{"id":321168,"date":"2025-11-29T21:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/321168\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:22:09","slug":"the-rolling-stones-song-that-took-linda-ronstadts-catalogue-up-a-notch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/321168\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rolling Stones song that took Linda Ronstadt\u2019s catalogue up a notch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Linda<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ Linda Ronstadt)<\/p>\n

Sat 29 November 2025 18:11, UK <\/p>\n

As far as Linda Ronstadt is concerned, Mick Jagger<\/a> is the ultimate frontman.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s seen plenty of people try to be him over the years, and she\u2019s seen plenty of people fail. As she puts it herself, \u201cIt seemed to me, when I saw the Ramones, for instance, that they had taken one facet of what Mick Jagger does, which is a kind of stance, maybe one move and maybe one little chip off of an emotional statement, and it was sort of limited to that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Heaping praise on her old \u2018Gimme Shelter\u2019 singing pal, she added, \u201cMick Jagger has such a tremendous overview that is so many-faceted that it makes it sound so much more. But if you just take a chunk of it, it doesn\u2019t glimmer as much.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not just that compliment that pouting, punching, punky Mick has to thank Linda for. The pair go way back, and she even proved pivotal when it comes to one Stones track.<\/p>\n

\u2018Tumbling Dice\u2019 isn\u2019t the first choice for the most pro-woman song in The Rolling Stones<\/a>\u2018 catalogue. It\u2019s certainly not the worst \u2013 perhaps \u2018Under My Thumb\u2019 or \u2018Stupid Girl\u2019 would take that crown. But the classic Exile on Main St cut largely revolves around Mick Jagger and some of his more salacious thoughts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While he does offer a position to his lover as his \u201cpartner in crime\u201d, Jagger usually kicks off the song by claiming, \u201cWomen think I\u2019m tasty (\u201ccrazy\u201d in live versions) \/ And they\u2019re always tryin\u2019 to waste me\u201d, establishing the divide between the sexes.<\/p>\n

Strangely enough, Jagger got some lyrical help from a notable woman in his life \u2013 his housekeeper. \u201cIt started out with a great riff from Keith, and we had it down as a completed song called \u2018Good Time Women\u2019,\u201d Jagger told The Sun in 2010. \u201cThat take is one of the bonus tracks on the new Exile package; it was quite fast and sounded great, but I wasn\u2019t happy with the lyrics.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLater, I got the title in my head, \u2018call me the tumbling dice\u2019, so I had the theme for it,\u201d he added. \u201cI didn\u2019t know anything about dice playing, but I knew lots of jargon used by dice players. I\u2019d heard gamblers in casinos shouting it out. I asked my housekeeper if she played dice. She did, and she told me these terms. That was the inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, it was going to be great, but it was a big struggle,\u201d engineer Andy Johns recalled to Goldmine about the song\u2019s recording in 2010. \u201cEventually, we get a take. Hooray! I thought, \u2018Let\u2019s kick this up a notch and double-track Charlie.\u2019 \u2018Oh, we\u2019ve never done that before.\u2019 \u2018Well, it doesn\u2019t mean we can\u2019t do it now.\u2019 So we double-tracked Charlie, but he couldn\u2019t play the ending.\u201d <\/p>\n

The beat just kept defeating him. \u201cFor some reason, he got a mental block about the ending. So Jimmy Miller plays from the breakdown on out that was very easy to punch in,\u201d Johns added. \u201cIt was a little bit different than some of the others. That song, we did more takes than anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite being on the more chauvinistic side of the rock and roll divide, \u2018Tumbling Dice\u2019 eventually became one of the most famous Stones songs<\/a> covered by Ronstadt, who cut her own version in 1978. Ronstadt doesn\u2019t beat around the bush either, kicking off the song with a provocative line of her own: \u201cPeople try to rape me \/ Always think I\u2019m crazy\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe band used to play it at sound check, and we all loved it. But no one knew the words,\u201d Ronstadt told the Green Bay Press-Gazette in 1977. \u201cThen, when Mick walked backstage at my Amphitheatre show, he told me, \u2018You do too many ballads in your show, you should do more rock and roll.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI told him I thought he should do more ballads, and we teased each other about it,\u201d Ronstadt added. \u201cBut I made him write down the words to that song for me so we could do it.\u201d From that moment, her back catalogue was once again extended, heading into yet another new direction. She felt liberated by performing it publicly, encouraged by Jagger, and decided that any genre was open to her.<\/p>\n

Check out Ronstadt\u2019s version of \u2018Tumbling Dice\u2019 down below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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