Bleed. It was also released as the b-side to the "Let It Bleed" single in Japan.
Recorded on 18 February 1969, "You Got the Silver" is the first Stones song to feature guitarist Keith Richards on lead vocals by himself (Richards shared lead with Mick Jagger on "Something Happened to Me Yesterday" from Between the Buttons and "Salt of the Earth" from Beggars Banquet). One of Richards' own compositions, "You Got the Silver" is said to be written about his then-girlfriend Anita Pallenberg.
| “ | Hey babe, you got my soul, You got the silver, you got the gold A flash of love has made me blind, I don't care, no, that's no big surprise |
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It is the last Stones recording with Brian Jones to be released. He plays autoharp, one of his two appearances on the album. The band recorded a version of the song with Jagger on lead, but opted to use Richards' version for the official release. The Jagger version has since become a well-known bootleg recording.
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Famous quotes containing the word silver:
“There is probably not more than one hundred dollars in cash in circulation today. That is, if you were to call in all the bills and silver and gold in the country at noon tomorrow and pile them on the table, you would find that you had just about one hundred dollars, with perhaps several Canadian pennies and a few peppermint Life Savers.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)