One of my earliest recollections of hearing the Rolling Stones was on a family vacation in 1971. We had traveled to a rental house on Lake Michigan for the first week of summer vacation in June of that year. The weather was cold and rainy and the lake temperature was probably about 50 F, as a result we spent most of the week inside. Luckily my siblings had found the cottage owner's record collection and a crash course in the era's rock filled my 9 year old ears and mind. It was the first time I heard the Beatles whole Sgt, Pepper album and the 'Let it Bleed' LP by the Rolling Stones.
I wasn't aware of it at the time but sadly the Stones' songwriters Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were quickly approaching age 30, the age when all songwriters start becoming a shadow of their glorious past.
Here are three interpretations of Jagger and Richards compositions.
Cub - She's Like a Rainbow
Wilco with Bob Weir - Dead Flowers
This last song is Bittersweet Symphony by the Verve. The band sampled a orchestral arrangement of the Stones' song 'The Last Time' as the melody for the song. Turns out lawyers determined they used too large of a sample and Jagger and Richards were given credit as song writers and 100% of royalties,
Lead singer of the Verve Richard Ashcroft said at the time the lawsuit was settled "It's the best song the Rolling Stones have written in 20 years". To this day they still haven't written anything worthwhile since the early 70's, If you like 'Bittersweet Symphony' and have it in your collection head on over to iTunes and buy a different Verve song so that they get paid something.
Too Bloody right with the last bit.Like that Cub song.
ReplyDelete