Schoolboy Blues

"Schoolboy Blues" is a 1970 song by The Rolling Stones, commonly recognized by the name "Cocksucker Blues". The song is based on Dr. John's "The Lonesome Guitar Strangler", released on his 1969 album Babylon. It was written and played by Mick Jagger to be the Stones' final single for Decca Records. The Stones were leaving Decca and starting their own record label, but Decca claimed they were owed one more single under the band's current contract. The Stones thence delivered this song, with its context and language chosen specifically to anger Decca executives (there are explicit references to fellatio, anal sex and bestiality in the lyrics). Decca refused to issue the song as part of an album.

For The Rolling Stones film, see Cocksucker Blues.

Decca retaliated by releasing a compilation album called Stone Age, a collection of Stones songs previously released under Decca; this angered the Stones, who felt that the Decca release would cut into sales of their own forthcoming album to be released under their new label. The Stones publicly denounced Stone Age, which went on to be a top-ten hit in Britain nevertheless.

The Rolling Stones recording of the track has never been released officially in any form. All available formats, like a 1983 German flexi-disc, are unofficial releases. During rehearsals for the 1978 North American tour in Woodstock, New York, the song was rehearsed in an electric guitar setting and with Sugar Blue on harp. The song was covered by Australian group Beasts of Bourbon as "Cocksucker Blues" on their 1991 album "The Low Road".

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