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εκεί με τα αγριοράδικα, τις πικραλίδες, επιβάλλεται να βάλω και την άλλη πλευρά του Dandelion (το φλίπσαϊντ ελληνιστί
, για να πάρουμε μια γεύση (στοουνικής, όχι αποκλειστικά τζαγκερικής) πικρίας και ελάχιστα συγκαλυμμένης αγριάδας. Μια ματιά στo βλέμμα του Τζάγκερ αρκεί.
We love you (Jagger/Richards) - Rolling Stones
We don't care if you only love "we"
We don't care if you only love "we"
We love you. We love you, and we hope that you will love "we" too
We love "they". We love "they", and we want you to love "they" too
Ah...
We don't care if you hound "we" and love is all around "we"
Love can't get our minds off
We love you, we love you
You will never win "we"
Your uniforms don't fit "we"
We forget the place we're in
'Cause we love you
We love you. Of course, we do
I love you. I love you
And I hope that you won't prove wrong too
We love you. We do. We love you. We do.
Ah.....Ah......Ah.....
Recorded on June 12, during the sessions for Their Satanic Majesties Request, the song is a droning Moroccan influenced anthem of defiance. Outwardly, it was a message from the band to its fans, expressing appreciation for support in the wake of their recent drug busts. It was also an ironic, tongue in cheek slap in the faces of the police harassing them and the Stones' true feelings about it, putting on a cooperative and friendly face while inside they were seething with anger and indignation (as is represented by Brian Jones' unforgettably surreal Mellotron in the background). "We Love You" is a psychedelic collage of jail sounds, Nicky Hopkins' foreboding piano riff, and otherworldly tape-delayed vocal effects, featuring a visiting Lennon and McCartney on high harmonies. The song's lyric, seemingly an echo of the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" (which Lennon, in his famous 1970 Rolling Stone interview, insisted it was) broadcast from earlier in the summer, on closer examination espouses a strong anti-establishment posture.
The promotional film for the single was directed by Peter Whitehead. It included footage from recording sessions along with segments that re-enacted the 1895 trial of Oscar Wilde, with Jagger, Richards and Marianne Faithfull respectively portraying Wilde, a judge and Lord Alfred Douglas. Footage of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, with his eyes drooping and unfocused, also appears.
Και μια εικόνα χαρακτηριστική εκείνης της οργιώδους εποχής:
Allen Ginsberg was in London for a pro-marijuana rally in Hyde Park. He met Jagger at McCartney's house, and Jagger invited the Beat poet to that night's session with Paul and John to record uncredited backing vocals for "We Love You". Ginsberg, waving his Shiva beads and a Tibetan oracle ring, conducted the singers from the other side of the studio glass to the tempo of the stuttering Mellotron track. "They looked like little angels," he wrote later of the Stones and the Beatles, "like Botticelli Graces singing together for the first time."
Well, it just goes to show
Things are not what they seem...
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