Shattered (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Shattered


Artist = Rolling Stones
B-side = "Everything is Turning to Gold"
(Jagger/Richards/Ronnie Wood)
from Album = Some Girls
Released = 1978
Format = 7"
Recorded = October-December, 1977
Genre = Rock
Length = 3 min 47 s
Label = Rolling Stones/Virgin
Writer = Jagger/Richards
Producer = The Glimmer Twins
Chart position =

#31 (USA)
Reviews =
Last single = "Respectable"
(1978)
This single = "Shattered"
(1978)
Next single = "Emotional Rescue"
(1980)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Some Girls
Type = studio
prev_track = "Beast of Burden"
prev_no = 9
this_track = "Shattered"
track_no = 10
next_track =
next_no =

"Shattered" is a song by The Rolling Stones from their 1978 album "Some Girls". The song is seen as a reflection of American lifestyles and life in 1970s-era New York City, but also influences from the English punk movement can be heard.

Recorded from October to December 1977, "Shattered" features lyrics by Mick Jagger on a guitar riff by Keith Richards. Jagger commented in a "Rolling Stone" interview that he wrote the lyrics in the back of a New York cab. "Shattered" was released as a single in the US and in 1979 climbed to #31 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Stones memorably performed the song live for an episode of "Saturday Night Live" during which Jagger apparently licked Wood's lips and tore his shirt off. The track was featured on WKRP in Cincinnati on the episode "Pilot: Part Two"

A live version was captured during their 1981 tour of America and released on the 1982 live album ""Still Life"". A second version, captured during the band's A Bigger Bang Tour, appears on "Shine a Light". It would act as the opening song for the 1981 compilation "Sucking in the Seventies" and in 2002 the Stones included it on their career retrospective, "Forty Licks".

External links

* [http://www.rollingstones.com/discog/index.php?v=so&a=1&id=219 Complete official lyrics]