Pretty
Beat Up
Composers: Mick
Jagger, Keith Richards & Ron Wood
Recording
date: December 1982 &
April-August 1983
Recording
locations: Pathé
Marconi Studios, Paris, France; Compass
Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas; & The Hit Factory,
New York City
Producers: The
Glimmer
Twins & Chris Kimsey
Chief engineer:
Chris
Kimsey
Never performed
onstage
Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Keith Richards
Electric guitars: Mick
Jagger & Ron Wood
Lead vocals: Mick
Jagger
Backing vocals: Mick
Jagger, Keith Richards & Ron Wood
Electric piano: Bill
Wyman
Organ: Ian
Stewart
Saxophone: David
Sanborn
Horns: CHOPS
(The Sugarhill Horn Section)
Pretty
beat up, pretty beat up
Ow,
yeah, since you put me down (pretty beat up, pretty beat
up)
Yeah,
since you left me lying around (pretty
beat up, pretty beat up)
Since you
86'd me - yeah
(pretty beat
up)
And never
re-stitched me (pretty beat
up)
My face is a
mess (pretty beat
up)
Yeah,
yeah, you should see my face (pretty
beat up, pretty beat up)
Yeah, it's
a mess (pretty beat up, pretty beat up)
You ought
to see inside, in my heart (pretty
beat up, pretty beat up)
I'm marked
for life
(pretty beat
up)
I'm marked
for life
Pretty beat up, pretty beat up
Pretty beat up, pretty beat up
Pretty beat up, pretty beat up
Pretty beat up, pretty beat up
Yeah, that's right, baby
Ow! Pretty beat up
Pretty beat up
Like... (pretty
beat up, pretty beat up)
Yeah, I'm
just like a battered baby, just left on
the street (pretty beat up, pretty beat up)
You ought
to see the state I'm... I've been cut with a razor (pretty
beat up, pretty beat up)
Don't
you cut me up, don't you cut me up
Don't
you cut me up (pretty beat up)
Oh baby (pretty beat
up)
Pretty
beat up
Pretty beat up
Pretty beat up
TrackTalk
Ronnie is the main instigator and
part writer
of Pretty Beat Up. The chord sequence was his and I came
up with
the title and Mick added extra lyrics.
-
Keith Richards, 1983
Pretty Beat
Up, that's a song not really
about very much. It's just about losing a woman. We could've
made it the
other way around. We could've sung She's pretty beat up
or I
beat her up, but the song's not actually about that.
-
Mick Jagger, 1983
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