{"id":798303,"date":"2019-08-07T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=867692"},"modified":"2019-08-07T08:00:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T14:00:22","slug":"flashback-rolling-stones-stevie-wonder-mash-up-uptight-and-satisfaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/flashback-rolling-stones-stevie-wonder-mash-up-uptight-and-satisfaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder Mash Up \u2018Uptight\u2019 and \u2018Satisfaction\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/steviemick.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>In the spring of 1972, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/stevie-wonder\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stevie-wonder\" data-tag=\"stevie-wonder\">Stevie Wonder<\/a> released <em>Music of My Mind<\/em> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rolling-stones\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rolling-stones\" data-tag=\"rolling-stones\">Rolling Stones<\/a> put out <em>Exile on Main Street<\/em>. Both albums were instant hits, with the former\u2019s reaching Number 21 on the <em>Billboard<\/em> 200 and <em>Exile<\/em> reaching Number One. So when the Stones recruited Wonder, then just 22, to open up their summer tour that year, it was an unstoppable combo that became even more exciting when Wonder joined the Stones at four dates for a medley of his 1966 hit \u201cUptight (Everything\u2019s Alright)\u201d and the Stones\u2019 hit from the previous year, \u201c(I Can\u2019t Get No) Satisfaction,\u201d as the encore.<\/p>\n<p>On July 26th, the second of two nights at New York City\u2019s Madison Square Garden, Mick Jagger helped Wonder to his piano and the horn section got loose. Eventually they kicked into \u201cUptight\u201d with its trumpet flourishes and Wonder sang the song with his own band backing him up. Jagger snuck up behind Wonder and clapped his hands, and eventually helped him to center stage when the song transitioned into \u201cSatisfaction,\u201d which Jagger took the lead on. Wonder joined in on the \u201cand I try\u201d parts, and the two singers started dancing in one of the most jubilant onstage rave-ups of their respective careers, jumping and holding hands and throwing things around the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Filmmakers Robert Frank and Daniel Seymour captured footage of the performance for their cin\u00e9ma v\u00e9rit\u00e9 documentary <em>Cocksucker Blues<\/em>, but the film never got an official release, due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-trouble-with-cocksucker-blues-237858\/\">the Stones suing<\/a> to keep it away from the public eye because of their misbehavior in it. The full thing is now available unofficially on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Op_TR2mdzhw?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A 1976 <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> report on the film declared the Wonder collaboration to be the highlight of the movie. \u201cOnly the brief concert scenes stick with the viewer \u2014 particularly one of Jagger and Stevie Wonder dancing during a performance of \u2018Satisfaction,&#8217;\u201d the magazine wrote. \u201cFor the most part, the film is distant and cold as death; the Stones\u2019 distance \u2014 from members of the tour, from each other, from hangers-on like Andy Warhol and Lee Radziwill \u2014 is monolithic (\u2018Bloody bunch of voyeurs,\u2019 Jagger snaps at a photographer). In the end, all that remains is the music, and even that is as unreal as the quadraphonic sterility of the film ultimately released to chronicle the 1972 tour \u2014 <em>Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1972\/07\/24\/archives\/stevie-wonder-to-open-stones-concert-at-garden.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">New York Times<\/a><\/em> interview at the time, Wonder said he mostly enjoyed the tour, aside from some venues leaving his name off the marquees and the amount of time he had to play. \u201cNo matter how many hassles we\u2019ve had, the good vibes have more than offset the bad ones,\u201d he said. \u201cMusic is like a religion to me, you know, and the more sharing that takes place between the musicians and the audience the more spiritual the music becomes. I like to have a lot of time to stretch out \u2014 to get that spirit moving \u2014 and we only get to play for 30 or 40 minutes, but we\u2019ve still managed to make a lot of people have soulful experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rolling-stones-rescheduled-dates-no-filter-tour-836010\/\">the Stones\u2019 current tour<\/a>, \u201c(I Can\u2019t Get No) Satisfaction\u201d is still their closing number, and it remains their most-performed song live. \u201cUptight\u201d also remains one of Wonder\u2019s most-performed songs, though it was usurped by another song that came out in 1972, well after the Stones tour wrapped: \u201cSuperstition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time, all that mattered to Wonder, at least, was experiencing a moment of transcendence with the people listening to him. \u201cI like to feel it happen when I\u2019m up there; I like to feel free with my audience,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd if things are cooled down, I just start clapping my hands and getting funky. And pretty soon that feeling of togetherness is right there. That\u2019s the kind of response I like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rolling-stones-stevie-wonder-uptight-satisfaction-867692\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spring of 1972, Stevie Wonder released Music of My Mind and the Rolling Stones put out Exile on Main Street. Both albums were instant hits, with the former\u2019s reaching Number 21 on the Billboard 200 and Exile reaching Number One. So when the Stones recruited Wonder, then just 22, to open up their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-798303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 05:16:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}