It was 50 years ago today (April 30th, 1971) that the Rolling Stones released their classic Sticky Fingers collection in the U.S. The set, which was released a full week earlier in the U.K., marked the band's first new music of the 1970's — as well as the first full album to feature the late-Brian Jones' replacement, guitarist Mick Taylor.
Sticky Fingers, which featured tracks culled from as far back as 1968, hit Number One on May 22nd, 1971 and topped the charts for four straight weeks, spending a total of 15 weeks in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 albums chart.
The album opened with the band’s first chart-topper of the 1970’s — “Brown Sugar” — followed by “Sway,' “Wild Horses,” “Can't You Hear Me Knocking,” “You Gotta Move,” “Bitch,” “I Got The Blues,” “Sister Morphine,” “Dead Flowers,” and “Moonlight Mile.”