Something Happened to Me Yesterday
"Something Happened to Me Yesterday" | |
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Song by the Rolling Stones | |
from the album Between the Buttons | |
Released | 20 January 1967 (UK) 11 February 1967 (US) |
Recorded | 3–11 August 1966 |
Genre | Rock, music hall |
Length | 4:55 |
Label | Decca/ABKCO (UK) London/ABKCO (US) |
Songwriter(s) | Mick Jagger, Keith Richards |
Producer(s) | Andrew Loog Oldham |
Between the Buttons track listing | |
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12 tracks |
"Something Happened to Me Yesterday" is the closing track of the Rolling Stones' 1967 album Between the Buttons.
Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and recorded in August and November 1966, "Something Happened to Me Yesterday" is the first officially released Rolling Stones track to feature Richards on separate lead vocal. Jagger sings the verses, while Richards sings the chorus. Richards plays electric and acoustic guitars; Charlie Watts is on drums and Bill Wyman on bass; Brian Jones whistles and plays trumpet, trombone and tuba;[1][2] Jack Nitzsche plays piano; and the Mike Leander Orchestra performs the brass section.
At the time of the song's release, Jagger said: "I leave it to the individual imagination as to what happened."[3] Matthew Greenwald calls it "one [of] the most accurate songs about LSD".[4]
The song ends with a spoken passage: "Well thank you very much and now I think it's time for us all to go. So from all of us to all of you, not forgetting the boys in the band and our producer Reg Thorpe, we'd like to say God bless. So if you're out tonight, don't forget, if you're on your bike, wear white. Evening all."[5] Jagger has said (plainly facetiously) that this passage is "something I remember hearing on the BBC as the bombs dropped".[3] However, this sort of homily was typically rendered at the end of an episode of the early police procedural Dixon of Dock Green by PC Dixon, an old school bobby.
Personnel[]
- Mick Jagger – lead vocals (verses)
- Keith Richards – lead vocals (chorus), backing vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
- Brian Jones – trumpet, tuba, trombone,[1][2] whistles
- Bill Wyman – bass guitar
- Charlie Watts – drums
- Jack Nitzsche – piano
- Mike Leander Orchestra – clarinet, tuba, violin[6]
External links[]
Notes[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b It's Only Rock n Roll - James Karnbach
- ^ Jump up to: a b Stones Complete Recording Sessions - Martin Elliott
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Something Happened to Me Yesterday". timeisonourside.com. Retrieved 2006-07-28.
- ^ Greenwald, Matthew. Something Happened to Me Yesterday at AllMusic. Retrieved 28 July 2007.
- ^ Gilliland, John (1969). "The Rubberization of Soul: The great pop music renaissance" (audio). Pop Chronicles. University of North Texas Libraries. Track 5.
- ^ Stone Alone - Bill Wyman
- ^ Beat Instrumental December 1966
- The Rolling Stones songs
- 1967 songs
- Songs written by Jagger/Richards
- Song recordings produced by Andrew Loog Oldham
- Songs about drugs
- British psychedelic rock songs