"Something Happened to Me Yesterday" is the closing track of
the Rolling Stones' 1967 album ''
Between the Buttons''.
Written by
Mick Jagger and
Keith Richards and recorded in August and November 1966, "Something Happened to Me Yesterday" is the first officially released Rolling Stones track to feature Richards on separate lead vocal. Jagger sings the verses, while Richards sings the chorus. Richards plays electric and acoustic guitars;
Charlie Watts
Charles Robert Watts (2 June 1941 – 24 August 2021) was an English musician who achieved international fame as the drummer of the Rolling Stones from 1963 until his death in 2021.
Originally trained as a graphic artist, Watts developed an i ...
is on drums and
Bill Wyman
William George Wyman (né Perks; born 24 October 1936) is an English musician who achieved international fame as the bassist for the Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1993. In 1989, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member ...
on bass;
Brian Jones whistles and plays trumpet, trombone and tuba;
[It's Only Rock n Roll - James Karnbach][Stones Complete Recording Sessions - Martin Elliott] Jack Nitzsche plays piano; and the
Mike Leander Orchestra performs the brass section.
At the time of the song's release, Jagger said: "I leave it to the individual imagination as to what happened."
Matthew Greenwald calls it "one
fthe most accurate songs about
LSD".
The song ends with a spoken passage by Jagger: "Well, thank you very much, and now I think it's time for us all to go. So, from all of us to all of you, not forgetting the boys in the band and our producer Reg Thorpe, we'd like to say 'God bless.' So, if you're out tonight, don't forget: if you're on your bike, wear white. Evening, all."
Jagger has said (plainly facetiously) that this passage is "something I remember hearing on the BBC as the bombs dropped".
[ However, this sort of homily was typically rendered at the end of an episode of the early police procedural '' Dixon of Dock Green'' by PC Dixon, an old school bobby.
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Personnel
According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon:
The Rolling Stones
* Mick Jagger vocals (verses)
* Keith Richards vocals (chorus), acoustic guitar, electric rhythm guitar, bass
* Brian Jones saxophone
*Bill Wyman
William George Wyman (né Perks; born 24 October 1936) is an English musician who achieved international fame as the bassist for the Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1993. In 1989, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member ...
bass guitar
*Charlie Watts
Charles Robert Watts (2 June 1941 – 24 August 2021) was an English musician who achieved international fame as the drummer of the Rolling Stones from 1963 until his death in 2021.
Originally trained as a graphic artist, Watts developed an i ...
drums
Additional musicians
* Jack Nitzsche piano
*Unidentified session musicians tuba, clarinet
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Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...
, trumpet, trombone, violin
Notes
References
Sources
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External links
Complete official lyrics
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The Rolling Stones songs
1967 songs
Songs written by Jagger–Richards
Song recordings produced by Andrew Loog Oldham
Songs about drugs
British psychedelic rock songs