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Start Me Up

Start Me Up
Single information
NameStart Me Up
ArtistThe Rolling Stones
AlbumTattoo You
B-side"No Use In Crying"
Released14 August 1981
Format7"
Recorded1979 (Basic track), 1980-1981 (Vocals and overdubs)
GenreHard rock
Length3:33
LabelRolling Stones
SongwriterJagger/Richards
ProducerThe Glimmer Twins
Previous single"She's So Cold"
(1981)
Next single"Waiting on a Friend"
(1981)

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"Start Me Up" is a song by The Rolling Stones featured on the 1981 album Tattoo You. Released as the album's lead single, it reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #7 on the UK Singles Chart.

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Music video by Glee Cast performing Start Me Up / Livin' On A Prayer (Glee Cast Version). (c) 2010 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
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my name is gerry (jerry) phillips and i have been playing songs on my hands for 38 years! in honor of youtube's living legends kick off with the rolling stones. here's my version of start me up! i used a digitech whammy pedal on this song.
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The Rolling Stones first show in Mainland China "Start Me Up" live. Get the latest album from The Rolling Stones "Shine A Light" the soundtrack from the Martin Scorsese film now in theaters. www.rollingstones.com/shineali ght/soundtrack.php
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Preceded by
"You Weren't in Love with Me" by Billy Field
Australian Kent Music Report number-one single
November 9, 1981
Succeeded by
"Physical" by Olivia Newton-John

The Rolling Stones

UK studio albums
1964 �1967
The Rolling Stones (1964) * The Rolling Stones No. 2 (1965) * Out of Our Heads (1965) * Aftermath (1966) * Between the Buttons (1967)
US studio albums
1964 �1967
England's Newest Hit Makers (1964) * 12 X 5 (1964) * The Rolling Stones, Now! (1965) * Out of Our Heads (1965) * December's Children (And Everybody's) (1965) * Aftermath (1966) * Between the Buttons (1967)
Studio albums
1967 �present
Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967) * Beggars Banquet (1968) * Let It Bleed (1969) * Sticky Fingers (1971) * Exile on Main St. (1972) * Goats Head Soup (1973) * It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (1974) * Black and Blue (1976) * Some Girls (1978) * Emotional Rescue (1980) * Tattoo You (1981) * Undercover (1983) * Dirty Work (1986) * Steel Wheels (1989) * Voodoo Lounge (1994) * Bridges to Babylon (1997) * A Bigger Bang (2005)
UK EPsThe Rolling Stones (1964) * Five by Five (1964) * Got Live If You Want It! (1965)
Live albumsGot Live If You Want It! (US only) (1966) * Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert (1970) * Love You Live (1977) * "Still Life" (American Concert 1981) (1982) * Flashpoint (1991) * Stripped (1995) * No Security (1998) * Live Licks (2004) * Shine a Light (2008)
CompilationsBig Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (1966) * Flowers (US) (1967) * Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) (1969) * Made in the Shade (1975) * Time Waits for No One: Anthology 1971 �1977 (1979) * Sucking in the Seventies (1981) * Rewind (1971 �1984) (1984) * Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones (1993) * Forty Licks (2002) * Rarities 1971 �2003 (2005) * Exile on Main St. (Rarities Edition) (2010)
Post-contract
ABKCO albums
Hot Rocks 1964 �1971 (1971) * More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) (1972) * Metamorphosis (1975) * Singles Collection: The London Years (1989) * The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1996) * Singles 1963 �1965 (2004) * Singles 1965 �1967 (2004) * Singles 1968 �1971 (2005) * Rolled Gold: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones (2007)
Post-contract
Decca albums
Stone Age (1971) * Gimme Shelter (1971) * Milestones (1972) * Rock 'n' Rolling Stones (1972) * No Stone Unturned (1973) * Rolled Gold: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones (1975) * Solid Rock (1980) * Slow Rollers (1981)
Miscellaneous albumsJamming with Edward! (1972)
Box setsThe Rolling Stones Box Set (2009)
DVD releasesStones at the Max (1992) * The Rolling Stones: Voodoo Lounge Live (1995) * Bridges to Babylon Tour '97 �98 (1998) * Four Flicks (2003) * The Biggest Bang (2007)
DocumentariesGimme Shelter (1970) * Cocksucker Blues (1972) * Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones (1974) * 25x5 � The Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones (1989) * Shine a Light (2008) * Stones in Exile (2010)
ToursEuropean Tour 1967 * American Tour 1969 * European Tour 1970 * UK Tour 1971 * American Tour 1972 * Pacific Tour 1973 * European Tour 1973 * Tour of the Americas '75 * Tour of Europe '76 * US Tour 1978 * American Tour 1981 * European Tour 1982 * Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour * Voodoo Lounge Tour * Bridges to Babylon Tour * No Security Tour * Licks Tour * A Bigger Bang Tour
CollaboratorsBlondie Chaplin * Lisa Fischer * Bernard Fowler * Nicky Hopkins * Darryl Jones * Bobby Keys * Chuck Leavell * Ian McLagan * Billy Preston * Jim Price
Producers and managementAndrew Loog Oldham * Allen Klein * Jimmy Miller * The Glimmer Twins * Steve Lillywhite * Chris Kimsey * Don Was
Related articlesDiscography * Jagger/Richards * Nanker Phelge * Rolling Stones Records * Altamont Free Concert * Rolling Stones Mobile Studio * The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus * The Mick Jagger Centre * Peter Meaden

The Rolling Stones singles discography

Decca/London singles1963: "Come On" / "I Want to Be Loved" * "I Wanna Be Your Man" / "Stoned"
1964: "Not Fade Away" / "Little by Little" (UK) * "Not Fade Away" / "I Wanna Be Your Man" (US) * "It's All Over Now" / "Good Times, Bad Times" * "Tell Me" / "I Just Want to Make Love to You" * "Time Is on My Side" / "Congratulations" * "Little Red Rooster" / "Off the Hook" * "Heart of Stone" / "What a Shame"
1965: "What a Shame" / "Heart of Stone" * "The Last Time" / "Play with Fire" * "Play with Fire" / "The Last Time" * "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" / "The Under-Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" (US) * "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" / "The Spider and the Fly" (UK) * "Get Off of My Cloud" / "I'm Free" (US) * "Get Off of My Cloud" / "The Singer Not the Song" (UK) * "As Tears Go By" / "Gotta Get Away"
1966: "19th Nervous Breakdown" / "As Tears Go By" (UK) * "19th Nervous Breakdown" / "Sad Day" (US) * "Paint It, Black" / "Stupid Girl" (US) * "Paint It, Black" / "Long Long While" (UK) * "Mother's Little Helper" / "Lady Jane" * "Lady Jane" / "Mother's Little Helper" * "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" / "Who's Driving Your Plane"
1967: "Let's Spend the Night Together" / "Ruby Tuesday" * "Ruby Tuesday" / "Let's Spend the Night Together" * "We Love You" / "Dandelion" * "Dandelion" / "We Love You" * "In Another Land" / "The Lantern" * "She's a Rainbow" / "2000 Light Years from Home"
1968: "Jumpin' Jack Flash" / "Child of the Moon" * "Street Fighting Man" / "No Expectations" *
1969: "Honky Tonk Women" / "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Rolling Stones/Atlantic
singles
1971: "Brown Sugar" / "Bitch" / "Let It Rock" (live) (UK) * "Brown Sugar" / "Bitch" (US) * "Wild Horses" / "Sway" * "Street Fighting Man" / "Surprise, Surprise"
1972: "Tumbling Dice" / "Sweet Black Angel" * "Happy" / "All Down the Line"
1973: "You Can't Always Get What You Want" / "Sad Day" * "Angie" / "Silver Train" * "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" / "Dancing with Mr. D"
1974: "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" / "Through the Lonely Nights" * "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" / "Dance Little Sister"
1975: "I Don't Know Why" / "Try a Little Harder" * "Out of Time" / "Jiving Sister Fanny"
1976: "Fool to Cry" / "Crazy Mama" * "Hot Stuff" / "Fool to Cry"
Rolling Stones/Virgin
singles
1978: "Miss You" / "Far Away Eyes" * "Beast of Burden" / "When the Whip Comes Down" * "Respectable" / "When the Whip Comes Down" * "Shattered" / "Everything Is Turning to Gold"
1980: "Emotional Rescue" / "Down in the Hole" * "She's So Cold" / "Send It to Me"
1981: "If I Was a Dancer (Dance Pt. 2)" / "If I Was a Dancer (Dance Pt. 2)" * "Start Me Up" / "No Use In Crying" * "Waiting on a Friend" / "Little T&A" * "Little T&A" / "Waiting on a Friend"
1982: "Hang Fire" / "Neighbours" * "Going to a Go-Go" (live) / "Beast of Burden" (live) * "Time Is on My Side" (live) / "Twenty Flight Rock" (live)
1983: "Undercover of the Night" / "All the Way Down"
1984: "She Was Hot" / "Think I'm Going Mad" * "Think I'm Going Mad" / "She Was Hot" * "Too Tough" / "Miss You" * "Brown Sugar" / "Bitch" * "Too Much Blood" / "Too Much Blood"
1986: "Harlem Shuffle" / "Had It With You" * "Winning Ugly" / "Winning Ugly" * "One Hit (To the Body)" / "Fight"
1989: "Mixed Emotions" / "Fancy Man Blues" * "Sad Sad Sad" / "Sad Sad Sad" * "Rock and a Hard Place" / "Cook Cook Blues"
1990: "Almost Hear You Sigh" / "Break the Spell" (US) * "Almost Hear You Sigh" / "Wish I'd Never Met You" (UK) * "Paint It, Black" / "Long Long While" * "Terrifying" / "Wish I'd Never Met You"
1991: "Highwire" / "2000 Light Years from Home" (live) * "Ruby Tuesday" (live) / "Play with Fire" (live) * "Sex Drive" / "Sex Drive"
Virgin singles1994: "Love Is Strong" / "The Storm" * "Love Is Strong" / "So Young" * "You Got Me Rocking" / "Jump On Top of Me" * "Out of Tears" / "I'm Gonna Drive" / "So Young" * "Out of Tears" / "I'm Gonna Drive" / "Sparks Will Fly"
1995: "Sparks Will Fly" / "Sparks Will Fly" * "I Go Wild" / (remixes) * "Like a Rolling Stone" (live) / "Black Limousine" / "All Down the Line"
1996: "Wild Horses" (live) / "Live with Me" (live) / "Tumbling Dice" (live)
1997: "Anybody Seen My Baby?" / (remixes) * "Flip the Switch" / "Flip the Switch"
1998: "Saint of Me" / "Gimme Shelter" / "Anyway You Look At It" * "Out of Control" / (remixes) * "Gimme Shelter" (live) / "Gimme Shelter" (live)
2002: "Don't Stop" / "Miss You" (remix)
2003: "Sympathy for the Devil" (remix) / (remixes)
2005: "Streets of Love" / "Rough Justice" * "Oh No, Not You Again" / "Oh No, Not You Again" * "Rain Fall Down" / (remixes)
2006: "Biggest Mistake" / "Dance Pt. 1" (live) / "Before They Make Me Run"
2007: "Paint It, Black"
2008: "Gimme Shelter" * "Sympathy for the Devil" * "She's a Rainbow"
2009: "Wild Horses"
2010: "Plundered My Soul" / "All Down the Line"



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