The Last Time (Rolling Stones song)

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"The Who consider Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have been treated as scapegoats for the drug problem and as a protest against the savage sentence imposed on them at Chichester yesterday, The Who are issuing today the first of a series of Jagger/Richard songs to keep their work before the public until they are again free to record themselves. [27]

The songs were rush recorded and the record appeared in shops in only one week. However, by the time the single was made available, Jagger and Richards had been released. As John Entwistle was away on his honeymoon he authorised the Who to do the record without him and bass parts were overdubbed by Pete Townshend. [28] The UK-only release reached number 44 on the UK Singles Chart. [29]

Other renditions

Covers of the song were recorded by garage rock bands in the 1960s. The Sceptres, a group from Glen Ellyn, Illinois, recorded it as a B-side in 1965. [30] The girl group The Debutantes recorded a version in the 1960s, but the track was not released until 2018. [31]

American country music singer Bobby Bare covered the song on his 1978 album, Sleeper Wherever I Fall.

In 1997, country music group the Tractors covered the song on the album Stone Country: Country Artists Perform the Songs of the Rolling Stones . Their version peaked at number 75 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [32]

Australian singer John Farnham covered the song in 2002, as the lead single and title track of his 2002 album, The Last Time . [33]

The same hook was sampled in several subsequent recordings by other artists, most notably in "Number 1" by Tinchy Stryder featuring N-Dubz, which reached number one in the UK Singles Chart, in the week of its official release on 20 April 2009. [34] [35]

Notes

  1. ↑ Margotin and Guesdon are uncertain, but suggest Jagger may have also provided backing vocals. [8]

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"The Last Time"
RollStones-Single1965 TheLastTime.jpg
1965 US single picture sleeve
Single by the Rolling Stones
B-side "Play with Fire"
Released26 February 1965 (UK) [1]
  • March 1965 (US)
Recorded11–12 January 1965
Studio RCA, Hollywood, California
Genre Hard rock [2]
Length3:41
Label
Songwriter(s) Jagger/Richards [3]
Producer(s) Andrew Loog Oldham [3]
The Rolling Stones UK singles chronology
"Little Red Rooster"
(1964)		"The Last Time"
(1965)		"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
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