Fool to Cry

Infobox Single
Name = Fool to Cry


Artist = Rolling Stones
from Album = Black and Blue
Released = April 26 1976
Format = 7"
Recorded = December 7–15, 1974
Genre = Rock
Length = 5 min 04 s
Label = Rolling Stones/Virgin
Writer = Jagger/Richards
Producer = The Glimmer Twins
Chart position =

• #6 (UK)
• #10 (USA)
  Reviews =
  Last single = "Ain't Too Proud to Beg"
  (1974)
  This single = "Fool to Cry"
  (1976)
  Next single = "Hot Stuff"
  (1976) |

  "Fool to Cry" is a song by English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from their 1976 album "Black and Blue".

  Recorded in December of 1974, the song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and is notable among songs in the Stones canon as it is a slow-paced ballad. Mick Taylor had just left the band and the rest of the Stones were left without a lead guitarist. The recording of "Black and Blue" acted as a sort of audition for new guitarists which is why session man Wayne Perkins plays guitar on this track. Jagger plays electric piano and Nicky Hopkins performs regular piano on the track, with Hopkins also playing the string synthesizer.

  Released as the lead single off "Black and Blue" on April 20, 1976, "Fool to Cry" reached number 6 on the UK Singles Charts and number 10 in the United States, becoming very popular around the world. It would be the only single from "Black and Blue" to chart highly.

  Guitarist Richards famously fell asleep while playing this song on stage in Germany. [ [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=582/ "Fool to Cry" by the Rolling Stones] . "songfacts". 2007 (accessed 25 April 2007).]

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