Mother's Little Helper
Mother's Little Helper is a Rolling Stones song .
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The song was composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and set to music by the Rolling Stones. The recording took place December 3-8 , 1965 at the RCA Studios in Hollywood, California. It is on the British edition of the album Aftermath from April 1966. In the US, the song was released on July 2, 1966 as a single. The cast was:
- Lead vocals: Mick Jagger
- Acoustic Guitar, Background Vocals: Keith Richards
- Vox Mando Guitar, 12-string guitar: Brian Jones
- Bass: Bill Wyman
- Drums: Charlie Watts
Mother's Little Helper ( "mother's little helpers") was written in reference to the drug Valium , a benzodiazepine - tranquilizers , which was developed in the 1960s and since then, successfully marketed despite the significant dependence potential. The allusion relates not only to the sung about “mother” ( “And though she's not really ill / There's a little yellow pill / She goes running for the shelter / Of her 'mother's little helper'” ), but also to the mentality of the 1960s.
“Mother's Little Helper” is still used today to describe barbiturates and tranquilizers .
The song has been covered several times: On the album Uncertain Pleasures from 1990, the song appeared in the version of Mary Coughlan . The Berlin band Stereo Total released a remake of the song on their album Discotheque in 2006 . The American singer Liz Phair contributed her version of the song for the soundtrack for Desperate Housewives .