In 1971 The Rolling Stones went #1 with "Sticky Fingers!"
Released on the Rolling Stones' new label, Rolling Stones Records, the album, was the second album to feature Mick Taylor but the first studio album after the live album Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!. The infamous cover, was conceived by Andy Warhol, and was expensive to produce as it damaged the vinyl, so the size of the zipper was adjusted.
The album featured "Brown Sugar” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 and the classic ballad "Wild Horses", as the album had its fair share of controversy to surround it. Sticky Fingers would mark the end of their contract with Decca/London records, which gave the Stones the freedom to release their albums as they pleased, but unfortunately their manager Allen Klein had control of their entire 1960s American copyrights to his company ABKCO. The band would later sue for the return of their rights, but without success, and to add to their frustrations Decca was owed one more single but the band. The Stones would submit a song called "Cocksucker Blues", which Decca refused, and instead released "Street Fighting Man" off the previously released Beggars Banquet. Klein would retain dual copyright ownership in conjunction with the Rolling Stones of "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses".
Sticky Fingers was the first album to reach number one on both the UK and US albums charts, and achieved triple platinum certification. The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and listed in Rolling Stone magazine's "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list.