“Play With Fire” by The Rolling Stones

"Play With Fire" first turned up on the flip side of "The Last Time" and only later landed on the American edition of Out of Our Heads in 1965. The Stones cut it late one night in January 1965 at RCA Studios in Los Angeles, where they had been working with Phil Spector, and left for a tour of Australia the next day.

The credit reads Nanker Phelge, the name the band used for group compositions, yet Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are the only Stones on it: Richards playing the acoustic guitar that opens it, Jagger singing and shaking a tambourine run through an echo chamber. Spector himself handled the bass, and Jack Nitzsche added the harpsichord and tam-tams that give it its haunted, courtly air. Andrew Loog Oldham produced. The words trace a tangle with a high-society girl and sneer at her whole world.

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