“Time Waits for No One” by The Rolling Stones

"Time Waits for No One" was the first thing the Rolling Stones cut for It's Only Rock 'n Roll in 1974, and it sounds nothing like the songs they're best known for: slow, hypnotic and shot through with Latin flavor. Keith Richards starts it with a riff that keeps circling, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman ease jazz rhythms under it, Ray Cooper's percussion knocks away like a clock, and Nicky Hopkins spills piano runs across the top while Mick Jagger ponders how fast life slips by.

But this is Mick Taylor's showcase. He adds early synthesizer and then takes an extended guitar solo that he traced back to a trip to Brazil after the band's 1973 European tour. The Glimmer Twins produced and Keith Harwood mixed. The Stones have never played it live, and when it landed on Sucking in the Seventies, Taylor's solo was cut short.

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