Mick Jagger - lead vocals, backing vocals, harmonica on "Gimme Shelter" and "Midnight Rambler"
Brian Jones - autoharp on "You Got the Silver", percussion on "Midnight Rambler"
Keith Richards - acoustic, electric, and slide guitar, bass guitar on "Live with Me", backing vocals, lead vocals on "You Got the Silver"
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"

Ian 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"[13]