First time/Last time: Mick and Keith’s first chart-topper
Jeff Jenkins
STACK Writer
Sixty years ago today, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards scored their first number one as songwriters.
The Last Time knocked off Tom Jones’ It’s Not Unusual to take top spot on the UK charts. It spent three weeks at number one.
The song was inspired by The Staple Singers’ This May Be the Last Time.
Fun fact: Phil Spector played bass on Play with Fire, which was the B-side of The Last Time.
The Last Time has been recorded many times. Later in 1965, the Andrew Oldham Orchestra did an orchestral version of the song for The Rolling Stones Songbook, which was issued in 1966.
The orchestral version was sampled by The Verve for their 1997 hit Bitter Sweet Symphony.
When Mick and Keith were busted with drugs in 1967, The Who covered the song, stating: “The Who consider Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have been treated as scapegoats for the drug problem and as a protest against the savage sentence… The Who are issuing today the first of a series of Jagger/Richards songs to keep their work before the public until they are again free to record themselves.”
By the time The Who’s version was released, Mick and Keith had already been released.
Aussie legend John Farnham did The Last Time as the title track of his 2002 album.
The Rolling Stones followed The Last Time with two more Jagger/Richards chart-toppers in 1965: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, and Get Off of My Cloud.
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