"Wanna Hold You" is a song by the English rock band

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on their 1983 album ''

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''. Although credited to

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and

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, "Wanna Hold You" is largely a Richards composition. The song was written in a recording studio in

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in the basement of a house of one of Richards' acquaintances. Richards describes the song's structure as being "very early sort of Lennon & McCartney, let alone the title, which suggest "

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". The first recording of the song, of which Richards claims to have the original tape, had only Richards on guitar and vocals and Jagger on drums. The lyrics deal with the often-used topic of a poor man having nothing but love to give to a woman, as the following line illustrates: During the Rolling Stones'

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, "Wanna Hold You" was a regular part of the mini-set sung by Richards and was performed 99 times (of 107 concerts in total).

References

The Rolling Stones songs 1983 songs Songs written by Jagger–Richards Song recordings produced by Jagger–Richards Song recordings produced by Chris Kimsey {{1980s-song-stub