Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, 'Anybody Seen My Baby?' is the first single from the 1997 album 'Bridges To Babylon'.
The song also carries writing credits for K.D. Lang and Ben Mink. As Richards writes in his autobiography 'Life', "My daughter Angela and her friend were at Redlands and I was playing the record and they start singing this totally different song over it. They were hearing K.D. Lang's 'Constant Craving'. It was Angela and her friend that copped it." The two gave Lang credit, along with her co-writer Mink, to avoid any lawsuits. Afterwards, Lang said she was "completely honored and flattered" by receiving the songwriting credit.
'Anybody Seen My Baby?' features wide-ranging inspirations, including sampling of hip-hop artist Biz Markie, making it one of the few songs by the Rolling Stones to include sampling.
The song was a worldwide hit in 1997, reaching Top 20 in Europe, #1 in Canada and #3 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks. The video directed by Samuel Bayer featured a young Angelina Jolie appearing as a stripper who leaves mid-performance to wander New York City.
Released as a numbered 7" picture disc in the UK [c/w a 'soul solution remix edit' of the song], the single was also issued in France in a white titled sleeve for jukeboxes use only [1,000 made].
Apart from these vinyl issues, many CD EPs and 12" were pressed worlwide, including numerous remixes of the song. All of these using variations of the same artwork [gold tongue stamps] unavailable on the 7" format.


[Mick Jagger / Keith Richards / K.D. Lang / Ben Mink]
Producer: Don Was, The Dust Brothers & The Glimmer Twins
Engineers: The Dust Brothers & Dan Bosworth
Keith Richards: electric guitar, background vocal
Waddy Wachtel: acoustic and electric guitars
Ron Wood: electric guitar
Charlie Watts: drums
Jamie Muhoberac: bass, keyboard
Don Was: keyboard
Bernard Fowler: background vocals
Biz Markie: sampled lead vocal
Blondie Chaplin: shaker, background vocal
charts | peak | release date | 7" single | B-side |
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22 | September 15, 1997 | VS 1653 | same [soul solution remix edit] |
[Mick Jagger / Keith Richards / K.D. Lang / Ben Mink]
She confessed her love to me,
then she vanished on the breeze
Trying to hold on to that was just impossible
She was more than beautiful, closer to ethereal
With a kind of down to earth flavor
Close my eyes, it's 3 in the afternoon
Then I realize that she's really gone for good

Anybody seen her around?
Love has gone and made me blind,
I've looked but I just can't find
She has gotten lost in the crowd
I was flipping magazines
in that place on Mercer Street
When I thought I spotted her
And getting on a motor bike,
looking rather lady-like
Didn't she just give me a wave?
Salty tears, it's 3 in the afternoon
Has she disappeared?
Has she really gone for good?
Anybody seen my baby?
(Has) Anybody seen her around?
If I just close my eyes
I reach out and touch the prize
Anybody seen her around?
Oh yeah, that's what I'm saying
We came to rock Brooklyn and Queens
And Manhattan and the Bronx
And Staten Island, I can't forget New Jersey
And Long Island and all over the world
We came to rock for everybody all like this
Oh yeah
Anybody seen...
Lost, lost, never found
Oh yeah, I must have called her a thousand times
Oh, sometimes I just think she's just in my imagination
Oh yeah
