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"I Wanna Be Your Man" is a Lennon/McCartney-penned song that was
recorded separately by The Beatles and The Rolling
Stones. The Rolling Stones' version was released a few weeks
earlier.
The Rolling Stones'
version
The Rolling Stones' version, released as a single on 1
November 1963, was an early hit for them. Their rendition is a
frenetic electric rock/blues song featuring Brian Jones' distinctive slide guitar and Bill Wyman's driving bass
playing. It is one of the few Rolling Stones songs featuring
backing vocals by Jones. In the US, the song was released on 6
March 1964 as the B-side to "Not Fade Away".
According to various accounts, either the Rolling Stones'
manager/producer Andrew Loog Oldham or the Rolling
Stones themselves ran into Lennon and McCartney on the street as
the two were returning from an awards luncheon. Hearing that the
band was in need of material for a single, Lennon and McCartney
went to their session at De Lane Lea
Studio and finished off the song – whose verse they had already
been working on – in the corner of the room while the impressed
Rolling Stones watched. Lennon later commented, "That shows how
much importance we put on it. We weren't going to give them
anything great, right?"
In his review, Bruce Eder says, "the Stones went into the studio
and cut a slashing, savage rendition that betrayed not a trace of
Beatlesque cuteness, Brian Jones', Keith Richard's, and Bill
Wyman's amps were seemingly turned up to "11" while Mick Jagger turned the
lyrics—which sounded like bold yearnings in Ringo's voice—into what
could have been a prelude to sexual assault. That performance,
coupled with Jones' distinctive (and equally savage) slide guitar
work, said volumes about who the Stones were (versus the Beatles),
even as it marked them as British rock & roll's premiere
stylists, and put them out there on the cutting edge of what could
even get played. And it did get played, and did sell — as a cover
of a Lennon-McCartney song (released three weeks before the
Beatles' own version), at a moment when anything about rock &
roll from Liverpool would get a chance at a hearing, and anything
to do with the Beatles demanded extra attention, the song made it
to number 12 in the UK in the hands of the Rolling Stones."
Released only as a single, The Rolling Stones' rendition never
appeared on a studio album. In 1989, it was issued on Singles
Collection: The London Years.
Personnel
The
Beatles' version
The Beatles' version was sung by Ringo Starr and appeared on the group's
second UK album, With The Beatles, released 22
November 1963.
It was driven by a heavily tremoloed, open E-chord on a guitar
played through a Vox AC30
amplifier.
Personnel
- The Beatles' version personnel per Ian MacDonald
Notes
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