Ruby Tuesday
| "Ruby Tuesday" | ||||
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| Single by The Rolling Stones | ||||
| from the album Between the Buttons (US version) |
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| A-side | "Let's Spend the Night Together" | |||
| Released | 13 January 1967 (UK) | |||
| Recorded | 8 November – 3 December 1966, London, England | |||
| Genre | Baroque pop | |||
| Length | 3:32 | |||
| Label | Decca/ABKCO | |||
| Writer(s) | Jagger/Richards | |||
| Producer | Andrew Loog Oldham | |||
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| Single by The Rolling Stones | ||||
| from the album Flashpoint | ||||
| Released | 24 May 1991 | |||
| Format | 7" vinyl, cassette | |||
| Recorded | 27 February 1990 | |||
| Length | 3:34 | |||
| Label | Rolling Stones | |||
| Writer(s) | Jagger/Richards | |||
| Producer | Chris Kimsey and The Glimmer Twins |
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"Ruby Tuesday" is a song recorded by The Rolling Stones in 1966, released in January 1967. The song, coupled with "Let's Spend the Night Together", was a number-one hit in the United States and reached number three in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Music and inspiration
Multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones played recorder and piano, and the double bass was played jointly by bassist Bill Wyman (pressing the strings against the fingerboard) and Keith Richards (bowing the strings). According to Keith Richards in a 1971 Rolling Stone interview, he wrote the song in a Los Angeles hotel room in early 1966 about a groupie he knew;[1] he has also stated that it was about Linda Keith, his girlfriend in the mid-1960s.[2] The song's lyrics concern an apparently free-spirited woman, with Jagger singing, "Who could hang a name on you?/When you change with every new day/Still I'm gonna miss you."[3]
"That's a wonderful song," Mick Jagger told Jann Wenner in 1995. "It's just a nice melody, really. And a lovely lyric. Neither of which I wrote, but I always enjoy singing it."[4] Bill Wyman states in Rolling with the Stones that the song was completely written by Keith Richards.[page needed] However, Marianne Faithfull recalls it differently; according to her, Brian Jones presented an early version of this melody to the rest of the Rolling Stones.[5] According to Victor Bockris, Richards came up with the basic track and the words and finished the song with Jones in the studio.[6]
According to Keith Richards autobiography, Life, the song was written about his then girlfriend Linda Keith. Linda had taken up with Jimi Hendrix, and had got involved with drugs. She left Keith, and he tried to get her back. He eventually went to her parents and told them she was going down a dark path. Linda's father went to New York to collect her, and by order of court she was grounded. Richards reports that Keith regarded this as a betrayal, and they did not speak again for many years. According to Richards's autobiography, Keith survived, brought up a family, and now lives in New Orleans.[7]
Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song #303 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song title was the source of the restaurant chain of the same name.
This was released on two consecutively released US albums: Between the Buttons and Flowers.[3] A concert rendition of the song from the Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour was released on the band's 1991 concert album Flashpoint. All post-2002 ABKCO reissues of the studio version of "Ruby Tuesday" on CD are missing a vocal overdub in the chorus except for 2007's Rolled Gold +.
[edit] Notable cover versions
- Rotary Connection's rendition, with Minnie Riperton on vocals, appeared on their eponymous 1967 debut album.
- Melanie Safka covered the song on her 1970 album Candles in the Rain; her version was a UK Top Ten hit that year. She recorded a second cover version on her 1978 album Ballroom Streets.
- Nazareth included a cover of the song on their 1984 album The Catch.
- "Weird Al" Yankovic covered this and 11 other Rolling Stones songs in his polka medley, "The Hot Rocks Polka".
- Julian Lennon's rendering of the song was featured on the 1989 compilation entitled Music from the Award Winning Show: The Wonder Years, a soundtrack for The Wonder Years TV series.
- Rod Stewart recorded a cover of the song, which was later included on his 1993 compilation album Lead Vocalist.
- A snippet of the song is often sung by Bono along with "Sympathy for the Devil" during performances of "Bad" at U2 concerts. An example of this is in the U2 documentary/concert footage film Rattle and Hum from 1988.
- The Corrs performed the song with Ronnie Wood on their 2002 VH1 Live in Dublin album and also included it on their 2006 greatest hits album Dreams: The Ultimate Corrs Collection.
- Franco Battiato's cover of "Ruby Tuesday", originally released on Fleurs, is prominently featured in the 2006 film Children of Men.
- Katey Sagal, who portrays Gemma Teller Morrow on the FX drama Sons of Anarchy, recorded a cover of the song for the show's second EP, Shelter.
- Lacey Brown covered the song during the ninth season of American Idol during the The Rolling Stones theme week. Although her performance was praised, she was eliminated on the week's results show. Her full-length recording of the song was available for purchase as "Ruby Tuesday (American Idol Studio Version) - Single" on the iTunes Store during the season's run.
- Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine make significant reference to the song in their 1991 single "After The Watershed".
- Marianne Faithful on the 1994 album Symphonic Music of The Rolling Stones by the London Symphony Orchestra.
- The Gayeblades covered the song on a split 7" for Norton Records Rolling Stones series.
- Crosby Stills & Nash performed a cover of "Ruby Tuesday" on 31 August 2010, during their performance at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts (The original Woodstock site in Sullivan County, New York).
- Gotthard made a cover of this song for their 2002 album One Life One Soul.
- Sylvie Vartan sings "Ruby Tuesday" on her 2007 album Nouvelle Vague.
- Scorpions covered song on their 2011 album Comeblack.
[edit] References
- ^ Greenfield, Robert (19 August 1971). "The Rolling Stone Interview: Keith Richards". Rolling Stone (Rolling Stone)
- ^ McPherson, Ian. "Track Talk: Ruby Tuesday". http://www.timeisonourside.com/SORuby.html. Retrieved 2008-03-17.
- ^ a b Show 46 - Sergeant Pepper at the Summit: The very best of a very good year. [Part 2] : UNT Digital Library
- ^ Wenner, Jann S. (14 December 1995). "Jagger Remembers". http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/mick_jagger_remembers. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
- ^ "Brian Jones", Mojo Magazine, July 1999, p.75
- ^ Bockris, Keith Richards, 1993, p.93-94
- ^ Life (2010, Keith Richards, pp. 186–187
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| Preceded by "Kind of a Drag" by The Buckinghams |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single 4 March 1967 (one week) |
Succeeded by "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" by The Supremes |
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