"Live with Me" is a song by

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from their album ''

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'', released in December 1969. It was the first song recorded with the band's new guitarist

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, who joined the band in June 1969, although the first record the band released with Taylor was the single version of " Honky Tonk Women". Taylor later described the recording of "Live with Me" as "kind of the start of that particular era for the Stones, where Keith and I traded licks."Bill Janovitz, ''Rocks Off: 50 Tracks That Tell the Story of the Rolling Stones'' (

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. The song also marks the first time the Stones recorded with tenor saxophonist Bobby Keys (who played on many Stones records thereafter), and the only time Leon Russell would play with the Stones. Russell and

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contributed piano to the piece. Written by

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and Richards, "Live with Me" was recorded on 24 May 1969. As Taylor joined the band weeks later, his guitar part was dubbed over the basic track. Along with " Country Honk", this was one of the two songs on ''Let it Bleed'' that guitarist Mick Taylor played on. He and Keith Richards created an original 2-lead guitar sound. The song's lyrics were cited as the reason the London Bach Choir asked not to be credited for their contribution to "

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". The poet X. J. Kennedy suggested that the lyrics are part of a tradition of responses, beginning with

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and

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and continuing through C. Day-Lewis, to Christopher Marlowe's "

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". Marlowe's poem begins "Come live with me and be my love". Although never released as a single, the song has been frequently performed live, and concert versions appear on the albums '' Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!'', '' No Security'', and '' Light the Fuse'', as well as the 1996 " Wild Horses" (live) single and the '' Rarities 1971–2003'' compilation album. A live version recorded in 1971 at the Roundhouse appears on the 2015 Deluxe edition bonus disc of '' Sticky Fingers'', likewise a live version recorded at University of Leeds in 1971 featured in the album ''Get Yer Leeds Leeds Lungs Out'' (exclusively released on the 2015's Super Deluxe edition of ''Sticky Fingers''). The song was performed live with

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for the concert film '' Shine a Light'', and appears on the accompanying

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Personnel

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vocals *

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guitar, bass guitar *

guitar *

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drums Additional Personnel *

piano * Bobby Keystenor saxophone * Leon Russellpiano, horn arrangement

References

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