It can be found on The Singles Collection. This version was credited only to Jagger. Released as a single in 1970 only in England. Martin Scorsese used the track - the solo version by Mick Jagger, incorrectly credited as the Rolling Stones version - in a scene from Goodfellas where Ray Liotta's character Henry Hill is driving to the hospital to pick up his brother after unsuccessfully trying to sell some pistol silencers to Jimmy Conway. Ronnie Wood performed "Memo from Turner" live at various club gigs in 1987-88, including some of his shows with Bo Diddley. Burroughs and writer Robert Palmer assume this connection in a 1972 Rolling Stone magazine interview, and strong Burroughsian themes are contained in the film the song was written for. The lyric about "the man who works the soft machine" may be a reference to the William S. It's not a celebration of the gangster mentality, though, so much as a subtle, mocking look at its decadence, with hints of repressed homosexuality and almost gruesome imagery of dog-eat-dog behavior."
The music isn't grim, though it's more in a sly, ironic happy-go-lucky vein, as if to illustrate the callous, carefree glee gangsters take in such antics. puts on his best drawling speak-sing voice for the lyrics, spinning bizarre mini-snapshots of decadent, cruel gangster behavior. The tape of Jagger's vocals was sent to Jack Nitzsche, where all music parts were recorded by Ry Cooder on slide guitar, Russ Titelman (guitar), Randy Newman (piano), Jerry Scheff (bass) and Gene Parsons (drums).īesides the differing lineup between the two released versions, there are also slight changes to the lyrics. This track was recorded in Los Angeles in early 1970, and uses the vocal track of the first, slow version. This is the more well-known version of the song, as it was released as a solo single by Jagger in England in 1970 and is featured on the later Singles Collection: The London Years. It is featured prominently in the movie, with Mick Jagger, as Turner, lip-synching it.
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The third version of the song, typified by its slide guitar, was the one recorded for the soundtrack to the movie Performance, starring Mick Jagger as the song title's "Turner". Credited to "Jagger/Richards", it is not clear how many of the Rolling Stones besides Jagger actually played on it.
Either Charlie Watts or Jim Capaldi plays drums on this recording. This version supposedly features Al Kooper on guitar, and perhaps Keith Richards as well. The second version, released on Metamorphosis in 1975 on the Allen Klein Decca/London pre-existing legacy contracts of the Stones 1960s recordings, was a different version recorded by The Rolling Stones in November 1968, and has a looser feel than the released version.
It features Steve Winwood on all instruments except drums, which are played by Jim Capaldi. The first version, which is not officially released, is a slow, brooding version recorded by members of the band Traffic. Two different versions of "Memo from Turner" have been released, and another version is available on bootleg recordings. "Memo from Turner" was ranked #92 in the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs list of Rolling Stone. After its original release in 1970, it had been included on Rolling Stones compilations, such as Singles Collection: The London Years as a track credited to the Jagger/Richards songwriting partnership. It was re-released in October 2007 on a seventeen-song retrospective compilation album The Very Best of Mick Jagger, making a re-appearance as a Jagger solo effort. "Memo from Turner" is a solo record by Mick Jagger, featuring the slide guitar by Ry Cooder, from the soundtrack of Performance, in which Jagger played the leading role of Turner, a reclusive rock star. Recorded August 1968, Olympic Studios, London Song by The Rolling Stones from the album Metamorphosis Recorded September 1968, Olympic Studios, London