Ruby Tuesday
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7" single cover
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| Single by The Rolling Stones from the album Between the Buttons (U.S. version) |
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| A-side | "Let's Spend the Night Together" | ||||
| Released | January 13, 1967 (UK) | ||||
| Recorded | November 8 - December 13, 1966 | ||||
| Length | 3:32 | ||||
| Label | Decca/ABKCO | ||||
| Writer(s) | Jagger/Richards (on the record) | ||||
| Producer | Andrew Loog Oldham | ||||
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| Single by Rolling Stones from the album Flashpoint |
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| Released | May 24, 1991 | ||||
| Format | 7" vinyl, cassette | ||||
| Length | 3 min 34 s | ||||
| Label | Rolling Stones/Virgin | ||||
| 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 was a number-one hit in the U.S. and a number three in the UK.
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[edit] Music and inspiration
Multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones plays recorder, and the double bass is played by both bassist Bill Wyman (pressing the strings against the fingerboard) and Keith Richards (bowing the strings). The piano is played by Jack Nitzsche.[1]
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;[2] he has also stated that it was about Linda Keith, his girlfriend in the mid-1960s.[1] 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."
"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."[3] Bill Wyman states in Rolling with the Stones that the song was completely written by Keith Richards.[citation needed] However, Marianne Faithfull says in her biography that the song was written by Brian Jones, and that Keith Richards only added minor parts.[citation needed]
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.
A concert rendition 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.
[edit] Cover versions
- American singer-songwriter Melanie Safka covered the song for her 1970 album Candles in the Rain. Her version was a UK Top Ten hit that same year.
- Scottish rock band Nazareth included a cover of the song on their 1984 album The Catch.
- Don Williams covered the song with his American folk music group the Pozo Seco Singers in 1985.
- Julian Lennon's rendition 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.
- Jad Fair and Daniel Johnston cover it on the 1989 album It's Spooky.
- Rod Stewart recorded a cover of the song, which was later included on his 1993 compilation album Lead Vocalist.
- Italian dance artist DJ Miko released a eurodance cover of the song in 1994.
- Emiliana Torrini's 1996 cover (which was included on the Rolling Stones tribute compilation Stone Free) is similar to Melanie Safka's, a major influence of Torrini's.
- The Swiss hard rock band Gotthard released it on the 2002 compilation album One Life, One Soul.
- A cover by Franco Battiato was included on the soundtrack of the 2006 film Children of Men.
- A snippet of the song is often sung by Bono along with "Sympathy for the Devil" during performances of "Bad" at U2 concerts, most notably performed at Live Aid in London. Another example of this is in the U2 documentary/concert footage film Rattle and Hum from 1988.
- German singer Nena often sings the song in concert. While available on her live DVD, to date it has never been officially released or re-recorded in the studio.
- Ohio-based band Over the Rhine has covered the song in concerts. A version was included on their live Amateur Shortwave Radio album in 1999.
- A live performance of the song by the East German rock band Silly is available on one of their concert DVDs. A live acoustic version is on a CD they released with the German singer Gerhard Gundermann on the 1999 album Silly & Gundermann & Seilschaft Unplugged.
- The song is a favorite of Irish pop band The Corrs. They performed it with Ronnie Wood for their 2002 VH1 Live in Dublin album, and also included it on their 2006 album Dreams: The Ultimate Corrs Collection.
[edit] In popular culture
- A snippet from this song plays a vital part in the 1997 Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things.
- The song is featured in the 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums in a scene with Luke Wilson and Gwyneth Paltrow. The scene also features the Rolling Stones song "She Smiled Sweetly".
- The song appears in the 2006 film Children of Men.
[edit] References
- ^ a b McPherson, Ian. Track Talk: Ruby Tuesday. Retrieved on 2008-03-17.
- ^ Greenfield, Robert (August 19 1971), “The Rolling Stone Interview: Keith Richards”, Rolling Stone (Rolling Stone)
- ^ Wenner, Jann S. (14 December 1995). Jagger Remembers. Retrieved on 2008-03-18.
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| Preceded by "Kind of a Drag" by The Buckinghams |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single March 4, 1967 |
Succeeded by "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" by The Supremes |
