"Actually this is Bill Wyman's song. On the album version, you can hear Bill snoring at the end. One night when Bill fell asleep in the studio, Mick and Keith recorded him snoring and tagged it onto the end of his song without him knowing. Bill didn't find out until he listened to the final version of the album. The snoring doesn't appear on the single".
Although it would be fun to be able to post the live performance from April In Paris, with Mick addressing the crowd afterwards in schoolboy French...
(Mick) Merci bien ... merci ... Ici Charles (come on...) Charles ne parle pas francais ... Patience ... (Charlie) We would like to play for you one of our favourite numbers: this one's called Little Red Rooster
Here's the actual song, but Mick's French has been cut:
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2011-09-26 20:49 by Green Lady.
Several cover versions about on YouTube, but nobody else comes anywhere near the rhythm guitar on the original... Whoever posted this one at least included some "random shit from my I phone" as a video instead of just an album cover picture. Nice black cat at 1.02 (not in a thunderstorm)...
After so many tracks with only two or three videos to choose from, there are too many to count for JJF... everybody has covered it on everything, even the ukelele... No, I won't inflict that one on you. Here's a cover that jumps about in a very satisfactory way:
And here's one from the film of the same name, featuring Mr. Richards:
But here's the genuine article, and Mr J. Jack Flash himself to sing it for you: