Which brings us to the flip side of this 45: “Ruby Tuesday.”Īccording to his autobiography, Life, Richards wrote the dulcet love song for his girlfriend, Linda Keith (I jokingly imagine Keith first asked Mick to write his girlfriend a song, and he came up with “Yesterday’s Papers. Like on most of Aftermath, Jones embraces his true talent as a jack-of-all-trades musician, adding an eclectic gamut of frills to these recordings, raising them from merely catchy tunes, to hauntingly memorable masterpieces. It’s a great, upbeat pop song, written to ride the waves emanating from the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds and the Kinks’ Face to Face, both released just months prior. Complementing Nitzche is Brian Jones on the electric organ. Shortly after, Jagger joins Richards, crooning the iconic backing track, “ba-ba da-da ba ba da-da-da”. As the story goes, after the disgruntled Stones performed the modified, milquetoast lyrics, they returned to the set in Nazi uniforms in protest of the draconian diminution of their lyrical freedoms.Īs for the song itself, “Let’s Spend Some Time The Night Together” is the Stones’ first foray into pop music, after several subdued attempts on Aftermath. It opens with a great stereo mix: Jack Nitzsche, on the right channel, starts rocking away on the piano, as Keith Richards is romping the bass on the left. The hook was deemed so brazenly taboo for 60’s airwaves, the Ed Sullivan Show insisted Mick Jagger change the chorus to, “let’s spend some time together”. We could have fun just groovin’ around, around and around While the Beatles were weaving love ballads onto the grooves of Revolver, with songs like “Here, There and Everywhere”, the Stones took a different route, jettisoning subtly, for straightforward sexual advance.
This affinity for agitating the authorities began back in 1967 when the Stones were recording their new, poppy single, “Let’s Spend the Night Together.” Although the song’s suggestively seductive lyrics may seem innocuous by today’s standards, they were anything but in 1967. The coda to Goat’s Head Soup, “Star Star”, featured more f-bombs than Joe Pesci in Goodfellas on their 1975 American tour, Mick Jagger was meandering the stage while riding a giant inflatable penis and there was the drug bust where they had so much dope on them, they were charged with trafficking like some coterie of Colombian drug lords. In the ’70s, the Rolling Stones were infamous for courting controversy. Let’s Spend the Night Together/Ruby Tuesday
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