<P> When Decca informed The Rolling Stones that they were owed one more single, they cheekily submitted a track called "Cocksucker Blues", which was guaranteed to be refused . Instead, Decca released the two - year - old Beggars Banquet track "Street Fighting Man" while Klein retained dual copyright ownership in conjunction with The Rolling Stones of "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses". </P> <P> Although sessions for Sticky Fingers began in earnest in March 1970, The Rolling Stones had been recording at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama in December 1969 . "Sister Morphine", cut during Let It Bleed's sessions earlier in March of that year, had been held over from this release . Much of the recording for Sticky Fingers was made with The Rolling Stones' mobile studio unit in Stargroves during the summer and autumn of 1970 . Early versions of songs that would eventually appear on Exile on Main St. were also rehearsed during these sessions . </P> <P> The album's artwork emphasises the suggestive innuendo of the Sticky Fingers title, showing a close - up of a jeans - clad male crotch with the visible outline of a large penis; the cover of the original (vinyl LP) release featured a working zipper and perforations around the belt buckle that opened to reveal a sub-cover image of cotton briefs . The vinyl release displayed the band's name and album title along the image of the belt; behind the zipper the white briefs were seemingly rubber stamped in gold with the stylized name of American pop artist Andy Warhol, below which read "THIS PHOTOGRAPH MAY NOT BE--ETC ." While the artwork was conceived by Warhol, photography was by Billy Name and design was by Craig Braun . Braun and his team had other ideas, such as wrapping the album in rolling paper - a concept later used by Cheech & Chong in Big Bambu - but Jagger was enthused by Warhol's cover with a zipper . Execution was then handled as Warhol sent Braun Polaroid pictures of a model in tight jeans . </P> <P> The cover photo of a male model's crotch clad in tight blue jeans was assumed by many fans to be an image of Mick Jagger, but the people actually involved at the time of the photo shoot claim that Warhol had several different men photographed (Jagger was not among them) and never revealed which shots he used . Among the candidates, Jed Johnson, Warhol's lover at the time, denied it was his likeness, although his twin brother Jay is a possibility . Those closest to the shoot, and subsequent design, name Factory artist and designer Corey Tippin as the likeliest candidate . Warhol "superstar" Joe Dallesandro claims to have been the model . </P>

1971 rolling stones album with a working zipper