Who was ‘Ruby Tuesday’ and which great band sang the song about her?
It's a great song from yesteryear.
RUBY Tuesday is a song recorded by the Rolling Stones in 1966, released in January 1967.
The song, coupled with ‘Let’s Spend the Night Together’, was a number-one hit in the United States and reached number three in the United Kingdom.
The song title was the source of the restaurant chain of the same name.
Multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones played recorder, and the double bass was played jointly by bassist Bill Wyman (pressing the strings against the fingerboard) and Keith Richards (bowing the strings).
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According to Keith Richards in a 1971 Rolling Stone interview, he wrote the song in a Los Angeles hotel room in early 1966 about a groupie he knew.
He has also stated that it was about Linda Keith, his girlfriend in the mid-1960s.
The song’s lyrics concern an apparently free-spirited woman, with Mick Jagger singing:
“Who could hang a name on you?
When you change with every new day
Still I’m gonna miss you.”
The story goes, in Richards’s autobiography, that Linda Keith left Richards for Jimi Hendrix, and had gotten involved with drugs.
From Richards’s autobiography, Life, the song was written about his girlfriend Linda Keith.
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