Shattered (song)

"Shattered" is a song by The Rolling Stones from their 1978 album Some Girls. The song is seen as a reflection of American lifestyles and life in 1970s-era New York City, but also influences from the English punk movement can be heard.

Recorded from October to December 1977, "Shattered" features lyrics by Mick Jagger on a guitar riff by Keith Richards. Jagger commented in a Rolling Stone interview that he wrote the lyrics in the back of a New York cab.

"Shattered" was released as a single in the US and in 1979 climbed to #31 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Stones memorably performed the song live for an episode of Saturday Night Live during which Jagger apparently licked Wood's lips and tore his shirt off. The track was featured on WKRP in Cincinnati on the episode "Pilot: Part Two"

A live version was captured during their 1981 tour of America and released on the 1982 live album "Still Life". A second version, captured during the band's A Bigger Bang Tour, appears on Shine a Light. It would act as the opening song for the 1981 compilation Sucking in the Seventies and in 2002 the Stones included it on their career retrospective, Forty Licks.

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Complete official lyrics

v • d • e The Rolling Stones singles

Decca/London singles	1963: Come On, I Wanna Be Your Man • 1964: Not Fade Away, It's All Over Now, Tell Me, Time Is on My Side, Little Red Rooster, Heart of Stone • 1965: The Last Time / Play with Fire, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Get off of My Cloud, As Tears Go By • 1966: 19th Nervous Breakdown, Paint It, Black, Mother's Little Helper / Lady Jane, Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? • 1967: Let's Spend the Night Together / Ruby Tuesday, We Love You / Dandelion, In Another Land, She's a Rainbow • 1968: Jumpin' Jack Flash, Street Fighting Man • 1969: Honky Tonk Women •

Rolling Stones/ Atlantic singles	1971: Brown Sugar, Wild Horses • 1972: Tumbling Dice, Happy • 1973: Angie, Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) • 1974: It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It), Ain't Too Proud to Beg • 1976: Fool to Cry, Hot Stuff •

Rolling Stones/Virgin singles	1978: Miss You, Beast of Burden, Respectable, Shattered • 1980: Emotional Rescue, She's So Cold • 1981: Start Me Up, Waiting on a Friend • 1982: Hang Fire, Going to a Go-Go (live), Time Is on My Side (live) • 1983: Undercover of the Night • 1984: She Was Hot • 1986: Harlem Shuffle, One Hit (to the Body) • 1989: Mixed Emotions, Rock and a Hard Place • 1990: Almost Hear You Sigh, Terrifying • 1991: Highwire, Ruby Tuesday (live) •

Virgin singles	1994: Love Is Strong, You Got Me Rocking, Out of Tears • 1995: I Go Wild • 1997: Anybody Seen My Baby? • 1998: Saint of Me, Out of Control • 2002: Don't Stop, Sympathy for the Devil (remix) • 2005: Streets of Love / Rough Justice, Rain Fall Down • 2006: Biggest Mistake •