Memo from Turner

"Memo from Turner"
Single by Mick Jagger
from the album Performance
B-side"Natural Magic"
Released23 October 1970
RecordedSeptember 1968, Olympic Studios, London
GenreBlues rock
Length4:09
LabelDecca Records
Songwriter(s)Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
Producer(s)Jack Nitzsche
Mick Jagger singles chronology
"Memo from Turner"
(1970)
"State of Shock"
(1984)
"Memo from Turner"
Song by The Rolling Stones
from the album Metamorphosis
Released6 June 1975
RecordedAugust 1968, Olympic Studios, London
Length2:45
Songwriter(s)Jagger/Richards
Producer(s)Jimmy Miller

"Memo from Turner" is a solo single by Mick Jagger, featuring slide guitar by Ry Cooder, from the soundtrack of Performance, in which Jagger played the role of Turner, a reclusive rock star. It was re-released in October 2007 on a 17-song retrospective compilation album The Very Best of Mick Jagger, making a re-appearance as a Jagger solo effort. After its original release in 1970, it was included on Rolling Stones compilations, such as Singles Collection: The London Years as a track credited to the Jagger/Richards songwriting partnership. "Memo from Turner" was ranked No. 92 in the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs list of Rolling Stone.

Music critic Robert Christgau has said, "Jagger's version of Jagger–Richard's scabrous, persona-twisted "Memo From Turner" is his envoi to the 60s."