“Just Another Night” by Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger stepped out on his own in 1985 with "Just Another Night", the song that led off She's the Boss, his debut solo album, as its first single. He wrote it by himself and sings it like a man with something to prove. The band behind him is stacked: Sly Dunbar on drums and Robbie Shakespeare on bass hold down the rhythm, Jeff Beck plays guitar, acoustic included, Bill Laswell and Ronald Magness add synthesizers, and Anton Fier's tom-toms and Aïyb Dieng's shekere pile on extra percussion.

It went to 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 32 in the UK, spent two weeks at the top of Billboard's Top Rock Tracks chart, and cracked the top 10 in Sweden, Belgium, New Zealand and the Netherlands. Julien Temple directed the video, which casts Rae Dawn Chong as the object of Jagger's affections.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.