Connection (The Rolling Stones song)

Connection (The Rolling Stones song)
"Connection"
Song by The Rolling Stones from the album Between the Buttons
Released 20 January 1967 (UK)
6 February 1967 (US)
Recorded August 3–11, 1966
Genre Pop rock
Length 2m:08s
Label Decca/ABKCO (UK)
London/ABKCO (US)
Writer Jagger/Richards
Producer Andrew Loog Oldham

"Connection" is a song by the British rock and roll band The Rolling Stones. It was featured on their 1967 album Between the Buttons. It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (but mostly Richards) and featured vocals by both of them and is said to be about the long hours the band spent in airports. The lyrics contain much rhyming based on the word "connection." The lyrics also reflect very heavily the pressures the band was under by 1967:

My bags they get a very close inspection, I wonder why it is that they suspect on, They're dying to add me to their collection, And I don't know, If they'll let me go

Coincidentally, the song was written before Jagger, Richards and fellow Rolling Stone Brian Jones were arrested by the police for drugs. Although it was never released as a single, it is a popular live song. The song itself is built on a very simple featuring a repetitive drum pattern, Chuck Berry-like lead guitar from Richards, and the piano of Ian Stewart.

It has been covered by the bands Marble Phrogg (on their highly regarded and sought after sole 1968 self-titled album), Everclear, Montrose, and Eddie and the Subtitles (on their 1968 album Dead Drunks Don't Dance) and also by Ramblin' Jack Elliott on his 1968 debut album Young Brigham.

The song was performed by Richards during his 1988 solo tour and during shows for the Stones' 1995 leg of the Voodoo Lounge Tour and the 2006 A Bigger Bang Tour throughout North America. "Connection" is also featured in the 2008 Martin Scorsese film Shine a Light.


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