View Anita Russell’s own page about the matter. The ads raised a huge uproar from the feminist community, this being 1976. It may not raise an eyebrow now in this heady era post- Fifty Shades of Gray, but back when this song’s album Black and Blue came out, it was promoted with billboards and ads featuring the model Anita Russell in bondage. American session man Wayne Perkins played on this track and almost got the job, but Ron Wood beat him out. Mick Taylor had left the band, and The Stones were auditioning lead guitarists while recording Black And Blue. Continuing the “hand of fate” of the title as the story of an unlucky protagonist who was simply forced into a situation he didn’t create.Other songs with murder confessions in the lyrics include “The Man I Killed,” “I Shot The Sheriff,” “Folsom Prison Blues, and of course Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Note the two gambling metaphors bookending the lyrics: “wheel of fortune” and the start, “my chips are down” by the end. This song is about a man who commits murder for the love of a woman. *Data taken from Martin Elliott’s book THE ROLLING STONES COMPLETE RECORDING SESSIONS 1962-2012 Guest musicians: Wayne Perkins (lead guitar), Billy Preston (piano), Ollie Brown (percussion) Recorded: Musicland Studios, Munich, Germany, MaCasino, Montreux, Switzerland, Oct-Nov. He was a barroom man, the violent kind/ He had no love for that gal of mine… *Click for MORE ROLLING STONES SONGS 1962-PRESENT
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