The music for the song was recorded a decade earlier, intended to be part of "Goats Head Soup." But the song lacked something then (lyrics, according to Jagger) and was only finished for 1981's "Tattoo You." The sax solo was added then too.
BTW, That's not Keith Richards playing guitar on "Waiting For A Friend;" it's Mick Taylor -- the forgotten Stone -- the one who just happened to be along during the band's peak (he replaced Brian Jones but quit in 1974). Taylor was not credited for "Waiting On A Friend" and ended up suing the Glimmer Twins and winning.
Other related trivia: In the beginning of the video, Mick Jagger is waiting for Keith Richards in a doorway. The building is the same one made famous earlier on the cover of Led Zeppelin's album "Physical Graffiti:"
I remember when that video first came out and was played to death on MTV. Rewatching it, I had the exact same reaction I had then: look how ashen Keith Richards' complexion is.
That man will outlive us all.
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There is a Jimmy Page lookalike in the video.
Maybe not.
Little shorter than Jimmy.
Not Ron Wood...
That man will outlive us all.
He seems to squeeze a lot of living out of every day. In that sense he's already outlived a lot of us. - Haven't seen that video in years. Always kinda liked it.
Whenever a celebrity or music star dies, Keith Richards undergoes the Quickening.
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