![]() "That's a wonderful song," Mick Jagger told Jann Wenner in 1995. Richards explained that the lyrics are about Linda Keith, his girlfriend in the mid-1960s: Brian Jones plays a countermelody on an alto recorder, while the double bass was played jointly by bassist Bill Wyman and guitarist Keith Richards Wyman did the fingerings while Richards bowed the instrument. The song was produced by Andrew Loog Oldham. The Rolling Stones recorded "Ruby Tuesday" around November 1966 at Olympic Studios, during the sessions for their album Between the Buttons. Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song number 310 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song was included in the American version of Between the Buttons (in the UK, singles were often excluded from studio albums). The song became the band's fourth number-one hit in the United States and reached number three in the United Kingdom as a double A-side with " Let's Spend the Night Together". " Ruby Tuesday" is a song recorded by the Rolling Stones in 1966, released in January 1967. " Ruby Tuesday" / " Let's Spend the Night Together" The singer awakes, rues the fact that he could not draw her into his world, and reluctantly and nostalgically consigns memories of her to the world of ‘what might have been.’Ī beautiful song, by any measure." Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" In this case, Ruby was a wraith who drew the singer into a world that offered escape but no deliverance. ![]() All three were songs for and by a generation that, although it did not always know it, was hungry for meaning yet wary of commitment, identifying with the present yet still expressing itself in terms from the past. It is not often that a cover comes across more powerfully than the original, but Melanie's throaty rendition is the default version that will always run through my mind.)Īs to the song, it falls between the bookends of Back Street Girl (musically) and Maggie May (lyrically). (And the first time I heard Melanie's rendition I felt haunted. Only the original lyricists know for certain what the song means.įor my part, the first time I heard Ruby Tuesday, shortly after it was released, I was mesmerized. That is the very essence of life, our purpose, of Ruby Tuesday. Then why do we humans even care? So this talks about our dreams and how we shouldn't let them slip. The songs explains how Ruby Tuesday does what she wants, when she wants. ![]() Ruby Tuesday thus can't be chained to a life where nothing's gained or lost. The reason why she is mysterious and ever changing, is because she IS humanity's purpose. When the sun is bright, or in the darkest night, she exists everywhere and nowhere - anywhere we humans want her to be. That is what Ruby Tuesday is, she changes everyday. The Hindu Philosophy of absolute truth says that things are what you believe them to be. Be it Happiness, God, Chance, Faith.in essence - Absolute Truth. Ruby Tuesday is the very essence of life. John Lennon's "Across the Universe", almost all of George Harrison's songs had a lot of philosophy. The tine it was written was when the Western Civilization had a sudden influx of Eastern Philosophical ideas.
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