Made in the Shade explained

Made in the Shade
Type:	greatest
Artist:	The Rolling Stones
Cover:	Made in shade album cover.jpg
Released:	6 June 1975
Recorded:	December 1969 – May 1974
Genre:	Rock
Length:	39:35
Label:	Rolling Stones/Atlantic
Producer:	Jimmy Miller, The Glimmer Twins
Prev Title:	It's Only Rock 'n Roll
Prev Year:	1974
Next Title:	Metamorphosis
Next Year:	1975

Made in the Shade, released in 1975, is the third official compilation album by the Rolling Stones, and the first under their Atlantic Records contract. It covers material from Sticky Fingers (1971), Exile on Main St. (1972), Goats Head Soup (1973) and It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (1974).

Background

The Stones had two previous "official" compilation albums on Decca Records, Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) in 1966 and Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) in 1969. In addition, 1971's Hot Rocks 1964–1971 and 1972's More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) were released by Allen Klein's ABKCO Records without The Rolling Stones' authorisation.

The material on Made in the Shade surveys the highlights from the band's first four post-Decca/London era thus far, with no new material.

Although Made in the Shade bought The Rolling Stones time to deliver their next studio album (they were midway through recording Black and Blue upon this album's June 1975 release), it was also released to capitalize on the band's summer Tour of the Americas.

Release and reception

Made in the Shade, which had to compete with the latest cash-in ABKCO release—this time an outtakes compilation called Metamorphosis—reached No. 14 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 6 on the US Billboard 200, eventually going platinum.^[1] Subsequent Rolling Stones compilation albums have also anthologised tracks included on this album.

Robert Christgau writes in his review: "Six tracks from two of the greatest albums of the decade and four from two of the more dubious ones. Not the four best, either."

In 2005, Made in the Shade was remastered and reissued by Virgin Records.

Track listing

All tracks written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

1. "Brown Sugar" – 3:48
2. "Tumbling Dice" – 3:45
3. "Happy" – 3:04
4. "Dance Little Sister" – 4:11
5. "Wild Horses" – 5:42
6. "Angie" – 4:33
7. "Bitch" – 3:38
8. "It's Only Rock'n Roll (But I Like It)" – 5:07
9. "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" – 3:26
10. "Rip This Joint" – 2:22

Personnel

The Rolling Stones

• Mick Jagger – lead vocals, backing vocals, percussion, electric guitar
• Keith Richards – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals ; bass guitar, lead vocals
• Mick Taylor – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, slide guitar ; bass guitar, backing vocals
• Bill Wyman – bass guitar
• Charlie Watts – drums

Additional Personnel

• Bobby Keys – tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, tambourine
• Ian Stewart – piano
• Nicky Hopkins – piano
• Jimmy Miller – drums, percussion
• Clydie King, Venetta Fields, Sherlie Matthews – backing vocals
• Jim Price – trumpet, trombone, horn arrangement
• Jim Dickinson – piano
• Nicky Harrison – string arrangement
• David Bowie – backing vocals
• Kenney Jones – drums
• Willie Weeks – bass guitar
• Ronnie Wood – twelve-string acoustic guitar, backing vocals
• Billy Preston – clavinet, piano
• Chuck Findley – trumpet
• Jim Horn – alto saxophone
• Bill Plummer – double bass

Charts

Chart (1975)! scope="col"

Peak position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)^[2]	71
Italian Albums (Musica e Dischi)^[3]	20

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gold & Platinum. Recording Industry Association of America. 19 May 2021.
2. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6.
3. Web site: Classifiche. Musica e Dischi. it. 27 May 2022. Set "Tipo" on "Album". Then, in the "Artista" field, search "Rolling Stones".