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"2000 Light Years from Home" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on their 1967 album Their Satanic Majesties Request. [4] Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards , it also appeared as the B-side to the American single " She's a Rainbow ", and charted as a single in Germany.
[37] There are only two songs from the album which the Stones performed live, "2000 Light Years from Home" (1989–90 world tour, 2013 Glastonbury Festival), and "She's a Rainbow" (1997–98 Bridges to Babylon Tour and occasionally on concert tours in the late 2010s.) [38] Satanic Majesties has been reassessed positively by critics.
Retrospectively, Light Years has been recognised as one of Minogue's strongest releases. The album won the ARIA Award for Best Female Artist and Best Pop Release at the 2001 ceremonies. Light Years peaked in the top position on the Australian Albums Chart, Minogue's first number-one album in her
The Singles 1971–2006 is a box set compilation of singles by The Rolling Stones spanning the years ... "2000 Light Years from Home" (Live) – 3:29 "Highwire" (Full ...
The album contained a cover of The Rolling Stones' song "2000 Light Years from Home", also edited in 1984 as a 12" single and as a limited-edition double single. The band recorded a single with producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman , "Say It Again", at the behest of their record company.
According to Bruce Eder of AllMusic, the album resulted from "three coinciding events – the need to acknowledge the death of the band’s founder Brian Jones (whose epitaph graces the inside cover) in July 1969; the need to get 'Honky Tonk Women,' then a huge hit single, onto an LP; and to fill the ten-month gap since the release of Beggars Banquet and get an album with built-in appeal into ...
The single was released on 2 December 1967. [1] Jon Landau of Rolling Stone praised the performance of Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, and Keith Richards on the song, calling Richards's guitar work the best on the album.
Alabama: 2000 Light Years from Home, from 1969, was Wim Wenders’ first film shot on 35mm and also his first collaboration with cinematographer Robbie Müller, who he continues to work with. The film is a precursor to what would follow in Wenders’ features – stark landscapes and rooms, long takes, a meandering pace, lots of driving ...