Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "\"Connection\" is a song by British rock and roll band The Rolling Stones, featured on their 1967 album Between the Buttons. It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (but mostly Richards) and featured vocals by both of them and is said to be about the long hours the band spent in airports. The lyrics contain much rhyming based on the word \"connection.\" The lyrics also reflect very heavily the pressures the band was under by 1967:My bags they get a very close inspection, I wonder why it is that they suspect 'em, They're dying to add me to their collection, And I don't know, If they'll let me goCoincidentally, the song was written before Jagger, Richards and fellow Rolling Stone Brian Jones were arrested by the police for drugs.Although it was never released as a single, it is a popular live song. The song itself is built on a very simple chord progression featuring a repetitive drum pattern, Chuck Berry-like lead guitar from Richards, the piano of Jack Nitzsche, tambourine and organ pedals by multi-instrumentalist Jones, and bass by Wyman. Jagger, Jones, and Wyman later overdubbed handclaps. Jagger said in 1967 'That's me beating my hands on the bass drum.' Keith Richards has stated on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, that he considers \"Connection,\" his favorite obscure Rolling Stones Song."@en }
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- Connection_(The_Rolling_Stones_song) abstract "\"Connection\" is a song by British rock and roll band The Rolling Stones, featured on their 1967 album Between the Buttons. It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (but mostly Richards) and featured vocals by both of them and is said to be about the long hours the band spent in airports. The lyrics contain much rhyming based on the word \"connection.\" The lyrics also reflect very heavily the pressures the band was under by 1967:My bags they get a very close inspection, I wonder why it is that they suspect 'em, They're dying to add me to their collection, And I don't know, If they'll let me goCoincidentally, the song was written before Jagger, Richards and fellow Rolling Stone Brian Jones were arrested by the police for drugs.Although it was never released as a single, it is a popular live song. The song itself is built on a very simple chord progression featuring a repetitive drum pattern, Chuck Berry-like lead guitar from Richards, the piano of Jack Nitzsche, tambourine and organ pedals by multi-instrumentalist Jones, and bass by Wyman. Jagger, Jones, and Wyman later overdubbed handclaps. Jagger said in 1967 'That's me beating my hands on the bass drum.' Keith Richards has stated on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, that he considers \"Connection,\" his favorite obscure Rolling Stones Song.".