![]() Micky Waller didn’t have a kit of drums, so they’d been rented. They were exciting sessions – they were very fast. “When we cut it, it was just bass, organ, vocals, acoustic guitar and drums. “I thought it was cool, but had no idea it would become a classic,” admitted McLagan. ![]() Originally, the song was an outside contender for what became Stewart’s breakthrough album, Every Picture Tells A Story. “There’s a bit of distortion already built in, just because of the old valves.” “It was more or less a converted radio, a bit like the Champ amp is,” Wood told Premier Guitar in 2010. Wood usually played his Tony Zemaitis metalfront guitars through a Fender Champ, but for Maggie May’s “funny little solo” he switched to a rare '60s valve amp by UK makers Fenton-Weill. Personnel included Ronnie Wood (Zemaitis electric), Martin Quittenton (12-strings, acoustics), Ian McLagan (Hammond B-3 organ), Andy Pyle (bass) and Micky Waller (drums). “We would have a few drinks and strum away and play.” “We had no preconceived ideas of what we were going to do,” Stewart recalled. Maggie May was recorded in April 1971 at Morgan Sound Studios, North London, while Stewart’s solo sessions were ad-hoc, even though this was his third solo album.
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