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Fact #120082

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Short story:

The Rolling Stones are recording in RCA Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA, working on The Last Time and Play With Fire.

Full article:

Keith Richards (guitarist, Rolling Stones) : Maybe sixty to seventy per cent of our output was recorded in the States during 1964, and by 1965 just about everything was done there.

Mick Jagger (vocalist, Rolling Stones) : It (Stones' music at the time) is obviously soul influenced, which was the goal at the time. Otis Redding and Solomon Burke. Play With Fire sounds amazing - when I heard it last. I mean, it's a very in-your-face kind of sound and very clearly done. You can hear all the vocal stuff on it. And I'm playing the tambourines, the vocal line. You know, it's very pretty.

No one had really done that (written about British society). The Beatles, to some extent, were doing it, though they weren't really doing it at this period as much as they did later. The Kinks were kind of doing it - Ray Davies and I were in the same boat. One of the first things that, in that very naive way, you attempted to deal with were the kind of funny, swinging, London-type things that were going on.

I didn't even realize I was doing it at the time. But it became an interesting source for material. Songwriting had only dealt in cliches and borrowed stuff, you know, from previous records or ideas. "I Want To Hold Your Hand," things like that. But these songs were really more from experience and then embroidered to make them more interesting.