If You Can't Rock Me - Live

This is the first track on It's Only Rock 'n' Roll, the first album after producer Jimmy Miller left the band. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards did the production instead.

This song finds Mick Jagger singing about being on stage performing for the ladies in the crowd. Is this a stereotypical Stones womanizing song, or what? Notice that other groups did songs about women all the time, but the lyrics here make it like he's personally pointing out into the audience: "You lovely ladies in your leather and lace, a thousand lips I would love to taste." He even later calls out to "that black girl in the bright blue hair." Wouldn't it be eerie to be in the audience and fit that description on the song's first stage performance?

This was one of the last Stones songs guitarist Mick Taylor played on.