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"Ruby Tuesday"
7" single cover
Single by The Rolling Stones from the album Between the Buttons
A-side	"Let's Spend the Night Together"
Released	January 13, 1967 (UK)
Recorded	November 8 - December 13, 1966
Genre	Rock
Length	3:32
Label	Decca/ABKCO
Writer	Jagger/Richards (on the record)
Producer	Andrew Loog Oldham
The Rolling Stones singles chronology
"Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" (1966) "Ruby Tuesday/Let's Spend the Night Together" (1967) "We Love You/Dandelion" (1967)

"Ruby Tuesday"
Single by Rolling Stones from the album Flashpoint
Released	May 24, 1991
Format	7" vinyl, cassette
Genre	Rock
Length	3 min 34 s
Label	Rolling Stones/Virgin
Writer	Jagger/Richards
Producer	Chris Kimsey and The Glimmer Twins
Rolling Stones singles chronology
"Highwire" (1991) "Ruby Tuesday" (1991) "Love Is Strong" (1994)

"Ruby Tuesday" is a song recorded by The Rolling Stones in 1966, written by Keith Richards and probably Brian Jones, but credited to Jagger/Richards.^{[citation needed]}

The song was a number-one hit in the U.S. and a number three in the UK.

Guitarist Jones plays recorder, and the double bass is played by both bassist Bill Wyman (pressing the strings against the fingerboard) and Keith Richards (bowing the strings). The piano is played by Jack Nitzsche, a producer, arranger and songwriter known for his work with producer Phil Spector.

According to Keith Richards in a 1971 Rolling Stone interview he wrote the song in a Los Angeles hotel room in early 1966. The topic according to Richards was a groupie he knew. The song's lyrics concern an apparently free-spirited woman, with Jagger singing, "Who could hang a name on you?/When you change with every new day/Still I'm gonna miss you."

"That's a wonderful song," Mick Jagger told Jann Wenner in 1995. "It's just a nice melody, really. And a lovely lyric. Neither of which I wrote, but I always enjoy singing it." Bill Wyman also claims in Rolling with the Stones book that the song was completely written by Keith Richards.

However, Marianne Faithfull claims in her biography that the song was written by Brian Jones, and that Keith Richards only added minor parts. To date, Faithfull remains the only source for this claim.

All post-2002 reissues of "Ruby Tuesday" on CD (comprising all versions on the ABKCO remastered CDs) are missing a vocal overdub in the chorus. The reason for this change has never been officially addressed.

Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song #303 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song title was the source of the restaurant chain of the same name.

A performance was captured during the Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour and released on the 1991 live album Flashpoint.

• "Ruby Tuesday" is one of the signature songs of Marianne Faithfull, a one-time paramour of Jagger's.
• It is one of The Corrs favourite covers, and they performed it with Ronnie Wood for their 2002 VH1 Live in Dublin album and also included it on their 2006 Dreams Collection.
• A notable cover version of "Ruby Tuesday" was recorded by Melanie Safka which was a U.K Top Ten hit in 1970.
• Ohio-based band Over The Rhine covered the song at some of their earliest gigs in the early 90's; a version was released on their Amateur Shortwave Radio album in 1999.
• Emiliana Torrini
• Kenny Rogers
• Rod Stewart
• Franco Battiato (used in the soundtrack of Children of Men).
• Don Williams covered the song while in his band the Pozo Seco Singers.
• German singer Nena repeatedly sings the song live; it's available on her live DVD but to date has never been officially released.
• A snippet of the song is often sung by Bono along with "Sympathy for the Devil" during performances of "Bad" at U2 concerts, most notably performed at Live Aid in London. Another example of this is in the film version of Rattle and Hum.
• Julian Lennon did a cover of the song that was featured on the 1989 CD called Music from the Award Winning Show: The Wonder Years.
• The Swiss hard rock band Gotthard released it on their album One Life, One Soul.
• Nazareth.

• A snippet from this song plays a vital part in 1997 booker prize winning The God of Small Things

• Complete official lyrics