Let It Bleed - Live

Keith Richards' fingers began to bleed as he played acoustic guitar for hours while Mick Jagger worked with an engineer on the drum track. The title came from Keith's desire to record his track. At least that's the story the band tells. Here's an alternate meaning: The phrase "Let It Bleed" is intravenous drug user slang for successfully finding a vein. The syringe plunger is pulled back and if blood appears, is called letting it bleed.

This was the first Stones song to also be the album title.

Ian Stewart, often considered "The sixth Stone," played the piano. This was his only appearance on Let It Bleed.