• Page 2Tumbling Dice
• Jeffrey R. Di Leo (bio)

You got to roll me and call me the tumbling dice.

These famous words found their way into the musty basement of the Villa Nellcôte. Relaxing and recording in this 1854 French villa in Villefranche-sur-Mer on the Côte D'Azur in 1971, the Rolling Stones were in tax exile.

Keith Richards rented this French villa to avoid payment on the high income tax back in England. "The tax rate in the early '70s on the highest earners was eighty-three percent, and that went up to ninety-eight percent for investments and so-called unearned income," says Richards in his autobiography, Life (2010). "So that's the same as being told to leave the country."

The album that resulted from his "being told to leave the country," Exile on Main St. (1972), and the conditions of its composition have become the subject of rock lore.

"It's got a raw sound quality, and the reason for that is that the basement was very dingy and very damp," said Mick Taylor, who played lead guitar for the Stones from 1969 to 1974. "The roof leaked," continued Taylor, "and there were power failures."

Moreover, Andy Johns, who made the Nellcôte tapes in a mobile studio outside of the villa, said the "heating vents on the floor were gold swastikas." Richards told Johns that the villa "had been a Gestapo headquarters during the war."

During their exile at the villa, the scene was chaotic. "People appeared, disappeared," said Robert Greenfield who was there to interview Richards for Rolling Stone. "No one had a last name, you didn't know who anybody was," he continues. "It was an unparalleled cast of characters."

Nevertheless, it turned out to be a productive environment for songwriting.

"Happy" was written and recorded there in an afternoon.

"Tumbling Dice" though took longer.

In his autobiography, Life (2010), Richards, who led the scene at the villa, says that it "took a few days to get ['Tumbling Dice'] right." "I'd have been happier if more came like 'Happy,'" comments Richards. "Great songs write themselves," he continues. "You're just being led by the nose, or the ears. The skill is not to interfere with it too much. Ignore intelligence, ignore everything; just follow it where it takes you."

"I remember working on that intro for several afternoons," says Richards. "I credit Mick with 'Tumbling Dice,' but the song had to make a transition from its earlier form, which was a song called 'Good Time Women.'"

"It started out with a great riff from Keith," says Mick Jagger in an interview with The Sun in 2010. "We had it down as a completed song called 'Good Time Women,'" continues Jagger, and

it was quite fast and sounded great but I wasn't happy with the lyrics. Later I got the title in my head, "call me the tumbling dice," so I had the theme for it. I didn't know anything about dice playing but I knew lots of jargon used by dice players. I'd heard gamblers in casinos shouting it out. I asked my housekeeper if she played dice. She did and she told me these terms. That was the inspiration.

But if the history of "Good Time Women" ended in "Tumbling Dice" at Keith's villa, it did not begin there.

In South East London there is a district called Bermondsey. The Rolling Stones had a rehearsal studio there for a few years prior to 1971. During a visit to Bermondsey before the Stones left for France, Trevor Churchhill, the European label manager for Rolling Stones Records notices a pile of tapes in the corner. He transferred them to cassette and brought them to the villa. Among the demos and incomplete tracks he found in Bermondsey was "Good Time Woman."

Still, how "Good Time Woman" became "Tumbling Dice" is unclear.

Richards says it "may have had something to do with the gambling den that Nellcôte turned into—there were card games and roulette wheels." "Monte Carlo was around the corner."

And Jagger thinks "It's obviously the most accessible and commercial song on...

• 第2页翻滚骰子
• Jeffrey R.Di Leo（生物）

你得甩开我，叫我翻滚的骰子。

这些著名的词进入了内尔科特别墅发霉的地下室。滚石乐队于1971年在蔚蓝海岸的滨海自由城的这栋1854年法国别墅中放松和录制唱片，这是流石税。

基思·理查兹（Keith Richards）租用了这栋法国别墅，以避免在英国退还高所得税。理查兹在自传《生活》（2010年）中说：“在70年代初，最高收入者的税率为83％，而投资和所谓的非劳动收入的税率则高达98％。” “因此，这与被告知离开该国一样。”

专辑源于他的“被告知要离开该国”，位于Main St上的Exile。（1972年），其组成条件已成为岩石绝杀的主题。

1969年至1974年为《石头乐队》（Stones）担任首席吉他手的米克·泰勒（Mick Taylor）说：“它具有原始的音质，其原因是地下室非常肮脏，非常潮湿。”屋顶漏水，”泰勒继续说道， “并且出现了电源故障。”

此外，安迪·约翰斯（Andy Johns）在别墅外的移动工作室中制作了内尔科特（Nellcôte）录音带，他说：“地板上的散热孔是金sw。” 理查兹告诉约翰斯，别墅“在战争期间曾经是盖世太保的总部”。

在他们流放到别墅期间，现场一片混乱。“人们出现了，消失了，”在那里采访《滚石》的理查兹的罗伯特·格林菲尔德说。他继续说：“没有人姓，你不知道谁是谁。” “这是无与伦比的角色阵容。”

然而，事实证明，这是创作歌曲的富有成效的环境。

一个下午写着“快乐”并记录下来。

“翻滚骰子”虽然花费了更长的时间。

理查兹（Richards）在他的自传《生活》（Life）（2010）中说，“花了几天时间才能使['Tumbling Dice']正确”。理查兹说：“如果有更多类似“快乐”的东西来，我会更开心。他继续说：“伟大的歌曲写成自己。” “您只是被鼻子或耳朵所吸引。技巧就是不要过多地干扰它。忽略智力，忽略一切；只要跟随它就可以带您过去。”

理查兹说：“我记得在那个介绍上工作了几个下午。” “我赞扬米克（Mick）的《翻滚骰子》，但是这首歌必须从它的早期形式过渡，这就是一首叫做《好时光女人》的歌曲。”

米格·贾格尔（Mick Jagger）在2010年接受《太阳报》（The Sun）采访时说：“这始于基思（Keith）的即兴演奏。我们把这首歌称为'好时光女性'（Good Time Women），作为一部完整的歌曲而声名狼藉。”

速度很快，听起来不错，但我对歌词不满意。后来我想到了这个标题，“叫我翻滚的骰子”，所以我有了这个主题。我对骰子游戏一无所知，但我知道很多骰子玩家使用的行话。我听说过赌场的赌徒大喊大叫。我问我的管家她是否玩骰子。她做到了，她告诉了我这些条款。那就是灵感。

但是，如果“好时光女性”的历史以基思别墅的“翻滚骰子”而告终，那不是从那里开始的。

在伦敦东南部，有一个名为Bermondsey的地区。滚石乐队在1971年之前在那里有一家彩排工作室。在《滚石乐队》去法国之前的一次访问Bermondsey期间，《滚石乐队唱片》的欧洲唱片公司经理Trevor Churchhill注意到角落里有一堆磁带。他将它们转移到盒式磁带上，然后带到别墅中。他在Bermondsey发现的演示和不完整曲目中有“ Good Time Woman”。

不过，还不清楚“好时光的女人”如何变成“翻滚骰子”。

理查兹（Richards）说，“这可能与内尔科特（Nellcôte）变成的赌博场所有关-有纸牌游戏和轮盘。“蒙特卡罗就在拐角处。”

贾格尔认为：“这显然是...上最易听和最有商业意义的歌曲。