*RTH* Mick Jagger – Memo from turner

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The Stones recorded this for the movie Performance, starring Mick Jagger as a guy named "Turner." It is on the soundtrack.

Keith Richards balked at recording this because he was not happy about the love scenes between Jagger and his girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg, in the movie.

The version on Metamorphosis features Traffic members Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi singing backup.

This was released as a single in 1970 only in the UK. This version was credited only to Jagger and peaked at #32. It can be found on The Singles Collection.

Jagger sings this in Performance to the assembled mobsters while persuading them to take their clothes off. The scene wasn't originally scripted in the Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg-directed movie. Jagger recalled to Mojo in a 2019 interview:

"'Memo from Turner' is like watching a total kind of video, a foreshadowing of MTV. It's very cleverly done, although at the time I quite understand what Don wanted in that scene when he told me - it was sort of thrown in a bit last minute and wasn't in the original parts of the scripts. It was a sequence that he added later."
Memo From Turner by The Rolling Stones - Songfacts