It’s probably the song that I heard in the radio that prompted me to make the purchase, I would imagine. Or the imagery of all the tattooed faces on an end aisle display? But it made a fan out of me, for life.
Start Me Up started as a “reggae” sounding track in 1975. They then did two takes more up tempo, but bagged the song, feeling it just wasn’t there. Those two takes were rediscovered by an engineer years later, and evolved into what we know.