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Track List:
1. I Wanna Be Your Man (0:00)
2. Stoned (1:43)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
"I Wanna Be Your Man" is a Lennon–McCartney-penned song first recorded and released as a single by the Rolling Stones, and then recorded by the Beatles for their second studio album With the Beatles. The song was primarily written by Paul McCartney, and finished by McCartney with John Lennon in the corner of a Richmond, London, club while Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were talking.
The Rolling Stones version
Released as their second single on 1 November 1963, the Stones's version was the group's first UK top-20 hit, peaking at number 12 on the British chart. Their rendition features Brian Jones's distinctive slide guitar and Bill Wyman's driving bass playing. It is one of the few Rolling Stones songs to feature only Brian Jones on backing vocals. In the US, the song was initially released as London 45-LON 9641 (with "Stoned" on the B-side) without any success and was soon after re-released on 6 March 1964 as the B-side to "Not Fade Away".
According to various accounts, either Andrew Loog Oldham, the Rolling Stones' manager/producer, or the Rolling Stones themselves ran into Lennon and McCartney on the street as the two were returning from an awards luncheon. Hearing that the group were in need of material for a single, Lennon and McCartney went to their session at De Lane Lea Studio and finished off the song – whose verse they had already been working on – in the corner of the room while the impressed Rolling Stones watched.
McCartney stated in 2016:
We were friends with them, and I just thought "I Wanna Be Your Man" would be good for them. I knew they did Bo Diddley stuff. And they made a good job of it.
Bill Wyman noted how the Rolling Stones adapted the song to their style:
We kind of learned it pretty quickly 'cause there wasn't that much to learn. Then Brian got his slide out, his steel (guitar) out and dadaw ... dadaw ... and we said, 'Yeah, that's better, dirty it up a bit and bash it out', and we kind of completely turned the song around and made it much more tough, Stones- and Elmore James-like.
Released only as a single, the Rolling Stones' rendition did not appear on a studio album. The song was reissued in the UK on the Decca compilation albums Milestones (1972) and Rolled Gold: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones (1975). In 1989, it was issued on the US compilation album Singles Collection: The London Years. It is included on the four-CD version of the 2012 GRRR! compilation.
The B-side of the second single was "Stoned", a "Green Onions"–influenced instrumental composed by Nanker/Phelge, the early collective pseudonym for the group. Additionally, it included the "Sixth Stone" pianist Ian Stewart, making it the first released self-penned composition, with added spoken asides by Mick Jagger. Some original 1963 copies were issued with the misprinted title as "Stones", making it doubly collectable as a rarity.
On 1 January 1964, the Stones' "I Wanna Be Your Man" was performed on the first episode of the BBC's Top of the Pops, making them the first band to appear on the show. A performance of the song on The Arthur Haynes Show recorded on 7 February 1964 appears in the 1995 docu-series The Beatles Anthology and as part of the bonus material on the 2012 documentary film Crossfire Hurricane.
Track List:
1. I Wanna Be Your Man (0:00)
2. Stoned (1:43)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
"I Wanna Be Your Man" is a Lennon–McCartney-penned song first recorded and released as a single by the Rolling Stones, and then recorded by the Beatles for their second studio album With the Beatles. The song was primarily written by Paul McCartney, and finished by McCartney with John Lennon in the corner of a Richmond, London, club while Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were talking.
The Rolling Stones version
Released as their second single on 1 November 1963, the Stones's version was the group's first UK top-20 hit, peaking at number 12 on the British chart. Their rendition features Brian Jones's distinctive slide guitar and Bill Wyman's driving bass playing. It is one of the few Rolling Stones songs to feature only Brian Jones on backing vocals. In the US, the song was initially released as London 45-LON 9641 (with "Stoned" on the B-side) without any success and was soon after re-released on 6 March 1964 as the B-side to "Not Fade Away".
According to various accounts, either Andrew Loog Oldham, the Rolling Stones' manager/producer, or the Rolling Stones themselves ran into Lennon and McCartney on the street as the two were returning from an awards luncheon. Hearing that the group were in need of material for a single, Lennon and McCartney went to their session at De Lane Lea Studio and finished off the song – whose verse they had already been working on – in the corner of the room while the impressed Rolling Stones watched.
McCartney stated in 2016:
We were friends with them, and I just thought "I Wanna Be Your Man" would be good for them. I knew they did Bo Diddley stuff. And they made a good job of it.
Bill Wyman noted how the Rolling Stones adapted the song to their style:
We kind of learned it pretty quickly 'cause there wasn't that much to learn. Then Brian got his slide out, his steel (guitar) out and dadaw ... dadaw ... and we said, 'Yeah, that's better, dirty it up a bit and bash it out', and we kind of completely turned the song around and made it much more tough, Stones- and Elmore James-like.
Released only as a single, the Rolling Stones' rendition did not appear on a studio album. The song was reissued in the UK on the Decca compilation albums Milestones (1972) and Rolled Gold: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones (1975). In 1989, it was issued on the US compilation album Singles Collection: The London Years. It is included on the four-CD version of the 2012 GRRR! compilation.
The B-side of the second single was "Stoned", a "Green Onions"–influenced instrumental composed by Nanker/Phelge, the early collective pseudonym for the group. Additionally, it included the "Sixth Stone" pianist Ian Stewart, making it the first released self-penned composition, with added spoken asides by Mick Jagger. Some original 1963 copies were issued with the misprinted title as "Stones", making it doubly collectable as a rarity.
On 1 January 1964, the Stones' "I Wanna Be Your Man" was performed on the first episode of the BBC's Top of the Pops, making them the first band to appear on the show. A performance of the song on The Arthur Haynes Show recorded on 7 February 1964 appears in the 1995 docu-series The Beatles Anthology and as part of the bonus material on the 2012 documentary film Crossfire Hurricane.
