The Rolling Stones share 1967 We Love You video

Virgin Radio

28 Aug 2022, 23:04

It's never been online before.

The Rolling Stones have shared their promo from their 1967 track ‘We Love You’ online for the very first time. The song peaked at number eight in Britain when it was first released.

The recording is notable for featuring a Mellotron part played by the late Brian Jones and backing vocals by John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles.

It was written in the wake of the arrests of singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards at the country home of the latter in Sussex that year. The song opens with the sounds of entry into jail, then a cell door clanging shut. The resulting sentences both received members famously prompted a stern editorial in The Times on July 1st, 1967, titled 'Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?'.

The video pokes fun at said sentencing, as well as that of Jaggers then girlfriend Marianne Faithfull.

Like the two versions of the ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’ video which were released this month, the 'We Love You' film has been remastered in 4K for its online release. In it, Richards plays the character of a judge, while Jagger and Faithfull participate in a mock recreation of their subsequent trial.

You can watch the new ‘We Love You’ visual, directed by Peter Whitehead, below.

But the band continue to have an eye on the future.

Richards recently told Matt Wilkinson for The Rolling Stones: 60th Anniversary Special show on Apple Music 1, that he “hopes” the band will have new material recorded by the end of the year.

This week Jagger paid tribute to drummer Charlie Watts on the first anniversary of his passing, writing: “I miss Charlie because he had a great sense of humour. And we also were, outside of the band… we used to hang out quite a lot and have interesting times. We loved sports: we’d go to football, we’d go to cricket games, and we had other interests apart from music.

He continued; “But of course I really miss Charlie so much.”