Friday Music

The Last Time is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones and the band's first single written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.  Recorded at RCA Studios in Hollywood, California in January 1965, this was the band's third UK single to reach number one on the UK Singles Chart, spending three weeks at the top in March and early April 1965.  It reached number two in the Irish Singles Chart in March 1965.      

Although the song is credited to Jagger and Richards, the refrain is very close to This May Be the Last Time, a 1958 song by the Staple Singers.  In 2003, Richards acknowledged this, saying: "we came up with 'The Last Time', which was basically re-adapting a traditional gospel song that had been sung by the Staple Singers, but luckily the song itself goes back into the mists of time." The Rolling Stones' song has a main melody and a hook (a distinctive guitar riff) that were both absent in the Staple Singers' version.  Phil Spector, whose 'Wall of Sound' approach can be heard on the recording, assisted with the production.     

Footage still exists of a number of performances of this song by the Rolling Stones in 1965 including The Ed Sullivan Show.  Wiki