Composers: Keith
Richards & Steve Jordan
Recording date: August-September
1987 & November 1987-May 1988
Recording locations: Le
Studio, Montreal, Canada; various studios, New York City; Bermuda Sound
Recording Studios, Bermuda;
Air Studios, Montserrat; Atlantic
Studios & The Hit Factory, New York City
Producers: Keith
Richards & Steve Jordan
Chief engineer: Don
Smith
Line-up:
Drums: Steve Jordan
Bass: Charley
Drayton
Acoustic guitars: Keith
Richards & Waddy Wachtel
Electric guitar: Keith
Richards
Lead vocal: Keith
Richards
Background vocals: Keith
Richards, Steve Jordan & Charley Drayton
Piano: Ivan
Neville
Keyboards: Ivan
Neville
Violin: Michael
Doucet
Accordion: Stanley
"Buckwheat" Dural
She swears that I'm the only one
What about yesterday? Yeah
I'd like to believe
Somehow I still suspect
Locked away
She ought to be locked away
My mind is racing
Footsteps lead me to jealousy
I'm loosing my grip
I can't trust the way I feel
Locked away
I ought to be locked away
Throw that old key away
My friends say that your friends say
That I ain't worth your time
I know what you must hear
Don't let it interfere
Locked away
They ought to be locked away
We can do anything
Any trick in the book
We can go anywhere
As long as we care
We ought to be locked away
Ought to be locked away
TrackTalk
(T)hat (guitar solo), I was pumping it. That's the fade-out. That's the Music Man (guitar). I was just keeping it going on the fade... That's the third or fourth song we recorded. It was a brand new guitar. I mean, the tape was rolling. I always roll tape, all the time... (I)t was very loose, and I was trying to figure out this brand new guitar. Waddy was on acoustic, locked up in a separate booth... everyone was playing very quiet.
At the time of the album I happened to be
listening to a lot of South African Soweto street music - which was intriguing
me a lot, because it seems to me that Africa, which produced the rhythnms
and heartbeats of American music and especially rock and roll, was now
throwing it back to us again with electric instruments! That's where the
Soweto sound is at! And somehow this is where I got the idea for the accordion
and fiddle on Locked Away. I knew that Locked Away needed
some more color on it. I guess the fact that I had been listening to Buckwheat's
latest record and the South African music was critical, and it suddenly
just clicked in my mind.