1993: Rod Stewart recorded a version of the song that was included on his 1993 compilation album Lead Vocalist.
1989: "Weird Al" Yankovic recorded this song and 11 other Rolling Stones songs in his polka medley, " The Hot Rocks Polka".
1989: Julian Lennon released a version of the song on the compilation album entitled The Wonder Years: Music from the Emmy Award-Winning Show & Its Era, a soundtrack for The Wonder Years TV series.
1984: Nazareth released a version of the song on their album The Catch.
1979: Pozo-Seco Singers featuring Don Williams released a version of the song on their album Spend Some Time With Me.
She recorded a second cover version on her 1978 album Ballroom Streets.
1970: Melanie Safka released a version of the song on her album Candles in the Rain her version was a UK Top Ten hit that year.
1969: Oliver released a version of the song on his album Good Morning Starshine.
1967: Rotary Connection's rendition, with Minnie Riperton on vocals, appeared on their album Rotary Connection.
1967: Richard Anthony recorded a French version called "fille sauvage".
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Bill Wyman - double bass (fingers on fingerboard), bass guitar.
Mick Jagger - lead vocals, backing vocals, tambourine.
A July 2013 live performance is featured on Sweet Summer Sun: Hyde Park Live. The 2002 ABKCO reissues of the song is missing a vocal overdub in the chorus, but this appears to be an error, as the version on 2007's Rolled Gold+, 2012's GRRR! and the 2013 iTunes remasters contain the overdub.Ī concert rendition of the song from the Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour was released on the band's 1991 concert album Flashpoint. The song was released on two consecutively released US albums: Between the Buttons and Flowers. The song title was the source of the restaurant chain of the same name. Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song #310 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. According to Richards's autobiography, Linda Keith survived, brought up a family, and now lives in New Orleans. Richards reports that Linda regarded this as a betrayal, and they did not speak again for many years. Linda's father went to New York to collect her, and by order of court she was grounded. He eventually went to her parents and told them she was going down a dark path. She left Richards, and he tried to get her back. Linda had taken up with Jimi Hendrix, and had got involved with drugs. Īccording to Richards's autobiography, Life, the song was written about his girlfriend Linda Keith. According to Victor Bockris, Richards came up with the basic track and the words and finished the song with Jones in the studio. However, Marianne Faithfull recalls it differently according to her, Brian Jones presented an early version of this melody to the rest of the Rolling Stones. Neither of which I wrote, but I always enjoy singing it." Bill Wyman states in Rolling with the Stones that the lyrics were completely written by Keith Richards with help from Brian Jones on the musical composition. "That's a wonderful song," Mick Jagger told Jann Wenner in 1995. 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." 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 he has also stated that it was about Linda Keith, his girlfriend in the mid-1960s. Multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones played recorder and piano, and the double bass was played jointly by bassist Bill Wyman (pressing the strings against the fingerboard) and Keith Richards (bowing the strings).