The Rolling Stones Recorded ‘Satisfaction’ Fifty Years Ago Today

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Keith: We recorded ‘Satisfaction’ at RCA studios in Los Angeles. This time everything went right. Charlie put down a different tempo and, with the addition of a fuzz box on my guitar which took off all the treble, we achieved a very interesting sound.”

Mick: We cut ‘Satisfaction’ in Los Angeles when we were working there. We cut quite a lot of things and that wa just one -contrary to some newspaper reports, it took us just half an hour to make. We like it, but didn’t think of it as a single.”

Quotes from ‘Rolling Stones: Off the Record’ By Mark Paytress

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The Rolling Stones at a press conference at the Beverly Rodeo Hotel, Los Angeles, 1965. Left to right: Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Rolling Stones at a press conference at the Beverly Rodeo Hotel, Los Angeles, 1965. Left to right: Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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