

Before Brian Jones became, as Lennon noted, “one of them guys that you dreaded he’d come on the phone,” Jones was a close friend of John and Paul and appeared on two Beatle songs. The Stones, more often than not founder Brian Jones, would musically reciprocate. ‘We Love You’…that’s ‘All You Need Is Love.” The song was recorded during the Stones’ Their Satanic Majesties Request album sessions a song and LP Lennon would deride: “Satanic Majesties is Pepper. Lennon and McCartney pitched in via their vocal cords on the Stones’ 1967 “We Love You” single. The collaboration between members of the two bands didn’t end on that day.

Related: “The Rolling Stones Aren’t Just Bluesy, They’re Glam” They just went in the corner and wrote it and came back!’ Right in front of their eyes we did it.” We came back and that’s how Mick and Keith got inspired to write, because, ‘Jesus, look at that. We sort of played it roughly to them and they said, ‘Yeah, OK, that’s our style.’ So Paul and I just went off in the corner of the room and finished the song off while they were all still there talking. Paul just had this bit and we needed another verse or something. “Mick and Keith had heard that we had an unfinished song. Lennon recalled the birth of the song, as well as the songwriting powerhouse that became Jagger-Richards: Jagger and Richards later credited Lennon and McCartney in inspiring the two Stones to compose their own material instead of being virtually an R&B cover band. We weren’t going to give them anything great, right?” That shows how much importance we put on it. The only two versions of the song were Ringo and the Rolling Stones. John, no doubt wanting to keep the Stones’ firmly in their place (behind the Beatles on the charts), later commented, “It was a throwaway. How about Ringo’s song? You could do it as a single.’” Got any songs?’ And we said, ‘Aaah, yes, sure, we got one. So there were the four of us sitting in a taxi and I think Mick said, ‘Hey, we’re recording. “So they shouted from the taxi and we yelled, ‘Hey, hey, give us a lift, give us a lift,’ and we bummed a lift off them. John and Paul were out for a stroll in London on September 10, 1963, when Jagger and Richards noticed them from inside of a taxicab. The first “cross-pollination” seed was sown when Lennon-McCartney penned the Stones’ second hit, “I Wanna Be Your Man.” How the Stones got the song is a serendipitous story in rock ‘n’ roll lore. In reality, the two bands were “rivals” only on the charts - and occasionally mixed it up with each other on a mixing board. Once upon a long time ago, the media and music fans considered the Beatles and the Stones heated rivals.
