– Keith Richards from his autobiography “Life” ![]() But that song defined us in a way, and it went to number one in the UK. With those earlier songs, we would have been chased out the room. That was when it really clicked, with that song, when Mick and I felt confident enough to actually lay it in front of Brian and Charlie and Ian Stewart, especially, arbiter of events. “You don’t try very hard to please me.” Not the usual serenade to the unattainable object of desire. It had a Stones twist to it, one that maybe couldn’t have been written earlier-a song about going on the road and dumping some chick. The song has the first recognizable Stones riff or guitar figure on it the chorus is from the Staple Singers’ version, “This May Be the Last Time.” We could work this hook now we had to find the verse. And then finally we came up with “The Last Time” and looked at each other and said, let’s try this with the boys. We kept coming up with these ballads, nothing to do with what we were doing. If I’d gone to the Rolling Stones with “As Tears Go By,” it would have been ‘Get out and don’t come back.’ Mick and I were trying to hone it down. ![]() It took us eight, nine months before we came up with “The Last Time,” which is the first one that we felt we could give to the rest of the guys without being sent out of the room. ![]() “Mick and I knew by now that really our job was to write songs for the Stones. Their musical collaboration has produced the majority of the Rolling Stones catalog and Jagger/Richards songs have been recorded by artists across all genres. The songwriting partnership of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards is one of the most successful songwriting partnerships in history which still continues today.
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