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"I Wanna Be Your Man" is a rock song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and recorded separately by The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Although The Beatles' version is better-known today, the Rolling Stones' version was released earlier.
The Beatles' version was sung by Ringo Starr and appeared on the album With the Beatles. It was driven by a heavily tremoloed, open E chord on a guitar played through a Vox AC30 amplifier with the "tremolo" setting turned up.
The Rolling Stones' version, an early hit single for them, was very "bluesy" and featured Brian Jones' distinctive slide guitar and Bill Wyman's driving bass playing. It also is one of the few Stones songs to feature backing vocals by Jones. In the USA the song was released later as B-side to "Not Fade Away" on March 6, 1964.
According to various accounts, either the Rolling Stones' manager/producer Andrew Loog Oldham or the Rolling Stones themselves ran into Lennon and McCartney on the street as the two were returning from an awards luncheon. Listening to the Rolling Stones' camp plea for a single, the pair travelled back to rehearsal and finished off the song—whose verse they had already been working on—in the corner of the room while the impressed Rolling Stones watched. Lennon later commented, "That shows how much importance we put on it. We weren't going to give them anything great, right?"[1]
[edit] Credits for The Beatles' version
[edit] Credits for The Rolling Stones' version
The Rolling Stones' rendition did not appear on a regular album. (Except the Around and Around compilation album in 1964). It first appeared as a single. In 1989 it was issued on Singles Collection: The London Years.
[edit] Cover versions
- Keith Richards would often perform a live "cover" of the song during the 1980s when performing solo.
- The Stooges recorded a version [which draws heavily on elements of the Stones version] for their 2007 album The Weirdness.
- The Punkles did a version on their 2006 album For Sale.
[edit] References
- ^ Paul McCartney, Many Years From Now, p. 154, quoting an interview in Hit Parader
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1963: Come On, I Wanna Be Your Man •
1964: Not Fade Away, It's All Over Now, Tell Me, Time Is on My Side, Little Red Rooster, Heart of Stone •
1965: The Last Time / Play with Fire, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Get off of My Cloud, As Tears Go By •
1966: 19th Nervous Breakdown, Paint It, Black, Mother's Little Helper / Lady Jane, Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? •
1967: Let's Spend the Night Together / Ruby Tuesday, We Love You / Dandelion, In Another Land, She's a Rainbow •
1968: Jumpin' Jack Flash, Street Fighting Man •
1969: Honky Tonk Women •
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Rolling Stones/Virgin
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1978: Miss You, Beast of Burden, Respectable, Shattered • 1980: Emotional Rescue, She's So Cold •
1981: Start Me Up, Waiting on a Friend • 1982: Hang Fire, Going to a Go-Go (live), Time Is on My Side (live) •
1983: Undercover of the Night • 1984: She Was Hot • 1986: Harlem Shuffle, One Hit (to the Body) •
1989: Mixed Emotions, Rock and a Hard Place • 1990: Almost Hear You Sigh, Terrifying • 1991: Highwire, Ruby Tuesday (live) •
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