Start Me Up

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"Start Me Up" is a song by The Rolling Stones which was featured on the 1981 album Tattoo You.

It was first recorded in Paris during the 1977 Some Girls sessions on the same day they recorded "Miss You". The song was originally recorded as a reggae track but the band abandoned it until 1981 when they re-dubbed a one-off rock version recorded that day in Paris.

Microsoft paid $14 million to use the song for their Windows 95 advertising campaign (supposedly a wild figure that was thrown at Microsoft to see if they were serious). It was one of the first times a Rolling Stones hit song was used in a major marketing campaign.

The song reached No. 7 in the UK Singles Charts in August 1981 (and No. 2 in the US). It remains a significant single as the Stones have not been back into the UK Top 10 since. A cover by Salt-N-Pepa reached the lower position of 39 in October 1992.

The B-Side was an excellent slow blues number called 'No Use In Crying' which also featured on the Tattoo You album.

"Start Me Up" is often used to open the Stones' live shows.

The song was one of three played by the Rolling Stones at half time during the Super Bowl XL in 2006. Along with "Rough Justice" and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," Mick Jagger allegedly omitted ostensibly objectionable words from the song. It was later revealed that Jagger had not, in fact, omitted the lyrics - rather the sound on his mic had been lowered at that particular point in the song without his prior permission. [link]

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