The Last Time (Rolling Stones song)

"The Last Time"
1965 US single picture sleeve
Single by the Rolling Stones
B-side"Play with Fire"
Released26 February 1965 (UK)[1]
  • March 1965 (US)
Recorded11–12 January 1965
StudioRCA, Hollywood, California
GenreHard rock[2]
Length3:41
Label
Songwriter(s)Jagger/Richards[3]
Producer(s)Andrew Loog Oldham[3]
The Rolling Stones UK singles chronology
"Little Red Rooster"
(1964)
"The Last Time"
(1965)
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
(1965)
The Rolling Stones US singles chronology
"Heart of Stone"
(1964)
"The Last Time"
(1965)
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
(1965)
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"The Last Time" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones featuring the Andrew Oldham Orchestra, and the band's first original song released as an A-single in the UK.[3] Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and recorded at RCA Studios in Hollywood, California in January 1965, "The Last Time" was the band's third UK single to reach number one on the UK Singles Chart, spending three weeks at the top in March and early April 1965.[4] It reached number two in the Irish Singles Chart in March 1965, and was released on the US version of the album Out of Our Heads on 30 July 1965.

  1. ^ "1965 timeline".
  2. ^ Dean, Maury (6 June 2003). Rock N Roll Gold Rush: A Singles Un-Cyclopedia. Algora Publishing. p. 169. ISBN 9780875862279 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b c d Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. pp. 89–90. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
  4. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 176. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.