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"Dandelion" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and first released as a B-side to "We Love You" in August 1967. As recently as October 2023 [ 6 ] Keith Richards confirmed that John Lennon and Paul McCartney sing backing vocals. [ 7 ]
The lyrics to the song are notably dark, and feature the line, "I'll be in my basement room, with a needle and a spoon", a reference to injecting heroin. "Dead Flowers" was written during the period when the Stones were stepping into country music territory, when Richards's friendship with Gram Parsons was influencing his songwriting. Jagger ...
Jagger (left) and Richards (right) in June 1972 at Winterland in San Francisco. Jagger–Richards (spelled Jagger–Richard from 1963 to 1978) [nb 1] is the songwriting partnership between English musicians Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (both born 1943), founder members of rock band the Rolling Stones.
Van Zandt's Roadsongs album version of The Rolling Stones' "Dead Flowers" was used during the final scene of the Coen Brothers' 1998 film The Big Lebowski. The song was included on the movie's soundtrack. [80]
"We Love You" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones that was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Their first new release of the summer of 1967, it was first released as a single on 18 August in the United Kingdom, with "Dandelion" as the B-side. The song peaked at number eight in Britain and number 50 in the United States ...
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Van Zandt had also been performing Peter La Farge’s "Ira Hayes" and the Rolling Stones classic "Dead Flowers" for many years. Van Zandt's affinity for traditional folk music is represented on Roadsongs as well, with the singer performing "Texas River Song", "Wabash Cannonball" and "Cocaine Blues".
The British version was again made available to the public as part of a limited edition vinyl box set, titled The Rolling Stones 1964–1969, in November 2010. It was also re-released digitally at the same time. It was released in 2011 by Universal Music Enterprises in a Japanese only SHM-SACD version. For Record Store Day 2019 ABKCO Records ...