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THE ROLLING STONES Released Hit Single ‘AS TEARS GO BY’ Today 60 Years Ago
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18 December 2025
THE ROLLING STONES released their hit single AS TEARS GO BY
in the US, today 60 years ago, on 18 December 1965. A year later
it came out in the UK.
The ballad was written by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and their manager
Andrew Oldham. It was one of their first self-written songs. It was given
to MARIANNE FAITHFULL in 1964, and went to #7 in the UK.
Faithfull: “I was never that crazy about ‘As Tears Go By’. God knows
how Mick and Keith wrote it or where it came from. In any case, it is
an absolutely astonishing thing for a boy of 20 to have written a song
about a woman looking back nostalgically on her life.”
A year later, The Stones put their version on their longplayer
December’s Children (And Everybody’s) that came out early
December. It was their North American record label that decided
to release it as a single on 18 December 1965.
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MARIANNE FAITHFULL
THE ROLLING STONES Topped The US Singles Chart With ‘GET OFF MY CLOUD’ This Day 60 Years Ago
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6 November 2025
THE ROLLING STONES topped the US Singles Chart today 60 years ago,
on 6 Nov 1965, with GET OFF MY CLOUD. It knocked The Beatles’ ‘Yesterday’
from the No.1 spot.
It also went to the top seat of the charts in the UK, Canada, and
Germany and reached the top-5 in several other countries.
Keith Richards in 1971: “I never dug it as a record. The chorus was a nice idea, but
we rushed it as the follow-up. We were in L.A. where, (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction was
recorded, and it was time for another single.
But how do you follow-up “Satisfaction”? Actually, what I wanted was to do it slow, like
a Lee Dorsey thing. We rocked it up. I thought it was one of Andrew Loog Oldham’s worst productions.”
‘I said, “Hey (hey), you (you), get off of my cloud”
Hey (hey), you (you), get off of my cloud
Hey (hey), you (you), get off of my cloud
Don’t hang around boy, two’s a crowd
On my cloud
Oh, yes‘
THE ROLLING STONES Released Their Memorable Live Album ‘GET YER YA-YA’S OUT!’ Today 55 Years Ago
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4 September 2025
THE ROLLING STONES one of the greatest rock bands in music history
released their first live album, GET YOUR YA-YA’S OUT! on 4 Sept 1970,
today 55 years ago.
It was recorded at New York’s Madison Square
Garden on 27th & 28th November 1969.
The record starts with an ecstatic announcement:
“Everybody ready? The greatest band in the world…
The Rolling Stones!”
The late great, confrontational journalist Lester Bangs wrote back then in
Rolling Stone Magazine: “The Rolling Stones are most assuredly not in trouble,
and are looking like an even greater force in the years ahead than they have been.
It’s still too soon to tell, but I’m beginning to think Ya-Ya’s just might be the best
album they ever made.
I have no doubt that it’s the best rock concert ever put on record. The Stones, alone
among their generation of groups, are not about to fall by the wayside. And as long
as they continue to thrive this way, the era of true rock and roll music will remain
alive and kicking with them.”
STREAM YA YA’S
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24 August 2025 – PICTURE OF THE DAY
The Stones’ legendary drummer
Charlie Watts passed away four
years ago today.
2 June 1941 – 24 August 2021
THE ROLLING STONES – 50 Years Ago They Released Their 3rd LP ‘”OUT OF OUR HEADS’ With Two Different Front Covers
30 July 2025
OUT OF OUR HEADS, the 3rd LP by THE ROLLING STONES
was released in two editions with different covers and track
listings.
In the US, London Records released it on 30 July 1965, today 50 years ago,
as the band’s 4th American album, while Decca Records released its UK
edition on 24 September 1965 as the 3rd British album. Weird, but those
were the marketing ways back then.
US Cover
UK Cover
The American version featured their first No. 1 single
over the ocean with (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.
In the UK the classic firecracker was initially played only on pirate radio stations,
because its lyrics were considered too sexually suggestive. Later, in August, it was
finally officially released as a single and became the Stones‘ 4th number one in
their home country.
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US version
26 July 1980 – THE ROLLING STONES Topped US Charts With Funky Rock Album ‘EMOTIONAL RESCUE’
26 July 2025
Eternal rock stars THE ROLLING STONES released their
15th LP EMOTIONAL RESCUE stuffed with funky, dance,
nightclub rockers.
Despite the poor critics, the album topped the US Charts for 7 consecutive weeks starting this day 45 years ago, on 26 July 1980. It also reached the No. 1 spot on the British and Canadian UK Charts.
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THE ROLLING STONES – Today 60 Years Ago Their Timeless Classic ‘(I CAN’T GET NO) SATISFACTION’ Was Released
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4 June 2025
THE ROLLING STONES released one of their biggest hits
with (I CAN’T GET NO) SATISFACTION on 4 June 1965,
today 60 years ago.
It topped the UK and US charts and was also #1 in several European countries.
It was (as usual) written by glimmer twins Jagger & Richards, but it was Keef‘s ace
riff, intended to be replaced by horns, that made this classic the steamy stunner
we all know. Add the controversial lyrics about sexual aggravation and greedy commercialism and you have the hot recipe for a timeless blockbuster.
In the US (where the single was released a month later) it was initially
played only on pirate radios, because of the sexually suggestive content.
26 MAY… This Day Back In Time
26 May 2025
THE BEATLES released their 8th longplayer, masterpiece
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on 26 May 1967,
today 58 years ago.
The album had an immediate cross-generational impact and was associated with numerous touchstones of the era’s youth culture, such as fashion, drugs, mysticism,
and a sense of optimism and empowerment.
It topped nearly all album charts around the world.
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Goth gods THE CURE released their 7th album
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me today 38 years ago,
on 26 May 1987.
Robert Smith: “It’s like an end to what we’ve been doing for the last 10 years.
This one is taking bits from everything we’ve done, all the bits that I’ve liked. But
there’s a single album’s worth of that and a single album’s worth of stuff we’ve
never really attempted before.”
No. 6 in the UK. No. 4 in Germany and Austria. No. 35 in the US.
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THE ROLLING STONES reached the top seat of the UK Singles Chart
with Paint It, Black on 26 May 1966, today 59 years ago.
I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes…
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BLONDIE hit the top spot of the UK Singles Charts on 26 May 1979,
today 46 years ago with pop pearl Sunday Girl. It was part of their
splendid Parallel Lines LP.
The song was written by Chris Stein, inspired by Debbie Harry‘s cat, who was named
Sunday Man. The cat had recently run away, inspiring the song’s “plaintive” nature.
14 April 1975 – RONNIE WOOD Presented As The New ROLLING STONES Guitarist 50 Years Ago Today
14 April 2025
No solo albums anymore, Ronnie
After Brian Jones drowned in his pool in July 1969, The Rolling Stones replaced him with the young guitar wizard Mick Taylor who played at the time with blues hero John Mayall (who passed away last year, aged 90).
In 1975 Taylor left.
The search for a new 6-string man started once again. Rumours spread names such as Jimmy Page, Steve Marriott, Jeff Beck and Chris Spedding. But it was former Faces riff-roaster Ronnie Wood (aged 77 now) who was presented as the Rolling Stones‘ new guitarist on
14 April 1975, today 50 years ago.
The first LP Wood played on (3 songs) was, Black And Blue from 1976.
