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The Rolling Stones – Ruby Tuesday (3:14)

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“Ruby Tuesday” is a song recorded by The Rolling Stones in 1966, released on 13 January 1967. The song was a number-one hit in the US and a number three in the UK. It was released as a single but it appeared later that week on the album Between the Buttons.

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. 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.”

“That’s a wonderful song,” Mick Jagger told Jann Wenner (Rolling Stone magazine) in 1995. “It’s just a nice melody, really. And a lovely lyric. Neither of which I wrote, but I always enjoy singing it.”Bill Wyman states in Rolling with the Stones (BW’s diary later released in bookform) that the song was completely written by Keith Richards. However, Marianne Faithfull says in her biography that the song was written by Brian Jones, and that Keith Richards only added minor parts

Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song #303 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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  • Forty Licks (disc 1)
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  • Between the Buttons
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  • citawijaya

    Kristen Wiig.

    2 hours ago

  • paradrome

    luv that awesome recorder!!

    Tuesday morning

  • Roy1968Wood

    Brian Jones had begun experimenting with various instruments when the Stones recorded this tune and Jones' use of the recorder on Ruby Tuesday added a very nice touch to a very good song.

    16 days ago

  • Drag30

    You will lose your mind.

    24 days ago

  • scott0329

    Loose your dreams and you'll your mind.

    last month

  • hannuuuuh

    favorite Stones song

    last month

  • pablo323

    The way he sings "Goodbye" really reminds "Goodbye Blue Sky". [4]

    March 2012

  • Sheik777

    The way he sings "Goodbye" really reminds "Goodbye Blue Sky". [3]

    March 2012

  • TheHutchman

    Yesterday don't matter if it's gone.

    February 2012

  • ben12a

    Love the flute in this song.Rolling Stones.One of the top ten groups of all time.

    January 2012

  • lostin60

    Good oldie!!!

    January 2012

  • TheDarkSide73

    Goodbye Ruby Tuesday....Hello Wild Wednesday... :-)

    January 2012

  • escandaalosa

    "there's no time to loose" i heard her say

    January 2012

  • oldiesfanjohn

    it`s not a flute,Brian used a recorder

    January 2012

  • me_araujo

    The way he sings "Goodbye" really reminds "Goodbye Blue Sky". [2]

    December 2011

  • readveronica1

    reminds me of paisley skirts and love beads

    September 2011

  • Drag30

    Amazing track.

    September 2011

  • tabletopdrummer

    Who could hang a name on you?

    September 2011

  • RustyChile

    Love the song, not so much the restaurant.....

    August 2011

  • jakushkov

    Great song, great chorus. The way he sings "Goodbye" really reminds "Goodbye Blue Sky".

    August 2011
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