Fool to Cry

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{{Infobox song

| name = Fool to Cry

| cover = RollStones-Single1976 FoolToCry.jpg

| type = single

| artist = The Rolling Stones

| album = Black and Blue

| B-side = *"Crazy Mama" (UK)

• "Hot Stuff" (US)

| released = 16 April 1976{{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=The+Rolling+Stones&titel=Fool+To+Cry&cat=s|title=Rolling Stones singles}}

| studio = Musicland, Munich, Germany

| genre = Soul{{cite web|first= Bill |last= Janovitz |author-link= Bill Janovitz |title= Fool to Cry – Song Review |publisher= AllMusic |access-date= 30 July 2013 |url= https://www.allmusic.com/song/fool-to-cry-mt0002866313}}

| length = 4:08 (single edit)
5:04 (album version)

| label = Rolling Stones

| writer = Jagger/Richards

| producer = The Glimmer Twins

| prev_title = Out of Time

| prev_year = 1975

| next_title = Hot Stuff

| next_year = 1976

| misc = {{External music video|header=Official video|{{YouTube|B-2MenrnR2U|"Fool to Cry"}}}}

}}

"Fool to Cry" is a ballad by English rock band the Rolling Stones from their 1976 album Black and Blue.

The song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Mick Taylor had just left the band and the Stones were left without a lead guitarist. The recording of Black and Blue acted as a sort of audition for new guitarists, which led to session man Wayne Perkins playing guitar on this track.{{citation needed|date=August 2010}} Jagger plays electric piano and Nicky Hopkins performs acoustic piano on the track, with Hopkins also playing the string synthesizer.

Released as the lead single off Black and Blue in 1976, "Fool to Cry" reached No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The full track lasts just over five minutes, whereas the single (as well as edits, this also fades out at the end) lasts just over four minutes.

Cash Box called this "a departure for the Stones," saying that "the beat is relaxed, vocals are laid over a foundation of Fender Rhodes and guitar, all played with funky style" and also praised Jagger's falsetto vocals and Richards' "searing guitar riffs."{{cite magazine|title= Singles Reviews > Picks of the Week |magazine= Cash Box |volume= XXXVII |issue= 48 |page= 31 |date= 17 April 1976 |accessdate= 11 December 2021 |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1976/Cash-Box-1976-04-17.pdf}} Record World said that "this ballad rivals 'Angie' in its soul drenching qualities" and noted that there were "superb performances all around."{{cite magazine|magazine=Record World|date=17 April 1976|page=1|accessdate=2023-03-06|title=Hits of the Week|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/70s/76/RR-1976-04-17.pdf}}

"Fool to Cry" was the only track from Black and Blue to appear on the Stones' career-spanning greatest hits albums Forty Licks in 2002 and GRRR! in 2012.