"Ruby Tuesday" was on Flowers, the Stone's softest and most
lyrical LP, and their nod to the laid-back, psychedelia that
was putting people like Donovan on the charts. It's as much
mod as rocker. (You can't get much more mod than the baroque
"Lady Jane.") But "Ruby Tuesday" was a simple song about lost
love (apparently a girl Keith Richard's had been involved
with). No hidden drug meaning, though someone probably went
on to name a type of acid after the song.
From http://www.recorderhomepage.net/torture5.html
> Ruby Tuesday was recorded in Olympic Studios in
November, 1966 and
> was released in January, 1967 on the B-side of Let's
Spend The
> Night Together. It spent twelve weeks in both the
U.K. and U.S.
> charts, reaching the number one spot in the U.S. In
her
> autobiography, Marianne Faithfull refers to Ruby
Tuesday as Jones'
> swan song and recalls the recording session when it
was conceived:
> "Brian . . . played a folkish, nursery rhyme melody
on the
> recorder. It was nothing more than a wispy tune, but
it caught
> Keith's attention . . . he had heard a riff and went
at it like a
> dog with a bone . . . it was really Brian and
Keith's song . . .
> I'd noticed that this song had taken on an almost
desperate
> significance for Brian. This collaboration between
Keith and him
> was to be the last, and perhaps he could sense that.
He knew it was
> one of the best things he'd ever done . . ."
(Faithful & Dalton,
> 1995).
Karen
_______________ Karen G. Anderson
karenand@mac.com
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