The Glimmer Twins

The Glimmer Twins is a nickname given to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones. The two often use it as a producing credit on Stones albums. The origin of the nickname dates from a vacation cruise Jagger and Richards took to Brazil in 1969 with their then girlfriends, Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg. During several meals, an older English couple ate at the same table as the rock stars and kept asking Richards and Jagger who they were. When they refused to reveal their identities, reportedly, the older couple kept asking, "just give us a glimmer" (as in "give us a hint to your true names"), for the couple did vaguely recognize the men from television and tabloids.

Jagger and Richards were so amused by this recurrent request, they began to call themselves the 'Glimmer Twins' when producing Rolling Stones records. The first of many producing credits for the 'Glimmer Twins' appears on the It's Only Rock'n Roll album jacket and record sleeve. No effort was made to explain that the term was a pseudonym for Jagger and Richards.

Glimmer Twins credited albums

Rolling Stones

*It's Only Rock'n Roll
*Black and Blue
*Love You Live
*Some Girls
*Emotional Rescue
*Sucking in the Seventies
*Tattoo You
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*Undercover (Co-producer Chris Kimsey)
*Dirty Work (Co-producer Steve Lillywhite)
*Steel Wheels (Co-producer Chris Kimsey)
*Flashpoint (Co-producer Chris Kimsey)
*Voodoo Lounge (Co-producer Don Was)
*Stripped (Co-producer Don Was)
*Bridges to Babylon (Co-producer Don Was; Rob Fraboni, Danny Saber, Pierre de Beauport and The Dust Brothers)
*Live Licks (Co-producer Don Was)
*A Bigger Bang (Co-producer Don Was)
*Shine a Light (Co-producer Bob Clearmountain)

Other Artists
*Peter Tosh's Bush Doctor, 1978. (Co-producers with Peter Tosh and Robert Shakespeare).

:*Note: John Phillips' Pay, Pack and Follow released 2001, recorded 1973-1979, credits Mick Jagger and Keith Richards as Producers.

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