“2000 Light Years From Home” by The Rolling Stones

"2000 Light Years from Home" is the eeriest trip on Their Satanic Majesties Request, the Rolling Stones' 1967 plunge into psychedelia. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote it, and the band cut it at Olympic Studios that July and September, with the backing track answering to the working title "Toffee Apple". Brian Jones's Mellotron is the star, sending cold, wobbling waves across the whole thing, while Nicky Hopkins adds piano, Richards plays both guitar and bass, Charlie Watts drums, and Jagger sings lead and shakes the maracas. Glyn Johns engineered and the band produced themselves.

In America it went out as the flip of "She's a Rainbow", and it charted as a single in Germany. It was a regular on the Steel Wheels and Urban Jungle tours, and in 2013 the Stones brought it back at Glastonbury after 23 years away.

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