Hand Of Fate

This song is about a man who commits murder for the love of a woman. Note the two gambling metaphors bookending the lyrics: "wheel of fortune" and the start, "my chips are down" by the end. Continuing the "hand of fate" of the title as the story of an unlucky protagonist who was simply forced into a situation he didn't create. Other songs with murder confessions in the lyrics include "The Man I Killed," "I Shot The Sheriff," "Folsom Prison Blues, and of course Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody."

Mick Taylor had left the band, and The Stones were auditioning lead guitarists while recording Black And Blue. American session man Wayne Perkins played on this track and almost got the job, but Ron Wood beat him out.

It may not raise an eyebrow now in this heady era post-Fifty Shades of Gray, but back when this song's album Black and Blue came out, it was promoted with billboards and ads featuring the model Anita Russell in bondage. The ads raised a huge uproar from the feminist community, this being 1976. View Anita Russell's own page about the matter. Russell claimed that Jagger himself did the ropework - Shibari artists may now feel free to begin their critique! Speaking of Japanese words, the cover art for the album was shot by the Japanese fashion photographer Hiro.