trust me to be thinkin of food but....

found this...

[en.allexperts.com]

it quotes Delia Smith as the cake maker??? can this be confirmed?.

just curious..

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> trust me to be thinkin of food but....
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> found this...
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> [en.allexperts.com]
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> it quotes Delia Smith as the cake maker??? can
> this be confirmed?.
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> just curious..



Yep. Delia made it. Maybe they should change the name of the album to 'Let's Be 'Avin' You" as a tribute.

See thats what I like about this forum- always finding out about even the smallest Stones trivia.

Yeah Gazza- that 'Let's Be 'Avin' You' was not her best moment but funny to see!

ROCKMAN

Christ, Rockman, how do you manage to get these pictures up so quick?!

It's all in the wrist.......



ROCKMAN

looks a bit "chewy" to me with that bike tyre in there.....

yeah you know so you'd chew till your gums bleed...
bet that's not what they thought though.

Remember when MOJO thieved it.......





ROCKMAN

Bleeding is a common term in record mixing, when you can hear, say the drums on the vocal take or on any other take. To avoid that, people began recording in booths, which is, not that much of a social experience, to say the least.

So I can imagine any of the Stones, well rather of the Glimmer Twins, saying to the engineer, after being asked to do yet another take because of this phenomenon:

"Aah f#@% man! Let it bleed!"

And there you have your album title.



I still wonder how Steel Wheels became an album title. Where's the double meaning in that one?

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> See thats what I like about this forum- always
> finding out about even the smallest Stones
> trivia.
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> Yeah Gazza- that 'Let's Be 'Avin' You' was not her
> best moment but funny to see!


here it is....gotta love the headline - "Delia Smith Being A Twat"

Ordered by one of our IORR friends for her Austrian friends at Sticky Fingers - the night before the last show in London:

Wow little queenie..dem green jubes on Keith's side sure are bleeding......



ROCKMAN

From Sean Egan's book on the making of Let it Bleed:

In a scarcely twist of fate, the sponge layer of the cake on the cover of this utterly decadent album was baked by Delia Smith.

Smith is now a household name - at least to British audiences - as a TV chef and author (one of her cookery books was one of the fastest-selling tomes in history) and is the epitome of clean-cut. At the time she was less well known, working for a food photographer, but had started her own column in the compact Daily Mirror.

"One day they said they wanted a cake for a Rolling Stones record cover", she said later. "it was another job at the time. They wanted it to be very over the top and as gaudy as I could make it."

Chkiantz recalls, "She was shacking up with a bloke who was staying at a friend of mine's apartment. Neither of them had a clue how to cook and it was this friend of mine who told them how to cook a sponge cake. She was too busy to do anything very much else."

It's not known how much of Brownjohn's £1000 budget was spent on Smith's cake.

(page 161, from the middle)

incredibly, the lovely Delia is the same age as Charlie !

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...... another classic piece of ART embellishing the rolling stones, something to admire...
sticky fingers and bleed was such a heavy weight one-two punch, besides the audio, the packaging was just superb, non forgetable...

I heard somewhere (don't remember where) "Let it Bleed" was a play on "Let it Be"..any truth to that?

My goodness, this discussion takes the cake!

(Great pics, RMan, and LQ, quite the dessert there!)

>> "Let it Bleed" was a play on "Let it Be" <<

it seems pretty plain, yeah. as has often been noted, the Beatles album came out a few months later,
but the song Let It Be had been around for a while, and it does seem like a form of humour
that plays on the title, the two groups' images and the "who copies who" issue all at once.

here's some hedging on the subject from Keith in 71:

"[It didn't have] a thing [to do with the Beatles' Let It Be]. Just a coincidence because
you're working along the same lines at the same time at the same age as a lot of other cats.
All trying to do the same thing basically, turn themselves and other people on. Let It Bleed
was just one line in that song Mick wrote. It became the title... we just kicked a line out ...
We dug that song so ... maybe there was some influence because Let It Be had been kicked around
for years for their movie, for that album. Let it be something. Let it out. Let it loose."
- Keith Richards, 1971 quoted on [www.timeisonourside.com]

Altamont happening right on the heels of the album's release was pretty unfortunate -
i mean of course murder during a concert is thoroughly unfortunate anyway, but the album title didn't help much
in defending the band against the claim that they were into human sacrifice as a marketing ploy or something ...
ahem: sorry, i digress!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2007-10-12 09:35 by with sssoul.

[newsimg.bbc.co.uk] Pic BBC

I've read somewhere a tale about the producer insisting on doing take after take after take of a track, trying to get some particular drum sound that only he could hear, and eventually Keith pointed out to him, quite politely given the circumstances, that if they were going for a final take that day they'd better do it now, because his fingers were actually dripping blood....

This may be in the Sean Egan book (which I haven't got handy as I'm at work) but it's yet another legend about the naming of Let It Bleed. Does anybody have the details?

It is, Green Lady. It's in the 'You Got the Silver' chapter. Page 89-90.

From the book:

Chkiantz has a feeling that it was 'You Got The Silver' that the Stones were recording when Jimmy Miller's - to him - over-fussy production style caused Richards to bleed

i think the way i heard it, Green Lady, Mick and Jimmy were arguing about something at length,
and Keith kept playing his acoustic the whole time, finally interrupting them to point out
that he'd really like to cut the track that day, since he had the sound he wanted.
and there he was bleeding all over his guitar. whoever it was who was relating the story
(Andy Johns? someone like that) noted: "he must've been in considerable pain."

"lets be having you"

-a 'refreshed' Delia. March 2005