Their friendly relationship even progressed to the point where a member of the Stones featured on one of the Fab Four’s tracks, You Know My Name (Look Up The Number).
The track was released as a B-side on their hit song Let It Be on March 6, 1970. The song has one lyric, its title, and continues chanting the words through an increasingly chaotic set of sounds.
John Lennon spoke about how he first came up with the idea long before he began recording it.
Lennon said: "That was a piece of unfinished music that I turned into a comedy record with Paul.
“I was waiting for him in his house, and I saw the phone book was on the piano with you know the name, look up the number. That was like a logo, and I just changed it.
“It was going to be a Four Tops kind of song - the chord changes are like that – but it never developed, and we made a joke of it.”
In a final reveal, he added: “Brian Jones is playing saxophone on it.” (Jones played alto saxophone)
Archival footage of The Rolling Stones performing their 1968 track ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ live in concert for the first time has been uploaded online.
Landing on US label ABCKO’s YouTube channel earlier this week, the video is a previously unreleased cut from the band’s 1996 Rock and Roll Circus concert film that didn’t make it into the final version.
The footage features the outfit’s original lineup as it was when the performance was initially filmed in 1968, comprising Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Ian Stewart and Brian Jones.
Recently Michael Joseph,the photographer of Berggars Banquet opens to the memories and the background of the famous photo shoot.
When I told the caretaker of the house the Stones were a bit wild, he asked if there would be any naked ladies – because they charged £10 extra for that- excerpt from the Guardian, to read the full article read here
There are two shooting that in 1968 saw Mick Jagger and members being immortalized by photographer Michael Joseph in the villa of Sarum Chase Castle, in the northern area of London, once belonged to the Tudor, and in front of the ruins of the Swarkestone Hall Pavilion.
”The Stones arrived punctually. They were impressed with my lighting setup, and this fantastic, beautiful room. I was already there, talking through a megaphone to the goats, dogs and all the other animals we had for the shoot, getting them to understand what it was all about. I was good with animals and they behaved very nicely. Most of the feast on the table was prop food, but luckily, I’d put down a bowl of real cherries, and the goat was munching away on those. There were some cats knocking around the set, too, and they didn’t seem to be put off by 20,000 joules of light flashing away.
I put Keith Richards in the centre of the photo because he was the best-looking and the youngest. Bill Wyman, not so good-looking, so we put him further back. On the right, Brian Jones was very happy playing with a labrador. Charlie Watts was chatting up the stuffed monkey that’s on the table. Mick was happy to be centre-stage, standing on the table, cuddling some of the animals. There were other shots from this session where he’s holding a baby eagle, but then he got bored with that. - keep reading here
