In 1978, the Rolling Stones album Some Girls had a little bit of everything: Disco, country, punk, R&B, and a classic Keith Richards-fronted track, “Before They Make Me Run.”
Written by Richards after his 1977 arrest for heroin possession in Canada, the song features a ragged blues-rock feel and lyrics about freedom and resilience.
Ultimate Classic Rock ranked “Before They Make Me Run” as “one of Richards’ all-time greatest solo cuts, a stinging throwback rocker with a wonderfully tossed-off vocal.” Forty-eight years later, it’s also one of Richards’ most memorable musical moments, born from what he once described as a “marathon” recording session in a Paris studio.
In his 2010 memoir Life, Richards wrote, “For sheer longevity – for long distance – there is no track that I know of like ‘Before They Make Me Run.’ That song, which I sang on that record, was a cry from the heart. But it burned up the personnel like no other. I was in the studio, without leaving, for five days… Five days without a wink of sleep.”
“I had an engineer called Dave Jordan and I had another engineer, and one of them would flop under the desk and have a few hours’ kip and I’d put the other one in and keep going,” Richards wrote. “People brought in food, pain au chocolat. Days turned into nights. But you just can’t leave. …That’s probably the longest I’ve done. There have been others that were close – ‘Can’t Be Seen’ was one – but ‘Before They Make Me Run’ was the marathon.”
Richards once explained his marathon studio session, telling an interviewer, “Adrenaline is the most amazing thing we have,” according to Rolling Stone.
The outlet added that Richards’ “ability to go without sleep is almost beyond belief. He recorded ‘Before They Make Me Run,’ from 1978’s Some Girls, in a five-day studio binge.”
Richards has also said that “Before They Make Me Run” is one of his favorite Stones songs to perform.
“It’s pretty autobiographical,” he told the Associated Press of the song in an interview. “I was feeling a little hounded, so I think it came out of feeling that. I was on the run, basically. Very few countries would accept me at the time.”
Decades after its release, “Before They Make Me Run” is not only a standout Some Girls track but one of Richards’ most personal songs, giving fans a glimpse of his turbulent 1970s life while capturing his rebellious rock ‘n’ roll spirit.
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