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", [30] 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". [31] However, Rolling Stone's contemporary review found the Bowie version "campy, butch, brittle and unsatisfying". [32]

Other releases

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: [35]

Production

See also

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"Let's Spend the Night Together"
Rolling Stones LSTNT.jpg
German single 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
RecordedAugust 1966
Studio RCA, 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