Sleep Tonight

Album: Dirty Work (1986)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is a lullaby written by Keith Richards on the piano. He sang lead.
  • The last song on Dirty Work. Ian Stewart, the piano player and road manager who was considered the "Sixth Stone," died of a heart attack on December 12, 1985, after the album was completed but before its release. Thirty seconds of his piano playing was added to the end of this as a tribute to him.

Comments: 2

  • Demian from Buenos Aires, Argentinathe dirty work album was written by keith, only by keith.
  • Skip from Mandeville, LaKeith managed to rip off his own bridge from Goats Head Soup's Coming Down Again for the basis of Sleep Tonight.
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