Ca n't You Hear Me Knocking - wikipedia Ca n't You Hear Me Knocking This article is about the song by The Rolling Stones. For the episode of That ' 70s Show, see Ca n't You Hear Me Knocking ( episode ). This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( July 2016 ) `` Ca n't You Hear Me Knocking '' Song by the Rolling Stones from the album Sticky Fingers Released 23 April 1971 Recorded March -- May 1970 Studio Olympic, London Genre Rock Length 7 : 15 Label Rolling Stones / Atlantic Songwriter ( s ) Jagger / Richards Producer ( s ) Jimmy Miller `` Ca n't You Hear Me Knocking '' is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones from their 1971 album Sticky Fingers. The song is over seven minutes long, and begins with a Keith Richards open - G tuned guitar intro. At two minutes and forty - three seconds, an instrumental break begins, with Rocky Dijon on congas ; tenor saxophonist Bobby Keys performs an extended saxophone solo over the guitar work of Richards and Mick Taylor, punctuated by the organ work of Billy Preston. At 4 : 40 Taylor takes over from Keith and carries the song to its finish with a lengthy guitar solo. Contents 1 Composition and recording 2 Accolades 3 The Rolling Stones live performances 4 Personnel 4.1 Sticky Fingers 4.2 Live Licks 5 References 6 External links Composition and recording This section contains too many quotations for an encyclopedic entry. Please help improve the article by presenting facts as a neutrally - worded summary with appropriate citations. Consider transferring direct quotations to Wikiquote. ( October 2017 ) Richards described writing the guitar riff : `` Ca n't You Hear Me Knocking '' came out flying -- I just found the tuning and the riff and started to swing it and Charlie picked up on it just like that, and we 're thinking, hey, this is some groove. So it was smiles all around. For a guitar player it 's no big deal to play, the chopping, staccato bursts of chords, very direct and spare. In 2002, Richards commented on the recording : The jam at the end was n't inspired by Carlos Santana. We did n't even know they were still taping. We thought we 'd finished. We were just rambling and they kept the tape rolling. I figured we 'd just fade it off. It was only when we heard the playback that we realised, Oh, they kept it going. Basically we realised we had two bits of music. There 's the song and there 's the jam. Taylor recalled in a 1979 interview : `` Ca n't You Hear Me Knocking ''... is one of my favourites... ( The jam at the end ) just happened by accident ; that was never planned. Towards the end of the song I just felt like carrying on playing. Everybody was putting their instruments down, but the tape was still rolling and it sounded good, so everybody quickly picked up their instruments again and carried on playing. It just happened, and it was a one - take thing. A lot of people seem to really like that part. Taylor added, `` I used a brown Gibson ES - 345 for ' Dead Flowers ' and the solo on ' Ca n't You Hear Me Knocking '. '' Jagger noted in the Spotify Landmark interview on the album that the key was too high for his voice and that `` I ( did ) lots of vocals, harmonies to sort of hide the fact that I did n't really hit the notes that great in the chorus bits. '' An early alternate take of the song ( with dummy / placeholder lyrics ) was released in June 2015 on the Deluxe and Super Deluxe editions of the reissued Sticky Fingers album. Accolades In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine listed it at number 25 on its list of `` The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time. '' The Rolling Stones live performances The number was part of the Rolling Stones ' concert repertoire during their Licks Tour in 2002 -- 2003 and A Bigger Bang Tour in 2005 -- 2007. In these renditions, Jagger played a harmonica solo after Keys ' sax solo, and Ronnie Wood performed the extended guitar solo. A live recording was released on the band 's 2003 DVD set Four Flicks and on the 2004 concert album Live Licks. It was also performed live during shows in 2013, with Mick Taylor appearing as a special guest with the band. Personnel Sticky Fingers The Rolling Stones Mick Jagger -- lead vocals Keith Richards -- electric guitar, backing vocals Mick Taylor -- electric guitar, backing vocals Charlie Watts -- drums Bill Wyman -- bass guitar Additional musicians Nicky Hopkins -- piano Rocky Dijon -- congas Bobby Keys -- saxophone Billy Preston -- organ Jimmy Miller -- percussion Live Licks The Rolling Stones Mick Jagger -- vocals Keith Richards -- guitar Ronnie Wood -- guitar Charlie Watts -- drums Additional musicians Darryl Jones -- bass Chuck Leavell -- keyboards References ^ Jump up to : McPherson, Ian. `` Track Talk : Ca n't You Hear Me Knocking ''. Retrieved 24 August 2008. Jump up ^ `` On `` Ca n't You Hear Me Knocking '', a song by The Rolling Stones on Spotify ``. Open.spotify.com. 1971 - 04 - 23. Retrieved 2016 - 07 - 27. Jump up ^ Stone, Rolling. `` The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time - Number 25 of 100 ''. Retrieved 5 July 2009. External links Complete Official Lyrics Sticky Fingers Side one `` Brown Sugar '' `` Sway '' `` Wild Horses '' `` Ca n't You Hear Me Knocking '' `` You Gotta Move '' Side two `` Bitch '' `` I Got the Blues '' `` Sister Morphine '' `` Dead Flowers '' `` Moonlight Mile '' Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Can%27t_You_Hear_Me_Knocking&oldid=842828049 '' Categories : 1971 songs Jazz fusion songs Songs written by Jagger / Richards The Rolling Stones songs Song recordings produced by Jimmy Miller Atlantic Records singles Songs about drugs Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from July 2016 All articles needing additional references Use British English from September 2011 Use dmy dates from September 2011 Articles with hAudio microformats Wikipedia articles needing style editing from October 2017 All articles needing style editing Talk Contents About Wikipedia Español Italiano Norsk nynorsk Русский Svenska Edit links This page was last edited on 24 May 2018, at 23 : 19. 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Question: who plays saxophone on can't you hear me knocking
Answer: Bobby Keys