Ruby Tuesday (song)

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Ruby Tuesday is a Rolling Stones song recorded in 1966 and released in January 1967. It was a number one hit in Germany and the United States and reached number three on the UK charts. The song came in at number 303 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Times list for 2004.

background

According to an interview with Rolling Stone magazine , Keith Richards wrote the love song in a hotel in 1966 about a groupie he knew. In 2010 he stated in his autobiography that he was referring to Linda Keith , his girlfriend at the time. There is disagreement about the authorship of the piece. According to Bill Wyman , the entire text is by Keith Richards, and according to Marianne Faithfull , an earlier version was by Brian Jones . The biographer Victor Bockris wrote that the text and the structure of the piece came from Richards, who finished it with Jones in the studio.

In Ruby Tuesday, a bowed double bass can be heard very often in places . Since none of the band's musicians could play the instrument, the guitarist and bassist shared roles: Keith Richards bowed while Bill Wyman pressed the strings.

The piece was released on two consecutive albums, the US versions of Between the Buttons and Flowers . Live versions appeared on the album Flashpoint in 1991 and on the 2013 album Sweet Summer Sun: Hyde Park Live 2013 .

The American restaurant chain of the same name was named after the song.

reception

Richie Unterberger wrote about the piece on Allmusic :

Ruby Tuesday is a good candidate for the most melodic Mick Jagger -Keith Richards composition ever, and it was a number one hit in early 1967. This is one of the few Rolling Stones songs that could be fairly said to be as melodic as any of the best Lennon-McCartney compositions.

“ Ruby Tuesday is a good candidate for the most melodic Mick Jagger / Keith Richards composition of all time and was a number one hit in early 1967. This is one of the few Rolling Stones songs that could rightly be described as as melodic as one of the best Lennon McCartney compositions. "

Musician of the original recording

Cover versions

The song has been covered by many musicians, including Nazareth , Julian Lennon , Weird Al Yankovic , Rod Stewart , Marianne Faithfull , The Corrs , Gotthard and the Scorpions . The best-known version comes from the singer Melanie , who released the song in 1970 on her album Candles in the Rain and entered the top ten of the British charts with her “idiosyncratic interpretation”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Keith Richards and James Fox: Life . Translated from the English by Willi Winkler, Wolfgang Müller and Ulrich Thiele. Heyne Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-16303-4 .
  2. ↑ Victor Bockris: Keith Richards . Heyne Verlag, 1993. ISBN 3-453-07125-5 .
  3. ↑ David Segal: At Ruby Tuesday, Casual Dining Dons a Blazer. In: nytimes.com. November 7, 2009, accessed February 16, 2013 .
  4. ^ Richie Unterberger: Ruby Tuesday. In: allmusic.com. Retrieved February 16, 2013 .
  5. ^ Wieland Harms: The Unplugged Guitar Book. 20 of the most beautiful songs for acoustic guitar. Gerig Music, ISBN 3-87252-249-3 , pp. 20-23 ( Melanie, Ruby Tuesday ).