Friday Music

This song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, recorded at RCA studios in Hollywood and release in the UK in early 1965.  

I was surprised to learn that the refrain in this song is similar to This May Be The Last Time - a gospel song recorded by the Staple Singers in 1954.  Richards has subsequently acknowledged they they wrote an adaptation of the Staple Singers song which for legal purposes goes back further in the past.  The Stone iteration includes a base melody and a distinctive riff not found in the Family Staple version.

This is some particularly excellent footage of a 1965 concert in Ireland. There is Wyman, Jones, Jagger, Richards and Watts.  This bluesy, gritty, break-up song with a hard-driving guitar riff is one of my all-time favorites.

The Last Time.....