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"Under My Thumb" is a song recorded by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards , "Under My Thumb" features a marimba played by Brian Jones . [ 3 ] Although it was never released as a single in English-speaking countries, it is one of the band's more popular songs from the mid-1960s and appears on ...
By 1974, "Under My Thumb" had become well known on the Northern soul club scene, and it was reissued on the Pye Disco Demand label. [6] It rose to No. 17 on the UK chart in late 1974, [5] and Gibson briefly re-emerged to promote it on Top of the Pops. [9]
Streetheart released a single in 1979, a disco-hybrid cover version of "Under My Thumb" by the Rolling Stones. For the next four years they released a string of albums: Quicksand Shoes (1980), Drugstore Dancer (1980), Action: Best of Streetheart (1981), the self-titled Streetheart (1982), [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Dancing with Danger (1983), and the double ...
While songs such as "Stupid Girl" and "Under My Thumb" may be misogynistic, they are also interpreted as dark representations of the narrator's hateful masculinity. Misogyny, as on "Under My Thumb", "may be just a tool for restoring the fragile narcissism and arrogance of the male narrator", muses the music scholar Norma Coates. [65]
The film was released as Rocks Off in Germany in 1982 with slightly different footage and an additional song, "When the Whip Comes Down" (following "Under My Thumb"), performed at Sun Devil Stadium. Lions Gate Entertainment released the film on DVD in the United States on 2 November 2010.
Kenny Shields (October 24, 1947—July 21, 2017) was a Canadian musician and the lead singer of rock band Streetheart, known for singing various hits, including "Action," "Hollywood," "Look in Your Eyes," "What Kind of Love Is This," and a cover of The Rolling Stones classic "Under My Thumb."
"Under My Thumb" (Stopped following the fracas involving Meredith Hunter, then restarted; after this, the violence subsided for the remainder of the concert.) "Brown Sugar" (Debut live performance of the song; the studio version had been recorded only two days earlier in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.) "Midnight Rambler"
Under Heaven Over Hell is the second studio album by Canadian rock band Streetheart, released in 1979. [2] The band's covers of Under My Thumb (The Rolling Stones), and Here Comes the Night , both charted in Canada. In December 1979, Under Heaven Over Hell was certified Platinum in Canada (in excess of 100,000 copies sold). [3]