Slipping Away

About Slipping Away

"Slipping Away" is a song by the Rolling Stones featured on their 1989 album Steel Wheels. It is sung by guitarist Keith Richards. Credited to Richards and Mick Jagger, "Slipping Away" is a slow ballad, a form of music Richards would embrace on the Stones' later albums. It was recorded at Montserrat's Air Studios between March and June 1989. With Richards singing, he and Ron Wood perform the song's electric guitars. Bill Wyman provides the prominent bass while Charlie Watts performs drums. The organ and piano are performed by Chuck Leavell and electric piano by Matt Clifford. The song's brass is provided by the Kick Horns. Backing vocals are performed by Richards, Jagger, Bernard Fowler, Sarah Dash, and Lisa Fischer. Richards recorded a re-worked acoustic version for the 1995 live album Stripped. Of the song he said at the time, "(When we recorded it for Stripped) we realized, 'Wow, that song kind of slipped away.' It just kind of tailed off at the end of Steel Wheels. We realized what potential it still had, and the band and especially the horn guys said, 'You've got to do that!' So in a way, I agreed to do it at gun point. But when I got into it, I really liked singing that song. It's got some depth."The Stones have since performed "Slipping Away" during the 1995 leg of the Voodoo Lounge Tour, the 2002-2003 Licks Tour throughout the 2005-2007 A Bigger Bang Tour, on the 14 On Fire tour with former guitarist Mick Taylor guesting, and on the 2017 No Filter Tour. more »

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1989

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Guess it's just another dream 
That's slipping away 
Each time I fall asleep 
It seems, drifting away 
Just as you have touched my heart 
Babe I wake and we're apart 
Yeah and it's slipping away 

Here comes just another day 
That's drifting away 
Every time I draw a breath 
It's dying away 
First the sun and then the moon 
One of them will be 'round soon 
Slipping away 
Slipping away (Oh yeah)

Drifting away 
Slipping away 

Just as you have touched my heart 
I wake up babe and we're apart 
It seems we're slipping away 
Slipping away 
Slipping away 

All I want is ecstasy 
But I ain't getting much 
Just getting off on misery 
It seems I've lost my touch 

Well it's just another song 
But it's slipping away 
Well we didn't sing it long 
'Cause, fading away 
Just the sun and then the moon 
One of them will be 'round soon 
Slipping away 
Slipping away 
Slipping away

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in Dartford in 1962. The earliest settled line-up consisted of Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica), Ian Stewart (keyboards, piano), Mick Jagger (lead vocals, harmonica), Keith Richards (guitar, vocals), Bill Wyman (bass) and Charlie Watts (drums). Since Wyman's retirement in 1993, the band's full members have been Jagger, Richards, Watts and guitarist Ronnie Wood who joined in 1975. Darryl Jones (bassist) and Chuck Leavell (keyboardist) are regular contributors but not full band members. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted the Rolling Stones in 1989, noting that "critical acclaim and popular consensus has accorded them the title of the “World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band.”Rolling Stone magazine ranked them 4… more »

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