Wanna Hold You

"Wanna Hold You" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones on their 1983 album Undercover.

"Wanna Hold You"
Song by The Rolling Stones
from the album Undercover
Released7 November 1983
RecordedNovember - December 1982
GenrePop rock
Length3:52
LabelRolling Stones/Virgin
Songwriter(s)Jagger/Richards
Producer(s)The Glimmer Twins and Chris Kimsey
Undercover track listing
10 tracks
Side one
  1. "Undercover of the Night"
  2. "She Was Hot"
  3. "Tie You Up (The Pain of Love)"
  4. "Wanna Hold You"
  5. "Feel On Baby"
Side two
  1. "Too Much Blood"
  2. "Pretty Beat Up"
  3. "Too Tough"
  4. "All the Way Down"
  5. "It Must Be Hell"

Although credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Wanna Hold You" is largely a Richards composition. The song was written in a recording studio in Paris in the basement of a house of one of Richards' acquaintances. Richards describes the song's structure as being "very early sort of Lennon & McCartney, let alone the title, which suggest "I Want to Hold Your Hand". The first recording of the song, of which Richards claims to have the original tape, had only Richards on guitar and vocals and Jagger on drums.[1]

The lyrics deal with the often-used topic of a poor man having nothing but love to give to a woman, as the following line illustrates:

I hope you find it funny that I've got no money - but if you stick with me you're going to get some love for free

During the Rolling Stones' Bridges To Babylon Tour, "Wanna Hold You" was a regular part of the mini-set sung by Richards and was performed 99 times (of 107 concerts in total).[2]

References
  1. "Wanna Hold You". Time Is On Our Side. Retrieved 8 December 2008.
  2. "Bridges to Babylon song statistics". setlist.fm. Retrieved 8 December 2008.
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