The No1 song in the US and the UK on this day, November 10th 1965, was Get Off My Cloud by the Rolling Stones from the album Decembers Children (And Everybodys). This followed Satisfaction as The Stones second #1 hit in the US. Keith Richards said of the song: Get Off My Cloud was basically a response to people knocking on our door asking us for the follow up to Satisfaction, which was such an enormous hit worldwide. This, to us, was mind-blowing. I mean not only was it a No1 record but, boom! We thought, At last. We can sit back and maybe think about events. Suddenly theres the knock at the door and of course what came out of that was Get Off Of My Cloud. Because within 3 weeks, in those days hey, they want another single. And we werent quite ready for that. So it was our response to the knock at the door: Get off of my cloud. And Im surprised that it did so well. I mean it has a certain charm but I really remember it as a knee-jerk reaction. And it came out better than I thought. Mick Jagger (1995): That was Keiths melody and my lyrics. Its a stop-bugging-me, post-teenage-alienation song. The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the 60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress. The B-side of this single was Im Free, which remained obscure until it was revived by The Soup Dragons in 1990. Heres the Rolling Stones performing Get Off my cloud in 1966..... Enjoy!
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:29:53 +0000
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