It was very mournful, very, VERY Ruby Tuesday and it was a Tuesday.” I don’t know, she had pissed off somewhere. Richards said in According to the Rolling Stones: “It was probably written about Linda Keith not being there (laughs). It may have been inspired by Linda Keith, who was Keith Richards’ girlfriend. The fourth US #1 hit for the Rolling Stones, this ballad is about a groupie. And for a songwriter, hey break his heart and he’ll come up with a good song.” It’s one of those songs that are easiest to write because you’re really right there and you really sort of mean it. And all you’ve got left is the piano and the guitar and a pair of panties. Keith Richards: “That’s one of those things – some chick you’ve broken up with. This song peaked at #1 in the Billboard 100 in 1967. This song was the B side to “Let’s Spend The Night Together.” You don’t hear much about Brian now but he expanded their sound in the mid-sixties with an array of instruments.īill Wyman said that Keith wrote the lyrics and Brian helped finish the melody. Brian Jones plays the recorder (it sounds like a flute) in this song. Yes, I love the electric blues slanted work they did after this but they wrote some great pop songs. I wish this era of the Stones would have lasted longer.
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