Mick Jagger – lead and backing vocals, harmonica on "Gimme Shelter" and "Midnight Rambler"
Keith Richards – acoustic, electric and slide guitar, bass guitar on "Live with Me", backing vocals, lead vocals on "You Got the Silver"
Brian Jones – autoharp on "You Got the Silver", percussion on "Midnight Rambler"
Mick Taylor – electric guitar on "Live with Me", slide guitar on "
Country Honk"
Charlie Watts – drums (except "You Can't Always Get What You Want")
Bill Wyman – bass guitar (except "
Country Honk" and "Live with Me"), autoharp on "Let It Bleed", vibes on "Monkey Man"
Additional personnelIan Stewart – piano on "Let It Bleed"
Nicky Hopkins – piano on "Gimme Shelter", "Live with Me", "You Got the Silver", and "Monkey Man", organ on "You Got the Silver"
Byron Berline – fiddle on "
Country Honk"
Merry Clayton – vocals, backing vocals on "Gimme Shelter" (credited as "Mary Clayton" on the LP and 2002 CD remaster)
Ry Cooder – mandolin on "Love in Vain"
Bobby Keys – tenor saxophone on "Live with Me"
Jimmy Miller – percussion on "Gimme Shelter", drums on "You Can't Always Get What You Want", tambourine on "Monkey Man"
Leon Russell – piano and horn arrangement on "Live with Me"
Jack Nitzsche – choral arrangements on "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Al Kooper – piano, French horn and organ on "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Nanette Workman – backing vocals on "
Country Honk" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (not actress Nanette Newman as credited on the LP)
Doris Troy – backing vocals on "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Madelaine Bell – backing vocals on "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Rocky Dijon – percussion on "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
The London Bach Choir – vocals on "You Can't Always Get What You Want"