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Fool to Cry
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Fool to Cry
| cover = RollStones-Single1976 FoolToCry.jpg
| type = single
| artist = The Rolling Stones
| album = Black and Blue
| B-side = *"Crazy Mama" (UK)
*"Hot Stuff" (US)
| released = March 26, 1976
| studio = Musicland, Munich, Germany
| genre = Soul
| length = 5:04
| label = Rolling Stones
| writer = Jagger/Richards
| producer = The Glimmer Twins
| prev_title = Ain't Too Proud to Beg
| prev_year = 1974
| next_title = Hot Stuff
| next_year = 1976
| misc =
}}
"'Fool to Cry'" is a ballad by English rock band the Rolling Stones from their 1976 album 'Black and Blue'.
The song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Mick Taylor had just left the band and the Stones were left without a lead guitarist. The recording of 'Black and Blue' acted as a sort of audition for new guitarists, which led to session man Wayne Perkins playing guitar on this track. Jagger plays electric piano and Nicky Hopkins performs regular piano on the track, with Hopkins also playing the string synthesizer.
Released as the lead single off 'Black and Blue' in 1976, "Fool to Cry" reached No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 10 on the U.S. 'Billboard' Hot 100.
'Cash Box' called this "a departure for the Stones," saying that "the beat is relaxed, vocals are laid over a foundation of Fender Rhodes and guitar, all played with funky style" and also praised Jagger's falsetto vocals and Richards' "searing guitar riffs."
"Fool to Cry" was the only track from 'Black and Blue' to appear on the Stones' career-spanning greatest hits albums 'Forty Licks' in 2002 and 'GRRR!' in 2012.
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Covers
Lena Dunham, creator and star of HBOs Golden Globe-winning show Girls, commissioned Tegan and Sara to cover the Rolling Stones' "Fool to Cry" for the show's official soundtrack. American singer and songwriter Taylor Dayne covered the song for her 2008 studio album 'Satisfied'.
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