Let's Spend the Night Together

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They said we were too young
Our kind of love was no fun
But our love comes from above
Let's make ... love

Author Nicholas Pegg describes the recording as "faster and raunchier" than the Stones' performance with "a fresh, futuristic sheen", [31] while NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray considered Bowie to have performed "the unprecedented feat of beating the Stones on one of their own songs", remarking on the track's "polymorphous perversity" and "furious, coked-up drive". [32] However, Rolling Stone's contemporary review found the Bowie version "campy, butch, brittle and unsatisfying". [33]

In addition to its appearance on Aladdin Sane, Bowie's version of "Let's Spend the Night Together" was included on the following compilations:

Personnel

According to biographer Chris O'Leary: [36]

Production

Other versions

Muddy Waters recorded a version of the song in 1968.

Claudine Longet recorded a more sensual version with bongos for her 1972 album Let's Spend the Night Together.

Jerry Garcia recorded a Folk Rock version for his 1974 album Compliments

See also

References

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  17. "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Let's Spend the Night Together". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
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  20. Hallberg, Eric (1993). Eric Hallberg presenterar Kvällstoppen i P 3: Sveriges radios topplista över veckans 20 mest sålda skivor 10. 7. 1962 - 19. 8. 1975. Drift Musik. p. 243. ISBN   9163021404.
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  27. Thompson, Dave (2010). Hallo Spaceboy: The Rebirth of David Bowie. ECW Press. p. 26. ISBN   978-1-55490-271-2.
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  32. Carr & Murray 1981, p. 55.
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  34. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Best of David Bowie 1974/1979 – David Bowie". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 6 October 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  35. Viglione, Joe. "Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 24 April 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  36. O'Leary 2015, chap. 6.

Sources

"Let's Spend the Night Together"
Rolling Stones LSTNT.jpg
West German picture sleeve
Single by the Rolling Stones
from the album Between the Buttons (US release)
A-side "Ruby Tuesday" (double A-side)
Released13 January 1967
RecordedDecember 1966
Studio RCA Victor (Hollywood, California)
Genre Rock
Length3:29
Label
Songwriter(s) Jagger/Richards
Producer(s) Andrew Loog Oldham
The Rolling Stonessingles chronology
"Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?"
(1966)
"Let's Spend the Night Together" / "Ruby Tuesday"
(1967)
"We Love You"
(1967)
Audio
"Let's Spend the Night Together" on YouTube