We Love You

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Recorded the month after The Beatles’ “All You Need is Love”, this more urgently paced, and obviously cynical, combative contribution to Britain’s Summer Of Love is an us-and-them taunt from a band on the run, a defiant, two-fingered retaliation to concerted establishment attempts to jail Jagger, Richards and Jones for drug use and general bad manners. The hunted footsteps and slamming jail doors punctuating the record, and the Jagger-as-Wilde promo reel that completes it, shows the distorted scale of the year’s persecution which, for all the song’s sly bravado, helped kill Jones, and cripple the Stones.

Personnel

According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon: [1]

The Rolling Stones

Additional musicians

Technical staff

Charts

"We Love You"
"We Love You" Dutch picture sleeve.jpg
Dutch picture sleeve
Single by the Rolling Stones
A-side "Dandelion" (US)
B-side "Dandelion" (UK)
Released
  • 18 August 1967 (1967-08-18) (UK) [1]
  • 2 September 1967 (US) [2]
Recorded13, 21 June, 2 and 19 July 1967 [1]
Studio Olympic, London
Genre
Length4:38
Label
Songwriter(s) Jagger–Richards
Producer(s) Andrew Loog Oldham
The Rolling Stones UK singles chronology
"Let's Spend the Night Together" / "Ruby Tuesday"
(1967)
"We Love You"
(1967)
"Jumpin' Jack Flash"
(1968)
The Rolling Stones US singles chronology
"Let's Spend the Night Together" / "Ruby Tuesday"
(1967)
"Dandelion" / "We Love You"
(1967)
"She's a Rainbow"
(1967)
Chart (1967)Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) [29] 5
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [30] 14
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [31] 1
Finland (Soumen Virallinen) [32] 31
Germany (GfK) [33] 2
Ireland (IRMA) [34] 14
Italy ( Musica e dischi ) [35] 10
Norway (VG-lista) [36] 9
Sweden (Kvällstoppen) [37] 5
UK Singles (OCC) [38] 8
US Billboard Hot 100 [39] 50

Cover versions

The Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto covered the song on his 1989 album Beauty , with vocals by Robert Wyatt [40] and Brian Wilson. [41] One-time Sparks bassist Martin Gordon released a version on his first solo album The Baboon in the Basement in 2003.

References

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