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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.
"2000 Light Years from Home" "On with the Show" " In Another Land " is a song by the Rolling Stones , released in December 1967 as the first single from the album Their Satanic Majesties Request , and credited solely to Bill Wyman .
More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) is a compilation album by the Rolling Stones released in December 1972 on London Records.The album was a follow-up to the successful Hot Rocks 1964–1971.
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 ...
Each year when the clock strikes midnight on New Year's, people around the world sing one song in unison. "Auld Lang Syne" has long been a hit at New Year's parties in the U.S. as people join ...
"Highwire" is an anti-war song by English rock band the Rolling Stones, featured on their 1991 live album, Flashpoint. [3] Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the song is one of the rare examples of the Stones taking on political issues—in this case, the fall-out from Persian Gulf War.
The lyrics deal with a pair of lovers, one of whom has died though the other still feels love for her. A lantern is a metaphor for what unites the two between life and death, and also the light that would enable him to join her when he dies.