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Tattoo You is een album van de Engelse rockband The Rolling Stones, uitgegeven in 1981. Het bevat de hits "Start Me Up" en "Waiting on a Friend". Een aantal nummers van het album werden opgenomen tijdens de Goats Head Soup-sessies en andere tijden. Daardoor is de opnamedatum van het album erg lang en bestaat het vooral uit nummers die de Rolling Stones nog over hadden. Toch is Tattoo You een van hun succesvolste langspeelplaten.

"Tops" en "Waiting on a Friend" werden opgenomen tijdens de Goats Head Soup-sessies. "Start Me Up", "Slave" en "Worried About You" werden opgenomen tijdens de Black and Blue-sessies. "Start Me Up" was oorspronkelijk een reggaenummer, maar werd niet uitgegeven omdat gitarist Keith Richards bang was dat hij het riffje van het nummer ergens anders had gehoord. Later werd dit wel een van de vaste openingsnummers bij concerten van de band. "Hang Fire", "Little T&A", "Black Limousine" en "No Use in Crying" werden opgenomen tijdens de Emotional Rescue-sessies. "Neighbours" en "Heaven" waren de enige nummers die werden opgenomen tijdens de Tattoo You-sessies, maar op "Heaven" spelen alleen drummer Charlie Watts, bassist Bill Wyman en zanger Mick Jagger.

In 1994 werd Tattoo You geremasterd en herdrukt door Virgin Records.

In 2021 is een luxe-editie uitgebracht om het veertigjarig jubileum luister bij te zetten.

Tattoo You is the sixteenth U.K. and eighteenth U.S. studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 24 August 1981 by Rolling Stones Records. The album is mostly composed of studio outtakes recorded during the 1970s, and contains one of the band's most well-known songs, "Start Me Up", which hit number two on the US Billboard singles charts.

A combination of touring obligations and personal feuding between band members made it difficult to arrange dedicated recording sessions for the band's follow-up to 1980's Emotional Rescue. As a result, the band's production team combed through unused recordings from prior sessions, some dating back almost a decade. While a few of the songs were used essentially as-is in their original form, most of these earlier recordings were not complete, consisting of song fragments requiring much work. Studio time was booked throughout 1980 and 1981 and band members came in when available to finish off the tracks.

The credited members of the Rolling Stones for the album were vocalist Mick Jagger, guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts while older tracks feature former Stones guitarist Mick Taylor ("Tops"), keyboardists Nicky Hopkins and Billy Preston, Black and Blue session guitarist Wayne Perkins ("Worried About You") and founding member Ian Stewart.

The album proved to be both a critical and commercial success upon release, reaching the top of the US Billboard 200. To date, it is the final Rolling Stones album to reach the top position of the US charts, concluding the band's string of eight consecutive number-one albums there, dating back to 1971's Sticky Fingers.

In 1989, it was ranked No. 34 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s. In 2003, the album was ranked number 211 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, then re-ranked number 213 in the 2012 revised list. Peter Corriston, who was responsible for the album cover's concept origination, art direction and design, won a Grammy Award in the category of Best Album Package.

A remastered 40th-anniversary edition of the album was released on 22 October 2021. It features nine previously unreleased tracks and a 1982 concert at Wembley Stadium.