Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date:
June 1979-January 1980
& April 1980
Recording
locations: Pathé Marconi
Studios, Paris, France & Electric Lady
Studios, New York City, USA
Producers: The Glimmer
Twins Associate producer & chief
engineer: Chris Kimsey
Performed
onstage: 1981-82,
2005-07, 2013-17, 2019, 2024
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Bill
Wyman
Electric guitars: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards & Ron Wood
(incl. slide)
Pedal steel guitar: Ron Wood
Vocals: Mick
Jagger
Saxophone: Bobby Keys
Percussion: Michael Shrieve
TrackTalk
Charlie: She's So Cold, quite honestly, was a
track that Keith had going that I didn't know what was going on
it. And I'm the drummer. And Mick wrote lyrics and I never heard
a thing until after. Quite honestly.
Ron: I remember you and Keith and me and Bill
trashing over and over...
Mick: Actually I wrote it in an hour (...)
Charlie: And I had a great time making the record with
Keith. But was he was going to sing or what he wanted on it or
what Mick was going to write, it was something I heard months
later, in fact.
Mick: Well it was a bit like Shattered, in
that way, you remember that one?
Charlie: Yeah, another one.
Mick: It was a bit like Shattered 'cause it
was always there...
(The guitar sound is) our equivalent of that
rockabilly thing. I think you'll find that comes from using a
lot of analog delay on Ron's guitar or my guitar or both of
them, and I dampen it. That'll give you that
ticka-tacka-ticka.
Ron: The only obvious thing to me about it is that it
fits that rhythm and that feel - she's-so-cold, you
know? It comes off the tongue....
Mick: It's really OUR version of "she's so cold".
Which is, like, very funny because it is an obvious subject.
It's like the old cold lady.
Ron:When I touch her, my hand froze.
Mick: Yeah, when I... No, when I touched
her, I looked like an ice cream cone - isn't that it?
(Laughs) ... There's another... I heard it on the radio the
other day. And there's like three songs all about the same
subject, so it's a very traditional one.