She's So Cold

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"She's So Cold"
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Single by the Rolling Stones
from the album Emotional Rescue
B-side "Send It to Me"
ReleasedSeptember 1980 (1980-09)
RecordedJanuary–February 1979
Genre
Length4:10
Label Rolling Stones
Songwriter(s) Jagger/Richards
Producer(s) The Glimmer Twins
Rolling Stonessingles chronology
"Emotional Rescue"
(1980)
"She's So Cold"
(1980)
"Start Me Up"
(1981)
Emotional Rescue track listing
10 tracks
Side one
  1. "Dance (Pt. 1)"
  2. "Summer Romance"
  3. "Send It to Me"
  4. "Let Me Go"
  5. "Indian Girl"
Side two
  1. "Where the Boys Go"
  2. "Down in the Hole"
  3. "Emotional Rescue"
  4. "She's So Cold"
  5. "All About You"

"She's So Cold" is a song recorded by the Rolling Stones, released in September 1980 on the Emotional Rescue album. It was also issued as the second single from the album, with "Send It to Me" as the B-side. Due to the song's lyric "she's so goddamned cold", the promotional copy sent to radio stations had a "cleaned up version" on one side, [3] with the "God damn version" on the other. [4]

Contents

Reception

Billboard called it a "torchy rock attack." [5] Record World said that "Keith [Richards] and Mick [Jagger] have typical woman problems here, but they're hot as ever." [6]

Personnel

Charts

The single peaked at number 33 in the UK Singles Chart and number 26 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in November 1980. [7] Along with the tracks, "Dance" and "Emotional Rescue", "She's So Cold" went to number nine on the Disco Top 100 chart. [8]

Chart (1980)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [9] 49
Canada Top Singles ( RPM ) [10] 11
Ireland (IRMA) [11] 24
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [12] 23
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [13] 26
UK Singles (OCC) [14] 33
US Billboard Hot 100 [15] 26

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