Tattoo You is not just one of my favourites, it really means a lot to me.
On September 6, 1981 I moved to New York City to live there for a couple of years, I lived in Riverdale, in the Bronx, just one block from the Engineering Building at Manhattan College where I was a student at the Graduate Division.
I didn’t know the Stones just released Tattoo You; I bought a radio with tape player the very first day and turned the radio on (WPLJ), two or three songs after I turned it on I heard the Stones’ “Start me up” the next day I bought the tape and I played it several times a day, some weeks later I bought a turntable and bought the record, some years later the CD and some years later another CD. I still have that tape but with no cover and in these conditions LOL
It was the soundtrack of those first days in NYC along with Zappa’s “You are what You is”, “Start me up” was played at every party at college and at the local bars.
Since the record didn’t have lyrics and it was hard to me to get it I bought those old magazine with rock lyrics and they still there inside the album, then I was translating the lyrics with a dictionary of slangs, clichés and idiomatic expressions, I found the meaning of “hang fire” for example LOL. AT the beginning side 1 was my side, I didn’t like side 2, those falsettos didn’t turn me on, some weeks later that was my side!
Didn’t know it was made with a lot of old outtakes until the mid 90s!
That was also the first time I saw the Stones live
Since I couldn’t get tickets for the shows at the MSG, we traveled to Philadelphia for the opening show of the tour!! I was really far from the stage but enjoyed the show to the extreme and later I got tickets for the Stones at one of the shows at the MSG at $40 USD (face value was something like $17 USD) again far from stage but I was IN babies
We need another album like that!
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