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with sssoul
>> But I think they owed Ron anyway for all the work he put in on "Its Only R & R "!! <<
well, the way Ronnie tells it, his reward for IORR was I Can Feel the Fire -
he and Mick co-wrote both of them, and each took one.
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Besides "giving away" Sure The One You Need (a great rocker, but not nothing extraordinary by Stones standarts at the time) I always found it strange that they gave I Can Feel The Fire to Ronnie. It is such a great tune, and could have been a hit for the Stones themselves.
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with sssoul
>> otherwise it is difficult to understand that both songs are credited to Jagger/Richards if indeed he and Mick co-wrote them! <<
ahem: some kind of confusion seems to have crept in: I Can Feel the Fire
is credited to Ronnie Wood, not Jagger/Richards. and as i noted above, the way Ronnie tells it
the reason they "gave" him Fire is that he "gave" them IORR.
if by "both songs" you meant Act Together and Sure the One You Need,
no one that i know of has ever suggested that Ronnie co-wrote either of them.
and i think Ronnie was well aware of the value of songwriting credits in 1973: the cat wrote or co-wrote
half the numbers his first band The Birds recorded, some stuff for both the Jeff Beck Group and Creation,
and a whole bunch of Faces tunes as well.
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john r
My guess is that Ron expected his '74 debut to sell better than it did.