Pop-Up Video: Waiting On a Friend (1981)
Waiting on a Friend Single: The Rolling Stones Album: Tattoo You B-side : "Little T&A" Released: November 1981 Recorded: 1972/1973 and 1981 Songwriters: Jagger/Richards The lazy ballad "Waiting On a Friend" is the closing track on the Rolling Stones album Tattoo You . C onsisting of outtakes and leftovers from other sessions, it was the final Rolling Stones album to reach the top position of the US charts, ending the band's string of number-ones that dated back to 1971's Sticky Fingers .