"You Got the Silver" is a song by the English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from their 1969 album Let It Bleed. It was also released as the B-side to the "Let It Bleed" single in Japan. Recording Recorded on 18 February 1969, "You Got the Silver" is the first Stones song to feature guitarist Keith Richards on solo lead vocal throughout. Richards previously sang separate lead vocals on parts of "Something Happened to Me Yesterday" from Between the Buttons and on "Salt of the Earth" from Beggars Banquet. One of Richards' own compositions, "You Got the Silver" is said to have been written about his then-girlfriend Anita Pallenberg. The band recorded a version of the song with Mick Jagger on lead but opted to use Richards' version for the official release. The Jagger version has since become a well-known bootleg recording. "You Got the Silver" was the last Stones recording released with Brian Jones participation, one of his two appearances on the album. He plays autoharp. Jones' autoharp contribution can only be heard clearly on the alternate mix with Jagger on vocals, and it is played only during the section of the verses where the drums join in. Bill Wyman's bass playing also stands out more in the unreleased alternate mix. The official/album mix has the autoharp mixed very low, though it can be heard in the right-hand channel between 1:04 and 1:25. The bootleg mix with Jagger on vocals places Jones's autoharp much more prominently in the mix. Nicky Hopkins' overdubbed organ and piano to the track and a backwards echo effect is applied to Richards' slide guitar track. The story that the Jagger vocal was accidentally erased has been repeated by many since 1969, including engineer Glyn Johns in his book Sound Man. The legend is that Richards recorded the vocal because Jagger was in Australia filming Ned Kelly. However, the high quality bootleg recordings of the Jagger vocal indicate that the Richards vocal was a deliberate choice. Jagger finished filming Ned Kelly in September. Final work on Let It Bleed continued into October and Jagger could have re-recorded the lost vocal at that time. The song was played live for the first time during the No Security Tour in 1999. It was brought out again by Richards for the 2005-2007 A Bigger Bang Tour. A November 1, 2006 live performance captured on the 2008