![]() ![]() We had the sitars, we thought we’d try them out in the studio. They’re very brittle and you have to be careful how you handle them. Sitars are made out of watermelons or pumpkins or something smashed so they go hard. They make sitars and all sorts of Indian stuff. Keith Richards: “We were in Fiji for about three days. Jones made good television by balancing the instrument on his lap during appearances. On this track, Stones guitarist Brian Jones played the sitar, which was introduced to pop music by The Beatles on their 1965 song Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown). This new more upbeat rhythm was then used in the recording as a counterpoint to the morbid lyrics. Co-manager Eric Easton (who had been an organist), and Charlie Watts joined in and improvised a double-time drum pattern, echoing the rhythm heard in some Middle Eastern dances. When Bill Wyman began fooling around on the organ during the session doing a takeoff of their original as a spoof of music played at Jewish weddings. The Rolling Stones wrote this as a much slower, conventional soul song. “If I look hard enough into the setting sun, my love will laugh with me before the morning comes” – This refers to her in Heaven. ![]() “I could not foresee this thing happening to you” – It was an unexpected and sudden death. He talks about his heart being black because of his loss. “With flowers and my love both never to come back” – The flowers from the funeral and her in the hearse. “I see a line of cars and they’re all painted black” – The hearse and limos. The song seems to be about a lover who died: It’s not an original thought by any means. When asked at the time why he wrote a song about death, Mick Jagger replied: “I don’t know. There was no specific inspiration for the lyrics. This is written from the viewpoint of a person who is depressed he wants everything to turn black to match his mood. Every time this is used in a commercial or TV show, Klein’s estate (he died in 2009) gets paid. With Klein controlling their money, The Stones signed over the publishing rights to all the songs they wrote up to 1969. In 1965, The Stones hired him and signed a deal they would later regret. The Stones former manager Allen Klein owned the publishing rights to this song. The song peaked at #1 in the Billboard 100, #1 in Canada, #1 in the UK, and #4 in New Zealand in 1966. After Brian left they played mostly blues-rock along with a little reggae-influenced music later on. Along with some blues they ventured into pop, rock, and a bit of psychedelia. The Stones were more adventurous in the mid-sixties. Whatever song they wrote, Jones would play a different instrument to color the song. Brian Jones plays a sitar on this record. It’s menacing with a dash of eastern influence. Learn more at Patreon.Of all of the Rolling Stones riffs…this one is one of the most memorable. There are a bunch of exclusive perks only for patrons: playlists, newsletters, downloads, discussions, polls - hell, tell us what song you would like to hear covered and we will make it happen. Cover Me is now on Patreon! If you love cover songs, we hope you will consider supporting us there with a small monthly subscription. More from Ciara can be found on her website and on Facebook. However, once I listened to the song, I knew that I was listening to one of my favorite covers of the year. It was never on my radar to cover it, but when the opportunity came along, I was very thrilled.” Not that I have anything against Ciara, but because it just seemed like an odd choice.Įven she even admitted to Rolling Stone that it was a surprise to be asked to do this song. I assumed that “Ciara Covers The Stones” was bound to be an inevitable train wreck. With it comes a cover of the Rolling Stones’ classic, “Paint It, Black” by Ciara. Vin Diesel’s latest movie, The Last Witch Hunter, hit theaters last weekend. ![]()
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