Something Happened to Me Yesterday
| "Something Happened to Me Yesterday" | |
|---|---|
| Song by The Rolling Stones from the album Between the Buttons | |
| Released | 20 January 1967 (UK) 11 February 1967 (US) |
| Recorded | August 3–11, 1966 |
| Genre | Rock Music Hall |
| Length | 4:55 |
| Label | Decca/ABKCO (UK) London/ABKCO (US) |
| Writer | Jagger/Richards |
| Producer | Andrew Loog Oldham |
"Something Happened to Me Yesterday" is the closing track of The Rolling Stones' 1967 album Between the Buttons.
Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and recorded in August and November 1966, "Something Happened to Me Yesterday" is the first officially released Rolling Stones track to feature Richards on lead vocals. Jagger sings the verses; Richards sings the chorus and plays the electric and acoustic guitars; Charlie Watts is on drums and Bill Wyman on bass. Brian Jones plays the brass instruments and Ian Stewart is on piano.[1]
At the time of the song's release, Jagger said: "I leave it to the individual imagination as to what happened."[1] Matthew Greenwald calls it "one [of] the most accurate songs about LSD."[2]
The song ends with a spoken passage: "Well thank you very much and now I think it's time for us all to go. So from all of us to all of you, not forgetting the boys in the band and our producer Reg Thorpe, we'd like to say God bless. So if you're out tonight, don't forget, if you're on your bike, wear white. Evening all." Jagger has said (plainly facetiously) that this passage is "something I remember hearing on the BBC as the bombs dropped"[1] (i.e. in the first two years of his life).
The Rolling Stones have never performed "Something Happened to Me Yesterday" in concert.[1]
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[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d "Something Happened to Me Yesterday". timeisonourside.com. http://timeisonourside.com/SOSomethingHappened.html. Retrieved 2006-07-28.
- ^ Greenwald, Matthew. "Something Happened to Me Yesterday". allmusic. 2007 (accessed 28 July 2007).
