Edit 5d for headphones, June/December 2023. I colorized all the black and white parts of the official video, I also changed the intro (the walking with chains that went from right to left, while the music is from left to right). I also cleaned the video (things like hair on the filmer's lense).
Video of the ABKCOVEVO channel https://www.youtube.com/@ABKCOVEVO/videos
"We Love You" (official music video): https://youtu.be/lOf-0Mur7t4
Director: Peter Whitehead.
Cinematographer: Anthony B. Richmond.
(C) 2020 ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
Source of the edit is the compilation album: "Grrr!" (2012 super deluxe edition, label: Universal Music - catalog nr. 3719577).
Wikipedia says: "We Love You" embraces a strong anti-establishment attitude, proclaiming "we don't care if you hound we and lock the doors around we" and "you will never win we, your uniforms don't fit we." [Well, ruudtes says about the same to the music corporations...]
The song was a message from the band to their fans, expressing appreciation for support in the wake of their recent drug busts, yet it was also a slap in the faces of the police harassing them and the Stones' true feelings about this (as is represented by Jones' surreal Mellotron playing).
Mellotron and brass: Brian Jones. Piano: Nicky Hopkins. Lead vocals: Mick Jagger. Guitars: Keith Richards. Bass: Bill Wyman. Drums: Charlie Watts. Backing vocals: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Like in so many many songs in the early Stones era (t.e.s.e.) it was Brian Jones who did the trick of making this song stand out: studio engineer George Chkiantz said that even though there was a delay between hitting the note and the sound coming out of the Mellotron, Brian Jones managed to get "a tight rhythmic punch" for the track.
Originally filmed in 1967, the film has been newly restored in 4K. The "We Love You" video includes visual references to the infamous Redlands bust of February 1967, involving Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Marianne Faithfull, the subsequent criminal trial, as well as the drug bust of Brian Jones later that same year.
WE LOVE YOU
(Jagger/Richards)
we don't care if you'd only love we
we don't care if you'd 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
aaa h...
we don't care if you hound we
and lock the doors around we
locked it in our minds 'caus 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 are groovin' too
we love you, we do
we love you, we do
aaah... aaah... aaah... aaah...
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